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![[Air Force (Kuwait)]](../images/k/kw^af.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 24
June 2024See also:
Flag of the Air Force is cyan blue with its emblem in the center of the flag.
Zoltan Horvath, 24 June 2024
![[Air Force (Kuwait)]](../images/k/kw^af70.gif)
image by Martin Grieve
In the 1970s, the Air Force adopted a light blue flag with a yellow emblem an a quadricolor (black-red-white-green) roundel in the center.
Source: M. Lupant, Drapeaux et armoiries de l'Etat du Koweit, [lup99b], published in the Proceedings of the XVII International Congress of Vexillology [icv97]. Black and white illustrations.
Ivan Sache, 27 August 2002
![[Air Force 1962-197x (Kuwait)]](../images/k/kw^af62.gif)
image by Martin Grieve
The 1962 Air Force flag was similar but with a different emblem.
Source: ibid
Ivan Sache and Dov Gutterman, 27 August 2002
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f60.gif)
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f60e.jpg)
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 June 2024
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f61.gif)
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f61e.jpg)
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 June 2024
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f61v.gif)
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f61ve.jpg)
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 June 2024
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f61v2.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 25 June 2024
The Kuwait Air force roundel & fin flash variant 1961-1991 has an
inscription, which must be Kuwait Air Force in Arabic: القوات الجوية الكويتية
(al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya)
Zoltan Horvath, 25 June 2024
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f91.gif)
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f91e.jpg)
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 June 2024
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f91l.gif)
![[Aircraft marking]](../images/k/kw^f91l.jpg)
images by Zoltan Horvath, 25 June 2024
Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya was formed in 1961 and adopted a black-red-white-green roundel as seen on the flags above. [whe86] reported the roundel with an inscription on the bottom of the green stripe. I can't figure what is written in his image (a part of the first word is "al-Kweiti"). Cochrane & Elliott (1998) report that the inscription is "Kuwait" which is probably wrong. The national flag was the fin flash.
I guess that while on planes this inscription was omitted for being too small. I can't see a trace of it in
these
photos. Cochrane & Elliott (1998) stops in 1991, but the KAF was reformed after the Gulf War. However, no sight of the roundel any more, as planes use only the national flag as fin flash. See photos:
1, 2,
3,
4 and
5.
Dov Gutterman, 19 Jun 2004
A green-white-red-black roundel with a white inscription upon the lower part of the green circle. The transliteration of the inscription is (in German) silach al hauwalat li kuwaiti, literally meaning "airy/windy weapon for Kuwait" or lesss literally "Kuwait Air Force."
Source: David DONALD, Taschenhandbuch der Militärflugzeuge, ISBN 3-89880-122-5, p.176
Klaus-Michael Schneider and Jürgen Weidhüner, 12 Mar 2009
