Civil Air Flag (UK)

Last modified: 1997-09-03 by filip van laenen
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from Roy Stilling, 1995-DEC-15

• Description and use of the flag

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• United Kingdom
• RAF Flag

One British Ensign which sadly has more-or-less fallen into disuse (I've never seen it flying) is the Civil Air Ensign. This was intended to be flown at airports and from landed British aircraft as an equivalent of the Red Ensign for merchant ships. Its field was light blue (strictly the shade known in the UK as "air force blue" as it is used in the ensign of the Royal Air Force) with a dark blue cross, fimbriated white, overall. The Union Flag was in the canton. I believe both Australia and New Zealand had variations with their Southern Crosses on it (he Australian one had the SC at quite an unusual angle). Could any of our antipodean members comment on whether theirs are still used much?

Roy Stilling, 1995-DEC-15