Ciidamada Cirka Soomaaliyeed/ุงูููุงุช ุงูุฌููุฉ ุงูุตูู ุงููุฉ
Coat of arms of the Somali Air Force
Founded
1960; 64 years ago (1960)
Country
Somalia
Part of
Somali Armed Forces
Garrison/HQ
Afsione, Mogadishu
Motto(s)
Somali: Isku Tiirsada "Lean Together"
Ensign
Engagements
1964 EthiopianโSomali Border War
Shifta War
Ogaden War
1982 EthiopianโSomali Border War
Somali Civil War
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Chief of the Armed Forces
Brigadier 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
Flag of the Air Force
Military unit
The Somali Air Force (SAF; Somali: Ciidamada Cirka Soomaaliyeed, Osmanya: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, CCS; Arabic: ุงูููุงุช ุงูุฌููุฉ ุงูุตูู ุงููุฉ, Al-Qลซwฤt al-Gawwฤซyรค as-แนขลซmฤlฤซyรค) is the air force of Somalia. Called the Somali Aeronautical Corps (SAC) during its pre-independence period (1954โ1960), the Somali Air Force was renamed as such 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 first 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, (รditions Afrique Asie Amรฉrique 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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