Back القوات الجوية الصومالية Arabic Força Aèria de Somàlia Catalan نیروی هوایی سومالی Persian Angkatan Udara Somalia ID Aeronautica militare somala Italian Somalijskie Siły Powietrzne Polish Военно-воздушные силы Сомали Russian Ciidanka Cirka Soomaaliya Somali
| Somali Air Force | |
|---|---|
| Ciidamada Cirka Soomaaliyeed/القوات الجوية الصومالية | |
 Coat of arms of the Somali Air Force | |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Country |  Somalia |
| Part of | Somali Armed Forces |
| Garrison/HQ | Afsione, Mogadishu |
| Motto(s) | Somali: Isku Tiirsada "Lean Together" |
| Ensign | |
| Engagements | |
| Commanders | |
| Commander-in-Chief | President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud |
| Chief of the Armed Forces | Major General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh |
| Chief of the Air Force | Brigadier General Mohamud Sheikh Ali |
| Notable commanders | Brigadier General Ali Matan Hashi |
| Insignia | |
| Roundel |  |
| Fin Flash | .svg) |
| Flag of the Air Force |  |
The Somali Air Force (SAF; Somali: Ciidamada Cirka Soomaaliyeed, Osmanya: 𐒋𐒕𐒆𐒖𐒑𐒖𐒆𐒖 𐒋𐒘𐒇𐒏𐒖 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒜𐒆, CCS; Arabic: القوات الجوية الصومالية, Al-Qūwāt al-Gawwīyä as-Ṣūmālīyä) is the air force of Somalia. Called the Somali Aeronautical Corps (SAC) during its pre-independence period (1954–1960), it was renamed as Somali Air Force (SAF) after Somalia gained independence in 1960. Ali Matan Hashi, Somalia's first pilot and person principally responsible for organizing the SAF, was its founder and served as its the country's first air chief.[1] At one point, the Somali Air Force had the strongest airstrike capability in the Horn of Africa.[2] But by the time President Siad Barre fled Mogadishu in 1991, it had completely collapsed. The SAF headquarters was technically reopened in 2015.[3]
- ^ Luigi Pestalozza, The Somalian Revolution, (Éditions Afrique Asie Amérique latine: 1974), p.27.
- ^ The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa: the diplomacy of intervention and Disengagement by Robert G Patman – p. 184
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