Air Force (Lebanon)

Al Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Lubnamia – Force Aerienne Libanaise

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Formed in 1949, Al Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Lubnamia – Force Aerienne Libanaise is small and almost inactive.
Dov Gutterman, 19 Jun 2004

The Lebanese Armed Forces website has pictures of several service and military-regional flags here; click on a badge to view the corresponding flag. Nine are listed, including the Air Force Flag.
Eugene Ipavec, 10 Jul 2007

Roundel	Fin Flash
image by Ivan Sache and Eugene Ipavec	image by N.J. and Eugene Ipavec

Red disc with an inscribed white triangle pointing upwards, and a green disc within the triangle. Source: [Album des Pavillons 1995.
Ivan Sache, 02 Jul 1997

The green circle should be tangent to the sides of the white triangle. I have seen photos of planes with that sign on. This derives from the fact that the cedar must touch the upper and lower red stripes of the flag.
J.-M. Klat, 09 Sep 2001

In [Album des Pavillons 2000 the green disc touches the sides of the triangle. The version with smaller green disc (from one of the corrections to [Album des Pavillons 1990) is only an error, not found in [Cochrane and Elliott 1998.
A note in [Album des Pavillons 2000 explains that the national flag is painted on the fin.
Željko Heimer, 21 May 2002

From its start in 1949, Al Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Lubnamia – Force Aerienne Libanaise used the same roundel as currently. [c2e98] reports a rudder insignia made of national flag while [whe86] reports it as fin flash, but it is Yugoslav-like markings that can be seen on some planes here and here.
Dov Gutterman, 19 Jun 2004

The size of the green circle varies a fair bit; historical photos of FAL aircraft sometimes have it tangent to the sides of the triangle, sometimes notably smaller; see detail of photo.
Eugene Ipavec, 15 Mar 2007