Air forces of the world
The air forces of the world: their history, their bases and the aircraft they fly.
About the air forces
Shortly after the first powered flights, armies and navies started to use aircraft. In 1918 the Royal Air Force became the first independent air force in the world; today almost every country has its own air force, often with naval and army aviation next to it.
On these pages you find the air forces of the Aircrafttotal Encyclopedia: their history, facts and the aircraft they fly, taken straight from the Aircraft Database.
Choose a region below, or use the A–Z list to go straight to an air force.
American
The air forces of North and South America — and Australia, as on aircrafttotal.nl.
European
The air forces of Europe, Turkey and Israel.
- TATurkish Air Force1911
- KLuRoyal Netherlands Air ForceKLu · 1913
- SASwiss Air Force1914
- RAFRoyal Air ForceRAF · 1918
- AMItalian Air ForceAM · 1923
- SASwedish Air Force1926
- HAFHellenic Air ForceHAF · 1930
- FAFrench Air and Space Force1934
- SASpanish Air and Space Force1939
- BAFBelgian Air ComponentBAF · 1946
- IAFIsraeli Air ForceIAF · 1948
- GAGerman Air Force1956
Asia & others
The air forces of Asia and the rest of the world.
All air forces A–Z
Every air force on one list.
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