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Haiti - Aircraft Marking

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Aircraft Markings

Air corps roundel 1942-1964

  images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 11 June 2024

Air corps roundel 1964-1986

   images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 11 June 2024

Air corps roundel 1986-

  image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 11 June 2024

Haiti has no air force since 1994.
Dov Gutterman, 17 June 2004


According to a new book titled "Air markings of the world", published in Beijing China in Oct 2003 and supervised by Chinese Air Force political Committee, Haitian air marking is similar shape as US which is red/blue/white disc with two white arms. The red is double wide as blue and white.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 6 December 2003

Corps d'Aviation d'Garde d'Haiti was formed in 1942 or 1943. According to [c2e98], between 1943 and 1971 it used the upper (blue-red) version of the Previous Roundels and since 1971 changed the roundel to the current one.
Also according to [c2e98], at the era of the black-red flag, this was also reflected on the roundel. Therefore, since the black-red flag was introduced in 1964, Željko made the previous roundel in black version too. However, it seems that also the new roundel was used with the black color instead of the blue, and I got three reasons to think that:
1) The black-red flag was in use until 1986, so when the roundel was adopted in 1971 it was probably black to begin with.
2) [cos98] show it in black ([whe86] show it in blue).
3) Photo at www.airliners.net/469904
As seen also at [whe86] and the photo, the red internal disc is bigger then reported by [c2e98], which seems to report a wrong roundel.
Haiti has no air force since 1994.
Dov Gutterman, 17 June 2004

Roy Braybrook [byb85] also show the roundel on top with black and not blue and with larger inner disc.
Dov Gutterman, 6 July 2004

The sidebars were added to US markings in June 1943. It is logical that the sidebars were add to the Haiti markings not before the US markings, so not before June 1943.
First military aircraft – Douglas O-38E – was delivered to the Haiti corps one year before, in June 1942.
Does anybody know something about the roundels in 1942 – 1943?
The page www.laahs.com mention red-white-black roundel, similar to French roundel (black central circle instead of blue) but nothing else.
Willy Weiglhofer, 5 November 2008

Reported (Wrong) Markings in Book

image by Željko Heimer, 31 October 2001