WORLD AIR FORCE ROUNDELS

Belgian F-35A with full color roundels

1st F-35 for Poland. 1st official low vis gray “roundel”

2 brand new HAL 228s for Guyana

A bit of fun today. The Black Rock City Air Force.   At the pop up airport of Black Rock City during the Burning man festival.

Cessna 170.

Germany 1913/1914 black stripe

South Sudan only seen on the Mi-24

the PNGDF now also have Low-vis roundels 

Tartarstan

Kosovo recieves ca 5 Turkish Bayraktar TB2. On the drone the national flag and a new roundel.

Kingdom of Yemen 1919-1962

Belarus Ministery of Ermengency

Not a real roundel but the symbol of the Iraq Air Force academy 

Talking bout Australia, ever seen this one? The Hutt River Principality

(might be a repost)

Sorry didn’t do checking with your website to see you already had it.

My post is Piper Tomahawk yours is Pa-28 Warrior but a better picture than I have. 

Thanks Chris

here a Piper Tomahawk with the same roundel. 

Don’t know if you seen this one. AAFC Australian Air Force Cadets.

Chris

George C. Kuntz

To complete the story of these Fokker S.11.2 ex Israel: During the Winter of 1961/1962 Dutch/American airline pilot Geert E. Frank bought a batch of 10 to 15 used former IDFAF S.11.2 Instructors from BEDEK (IAI), so far all unidentified. They were shipped to the Netherlands, but ended up on a quay in Hamburg (Germany). While stored there in the open, there were hit by a severe storm, which damaged them all. Because of the damage they lost their value for the civil aircraft market.

In 1962 parts of two ex Israeli S.11 arrived at Teuge airfield (close to Zutphen), where they were stored in a shed.

Mr. J.C. Pilaar, a businessman from Zutphen and at that moment already owner of S.11.1 PH-UET, had brought these two from Hamburg. Some more of S.11.2 from this Hamburg batch were stored at his cement factory in Zutphen.

It is posible that Mr. Pilaar bought them directly from Mr. Frank, but more plausible is that Mr. C. Honcoop was involved in this sale seen the close business relationship Mr. Frank and Mr. Honcoop had (see below).

The intention of Mr. Pilaar was to overhaul and repair the two damaged S.11 at Teuge, but his mechanics at Teuge were not very enthusiastic. In the end the repair was dismissed, useful parts were sold and the remaining rests were scrapped.

Also the other stored S.11.2 from Mr Pilaar, those at his factory in Zutphen, disappeared and were most probably scrapped.

However in 1971 a former Israeli S.11.2 was discovered in storage with Mr. C(ees). Honcoop at Veen (north of Waalwijk). Mr. Honcoop ran a trading company which also involved 2nd hand civil aircraft.

The involved S.11.2 came originally from the batch at Hamburg and in 1962 Mr. Honcoop had bought it, together with another unidentified one, directly from Mr. Frank, the original owner of the Hamburg batch.

At first this S.11.2 was stored in a shed used by Honcoop at a milk factory near Alkmaar and later it was stored in a shed with a farmer at Koedijk also near Alkmaar. In 1968 it was transferred to Honcoop´s own storage at Veen, where it was photographed on 28 October 1971 by Fred Roos, the writer of the S.11 book. This aircraft was finally scrapped somewhere during 1974/1975. NB: There had indeed been the intention by Israel to deliver some S.11 to Ghana around 1959, but the deal was never closed, although some aircraft were being in overhaul for this purpose. The photo with the two fuselages and wings on the trailer is from summer 1962.

Someting new and weird!! Pictures from the 1950’s showing Fokker S-11 trainers with a black star on white roundel. Story goes that these were ex-Israel with destination to Ghana. Israel already painted the roundels. A few aircraft ended up in the Netherlands after being damaged during transport, see pictures.

But.. Ghana used a black star as finflash but not on a white field. A weird story!! Good for us as it is a new roundel

Austrian Heimwehr Fliegerkorps. One of the least known of paramilitary air forces must surely be that of the 
Austrian Heimwehr Fliegerkorps during the 1920s and 1930s. Formed from earlier paramilitary flying groups, 
the Heimwehr Fliegerkorps operated a selection of German, Austrian and British aircraft, and even participated 
during the Austrian Civil War of February 1934. The Heimwehr symbol appears on the rudder, and consists of a 
White bird (Eagle) on a Green disc, superimposed on an Austrian flag with horizontal Red/White/Red stripes.

In 1919 the peace treaty meant the Republic of Austria was forbidden to operate military aircraft. In 1927 the 
paramilitary Heimwehr organisation set up an air corps using Austrian, British and Italian aircraft 
(dissolved after the Anschluss in 1938). Its emblem was a red-white-red flag, with a white eagle on a 
green circle at its centre.

Islamic Emirate Air Force (i.e. the Taliban) Mi-25, Kunduz airport, November 2022. That slightly weird looking insignia is simply a sticker of the Taliban crest placed over the old AAF roundel.