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Aircraft Marking

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Aircraft Marking

Barbados Defense force Air wing roundel 2022-onward. The Regional Security System became 8 members in 2022.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 17 April 2024

1985-2022 Roundel

images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 17 April 2024

Barbados used a logo of the Regional Security System, by international agreement for the eastern Caribbean countries whose base is located at Grantley Adams Airport, Barbados. The seven axles represented the seven members.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 17 April 2024

The BDF has not had aircraft since 1985. The coast guard does and has an emblem like https://x.com/Southcom/status/1793654699989831890 andhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/25695066@N00/4137163305 on the aircraft. After some digging, it turns out the symbol is https://www.rss.org.bb/
Zachary Harden,29 July 2024

Earlier Roundel

image by Željko Heimer, 24 Febuary 2001

According to Album 2000 [pay00] Aircraft Marking. - It's roundel maybe described best by blazoning (though it is not a Coat of Arms) - "Or a Hurt and a Chief Azure". The shades are of the national flag.
Željko Heimer, 24 February 2001

Why this design? I would think that a yellow disc with a blue border and a black trident would be more obvious.
Ole Andersen, 2 August 2002

Both Military Aircraft Insignia of the World [c2e98] and & www.skytamer.com& reports only the use of the national flag as a fin flash.
Dov Gutterman, 12 June 2004

Encyclopaedia Universalis Yearbook lists for 1995 a contingent of 610 men (82% Army and 18% Navy). Therefore, there does not seem to be a separate Air Force in Barbados.
Ivan Sache, 13 June 2004

Seems that not entirely correct. According to & www.scramble.nl & , Barbados is the base of the planes of Organization of Eastern Caribbean States - Regional Security System Air Wing. However, according to photos, the planes have no marking beside registration numbers.
Dov Gutterman, 1 July 2004

Oddly enough, Roy Braybrook [byb85] show the same roundel reported by Album 2000 (while in [whe86], which was published only a year afterwards, there is no entry for Barbados and [c2e98] report other marking).
Dov Gutterman, 6 July 2004