Aircraft marking (Uganda)

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by Jarig Bakker, 27 Jun 2004

• Aircraft marking

• Uganda

Aircraft marking

[cos98] report that a small Police Air Wing was operative between 1962 and 1964 and used the national flag as fin flash. In 1964 the Ugandan Air Force was formed.

The story of the Ugandan Air Force is in a great deal the story of Idi Amin. The former sergeant-major in the British Territorial Army and boxing champion, became Chief of Staff in 1965 and invited Israel Air Force to help create the UAF. the IAF sent 9 training planes (C.M 170) and instructors.
The honorablr CoS was invited to Israel and invited to do a quick parchuting course. He had one jump and refused to do it again, but got his wings which were always on his sparkling uniforms. In 1971 he led a coup d'état and took control of the countrye. He immediately asked the IAF for advanced fighters for his airforce, and that request was declined he turned to Libya which supplied him with no les then 44 MiG's (17 &21), which spent most of their time on the ground due to lack of pilots and maintenance. However, those MiG's were used by him to attack Tanzania in 1972.
On 4 July 1976, during operation "Kadur ha'Ra'am" (Thunderbolt) later to called "Mivtza Yehonathan" (Operation Jonathan, after Lt.Col. Yhonathan Netanyahu who commanded it and was killed in the process), the Israeli troops destroyed 11 of these MiG's to prevent any danger to the IAF cargo planes.
Two years later, he was removed from office, and Uganda AF came back to be a small force of light planes and helicopters....
In 1964, the UAF adopted a roundel made of inner black disc cha