![[FAP flag]](../images/p/pt^fa.gif)
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During the commemeorations of the 50th jubilee of the Portuguese
Air Force was seen a medium blue flag charged in the top hoist with the
main charge of the Portuguese Air Force coat of arms and it’s motto
scroll. I never seen that flag before — it may be or may be not an
offcial flag. During the commemorative period (June 2002) it shown in many
“civilian” situations — displayed alternately with the
national flag and the commemorative flag all round some
plazas (f.i., Praça do Relógio, in Lisbon)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 Juyl 2002
![[FAP flag]](../images/p/pt^fa!v.gif)
by António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 2002
A vertical variant of this flag is visible in the background of a
parade on this
photo at the FAP website. (In this photo is also visible a
portuguese military color, here added with an
additional motto scroll.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 2002
![[FAP CoA]](../images/p/pt^fa).gif)
The emblem of the air force is a golden eagle (with wings spread)
in a blue field.
João Madureira, 4 May 1998
The Portuguese Air Force coat of arms is azure an eagle displayed
or armed gules, portuguese aviation crown (golden with two visible
Christ Knight’s crosses, alternated with
three visible golden wing pairs), and white scroll with black motto
«Ex mero motu» («by its own motion»?).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 2002
The emblem of the air force is a golden eagle (with wings spread)
in a blue field.
João Madureira, 4 May 1998
![[FAP old flag]](../images/p/pt^af.gif)
Description of flag:
It is a dark blue square flag with a badge in its centre.
![[FAP old flag]](../images/p/pt^af).gif)
Description of badge:
It is the shield of the national coat of arms, surrounded by a leafy garland, probably of laurel and topped by a golden eagle upon a golden armillary sphere, spreading his wings.
Source: Pedersen 1979; p. 191
Klaus-Michael Schneider and António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 Mar 2009
So here are my imagess of the rank flags. The flags came in two sizes,
0.50m x 0.60m or 0.25m x 0.30m, except for that of the Commandant of
an Air Region/Air Zone, which were 0.50m x 0.50m or 0.25m x 0.25m.
Source: J. Sobral's blog
![[Secretary of State of Aeronautics (1961-1978) (PT)]](../images/p/pt^ssae.gif)
Blue field, with a golden flying eagle at the centre, surrounded by five "silver" (de facto white) five-pointed stars.
It had been the flag of the Subsecretary of State of Aeronautics from 1960 to 61.
Miles Li, 25 Aug 2010
![[Air Force Chief of Staff (1960-1978) (PT)]](../images/p/pt^csaf.gif)
Blue field, with a golden flying eagle at the centre, above four
"silver" (de facto white) five-pointed stars forming an arc.
Miles Li, 25 Aug 2010
![[Air Force Vice Chief of Staff (1960-78) (PT)]](../images/p/pt^vcsaf.gif)
White saltire on blue field, with a golden flying eagle at the centre,
above (in case of a general) three "silver" (de facto white)
five-pointed stars forming an arc, or (in case of a brigadier) two
stars arranged horizontally.
Miles Li, 25 Aug 2010
![[Air Force Director of Services (1960-1978) (PT)]](../images/p/pt^dsaf.gif)
Blue saltire on white field, with a golden flying eagle at the centre,
above (in case of a general) three "silver" (de facto white)
five-pointed stars forming an arc, or (in case of a brigadier) two
stars arranged horizontally.
Miles Li, 25 Aug 2010
![[Commandant of an Air Region/Air Zone (1960-1978) (PT)]](../images/p/pt^cdtaz.gif)
A square version of the standard of a specific Air Region or Air Zone,
with one to three "silver"" (de facto white) five-pointed stars in the
canton according to rank.
Miles Li, 25 Aug 2010
![[FAP 2002 flag]](../images/p/pt^af50.gif)
Recently, in June this year, the Portuguese Air Force completed 50 years and a commemorative logo was extensively used, i.a. in a logo-on-bedsheet flag, often used in “civilian” situations — displayed alternately with the national flag and the Portuguese Air Force flag all round some plazas (f.i., Praça do Relógio, in Lisbon), or hoisted bellow the very big national flag in the Vasco da Gama Tower (in Lisbon).
The commemorative logo is inscribed in a circle, with a medium blue contour showing three thrusting fighter planes and the figure 50, plus counterchanged letterings «Força Aérea Portuguesa», «anos» and «1952-2002»; centered overall, on a white disc, the Christ Knight’s cross, which is also the Portuguese Air Force roundel marking.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 2002
![[AFA flag]](../images/p/pt^afa.gif)
Guidon of the portuguese Air Force Academy, a higher education
institution where future officers are bread.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 Jun 2004
The flag is in blue, gold, and black, with the arms of the Academy
(the air force golden eagle with spread wings plus
two open books in gold in the chief), surrounded by a white circle bearing
the motto «E não menos por armas que por letras»
— roughly meaning «And not less by weapons as by books»,
and the initals "AFA" in white and black in each of the four corners.
João Madureira, 23 Apr 2003
