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were painted on the tail. According to Axis regulations, the engine cowling, the under-surfaces of the wingtips and a vertical band on the fuselage ahead of the tail were painted in yellow. After Romania joined the Allies, the crosses were changed back to the tricolor roundels on the fuselage and
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All of the aircraft listed below were completed before the end of World War II. Prototypes are omitted from the list. Unless specified otherwise, all aircraft machine guns have the caliber of 7.92 mm:
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Bernád, Dénes (May 1999). "Histoire des forces aeriennes royales roumaines pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale" [History of the Royal Romanian Air Force During the Second World War].
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Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (February 1990). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945 (6)" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 6].
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Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (December 1989). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945 (4)" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 4].
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Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (November 1989). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945 (3)" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 3].
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Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (January 1990). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945 (5)" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 5].
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Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (October 1989). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945 (2)" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 2].
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Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (March 1990). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945 (7)" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 7].
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Passingham, Malcolm; Noël, Jean (April 1990). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945 (8)" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 8].
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which engaged two Romanian Bf 109s together with another Yak-3, was also shot down on 4 May 1945. The victory was not officially credited in Romanian documents.
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Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (September 1989). "Les avions militaires roumains de 1910 à 1945" [Romanian Military Aircraft from 1910 to 1945].
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of Romania. During World War Two, from 1941 to 1944, the national cockade was reduced in size and placed in the center of a four-M cross, the seal of King
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Bernád, Dénes (June 1999). "Histoire des forces aeriennes royales roumaines pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale".
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fighters. On 28 August 1940, a Heinkel flown by Lieutenant Nicolae Polizu-Micșunești shot down a Hungarian
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in Romania. Also, some Soviet aircraft were captured during World War II, as well as a few American
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Axworthy, Mark (September–October 1999). "Flank Guard: Romania's Advance on Stalingrad, Part Two".
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in 1940. Following some Hungarian incursions into Romanian airspace, the 51st Fighter Squadron of
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with the Germans over Bucharest, the ARR claimed 22 German aircraft shot down, including three
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The ARR records did not differentiate between aircraft shot down by fighters or by AA fire.
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wings, and the yellow markings were painted white as "Allied identification markings".
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Marking used by the Air Force, and the Army from 1 May 1941 to 3 September 1944.
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Bernád, Dénes (July 1999). "Courrier des Lecteurs" [Readers' Letters].
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Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945
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Aircraft manufactured in Romania from 1924 until the end of World War II
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Roundel used for aircraft and vehicles from 1924 to 1941, 1944 to 1950.
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The ARR was first established on 1 January 1924 from the previous
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List of aircraft of the Romanian Air Force § Interwar period
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Number of aircraft finished before the end of the war not known.
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11th Fighter Squadron - 52nd Fighter Squadron from October 1939
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to supplement the 2nd Fighter Flotilla equipped with the older
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List of aircraft of the Romanian Air Force § World War II
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2 x 13.2 mm FN Browning heavy machine gun (10 of them)
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List of aircraft of the Romanian Air Force § Interned
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convoys in the Black Sea. These units fought against the
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Teodor Liviu Moroșanu; Dan Melinte (30 November 2010).
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Aircraft constructed under foreign license or assembled
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units. The ARR was tasked with the air defence of the
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Ion Gudju; Gheroghe Iacobescu; Ovidiu Ionescu (1974).
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111th, 112th, 113th, 115th, 116th Liaison Squadrons (
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German aircraft in Romania - Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
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