Romania: Aircraft Markings

Romānia

Last modified: 2004-08-07 by rob raeside
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A roundel of red-yellow-blue. According to Cochrane & Elliott (1998) this roundel has been used from 1985 onwards.

The history of the roundels is:

• 1913-1915 red-blue-yellow roundel (with YBR "flag" on the fin- why would it be so that late?)
• 1915-1941 red-yellow-blue roundel (with BYR "flag" on the fin)
• 1941-1944 red-yellow-blue roundel on yellow swallow-tailed cross bordered blue (with BYR "flag" on the fin)
• 1944-1947 as 1915-1941
• 1947-1985 red five-pointed star bordered yellow with yellow-blue roundel in the middle, same emblem on the fin
• 1985-on:  red-yellow-blue roundel, same emblem on the fin

Zeljko Heimer, 22 December 2002

Cochrane & Elliott (1998) show 5 plates for Romania:

• 1913-1918 - roundel (from inside-out) - yellow blue-red. Rudder stripes (inside out) - the same [as Corpul Aerian Romana]
• 1915-1941 and 1944-1947 - roundel - blue-yellow red (same as today). Rudder stripes - same order of colors [before the war as Aeronautica Militara
  Romania and Fortelor Aeriene Regal ale Romania]. See photo: http://www.paulnann.com/images/pn_w3738.jpg
• 1941-1944 - small roundel in the center of a yellow cross bordered black. Rudder stripe same as before but only on half of it. [images show also full rudder stripes and no stripes at all). See: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tozu/me109/foreign/109-romania.htm, http://www.frenkenstein.com/ww2/romania/Romania.htm and
  http://www.worldwar2.ro/arr/.
• 1947-1985 - 5 points red star bordered yellow charged in the center with small blue disc rounded by yellow ring. [as Fortele Aeriene Militare ale Republicii Populare Romine]. See photo: http://www.paulnann.com/images/pn_w3739.jpg.
• 1985 - today - the 1915 roundel and also used as fin flash. [as Fortele Aeriene Romāne] See:
  Romania AF site - http://www.roaf.ro/ro/index.htm
  http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/rom/romaf2.htm
  http://www.deltawing.go.ro/
  http://www.arrow-aviation.nl/rom_home.html
  http://www.scramble.nl/ro.htm

Dov Gutterman, 22 June 2004

1985-on roundel

1947-1985 roundel (Communist era)

1941-1944 roundel

See also:

• Romania
• Romania: Index of all pages