Odznaky královského letectva

Yugoslav aviation badges
Letački indicates Ratnog zrakoplovstva

With the badges of the royal air force of the Yugoslav army to find out quite often, or in the framework of the so-called "Little entente" with these badges were given to our collections. Another fact is that this company was the Carnet and Sour Prague, badges for the need of the Yugoslav air force was produced .

In the interwar period, when the common actions of the air force of Romania-Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia are these badges as "honor" awarded to members of the air force of the countries of the " Little entente ".

We do not here deal with the history of the air force of Yugoslavia, this shows interesting faleristických objects which are still occasionally encountered .

Another company, which badges produced was a workshop Sorlini of Varaždína. Additional badges are the product of the Croatian company Knaus Zagreb .

We distinguish the following badges :

l. Badge pilot ( The pilot ) - figure no l

2. Badge for the observer ( Character izvidača )-figure no 2
3. Badge mechanics ( Character mehaničara )-figure no 3
4. Badge for the auxiliary air staff - (Character poslužitelj zrakoplova ) -figure no 4

This badge is, however, exceedingly rare, and some even Serbian or Croatian faleristé of the existence of the badge doubt. Other faleristé this badge belongs to the odznakům for the pilots of the balloons .-

Badges in the original I am very well minted, it is always about the silver decoration, especially when the badges produced by the Carnet, and Acid stand out for their precision .

If you closely look at the Yugoslav badges after 1950, it is certain that your pattern to the original royal decorations . Only the royal koruná is replaced by a red pěticípu star and the emblem of the SHS ( kingdom of Serbs-Croats and Slovenians ) is replaced by the state emblem of Yugoslavia .
As honorable and gift badges have been used in the case of decorating their fellow officers or doplomatů . In this case, the badges are made of gold purity 585/1000 . Such a badge is situated in a private collection in Prague .

Literature :
P.Car-T. Muchič : Catalog odlikovanja i znakovlja Srbije i Jugoslavije 1858 - 1941.

Naval Aviation Pilot Badge
Airmen badge of the Naval Air Force Rat Navy

Members of this specialized aviation detachment were subordinate to the full naval command .

The badges are identical to the aviation badges we described in the introductory section, but are supplemented with a naval anchor ( see picture ) .

We know the naval pilot's badge as the original. However, other badges are appearing in the offer of various dealers, but they are only a novelty to deceive collectors. One such badge is presented here.

Among the manufacturers of the badge are again the company Sorlini from Varaždin and the Prague company Karnet and Kyselý .

The literature is given in the introductory part of the article .