New Zealand, Australian and United Kingdom Military Aircrew Wings, Brevets and Other Flying Badges
This collection covers wings and brevets awarded to aircrew who successfully complete aircrew and category training. It also covers flying badges awarded to mission crew.
Aircrew, Mission Crew or Flight Crew? Aircrew are considered essential crew for the operational flight of the aircraft and are carried on most, if not all flights. Whereas Mission Crew are not aircrew and are carried as required to perform duties to complete individual missions the aircraft has been tasked with. Depending on the country and tasks involved, mission crew may also be known as Flight Crew (e.g. Air Despatcher) and may be Ground Crew whose role has an airborne component to their ground trade (e.g. Flight Nurse).
Wings, Brevets or Flying Badges? Aircrew wings have referred to flying badges that have wings extending out either side of a central monogram and have traditionally been awarded to pilots, though some militaries (Canada for example) also award wings to some non-pilot aircrew categories. Brevet was the common term used to describe the half wing badges (wing extending other one side of the monogram) awarded to non-pilot aircrew though it was unknown were or how the term came into usage. Late 2019 the RAF confirmed that brevet was an unofficial term, and that 'flying badge' was the official term to be used. RAAF and RNZAF still use the term brevet.
Currently this collection mainly covers the following services: Royal New Zealand Air Force, New Zealand Army, Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, Canadian Force, Royal Air Force, British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
Aircrew, Mission Crew or Flight Crew? Aircrew are considered essential crew for the operational flight of the aircraft and are carried on most, if not all flights. Whereas Mission Crew are not aircrew and are carried as required to perform duties to complete individual missions the aircraft has been tasked with. Depending on the country and tasks involved, mission crew may also be known as Flight Crew (e.g. Air Despatcher) and may be Ground Crew whose role has an airborne component to their ground trade (e.g. Flight Nurse).
Wings, Brevets or Flying Badges? Aircrew wings have referred to flying badges that have wings extending out either side of a central monogram and have traditionally been awarded to pilots, though some militaries (Canada for example) also award wings to some non-pilot aircrew categories. Brevet was the common term used to describe the half wing badges (wing extending other one side of the monogram) awarded to non-pilot aircrew though it was unknown were or how the term came into usage. Late 2019 the RAF confirmed that brevet was an unofficial term, and that 'flying badge' was the official term to be used. RAAF and RNZAF still use the term brevet.
Currently this collection mainly covers the following services: Royal New Zealand Air Force, New Zealand Army, Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, Canadian Force, Royal Air Force, British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Marines.