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The Forţele Aeriene Regale ale României (Royal Romanian Air Force), or simply Forţele Aeriene Române (Romanian Air Force) was the Air Arm of Royal Romanian forces in WWII. It provided support to land forces, carrying out reconnaissance missions, and mounting air raids between other missions in all combat fronts.
   The insignia of the FARR was a cross in the fuselage and upper and lower wings, and the national colours on the tail, with a yellow engine cowling and vertical band on the fuselage. It was later changed at tricolor (red-yellow-purple) roundels on the fuselage and wings, and a tricolor band on the tail.
   They flew aircraft from Germany and Italy, with their own and other foreign aircraft, as well as captured enemy aircraft. The Romanian Air Force fight against the Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légierö (Hungarian Air Force) during the Hungarian annexation of Transylvania. The most basic unit of their formations was the Grupul.
   The Romanian Air Force fought alongside the Luftwaffe during the advance into the Ukraine and Crimea, until the Battle of Stalingrad, when the Southern Luftwaffe Command was installed in Bucharest. It also carried out some reconnaissance and patrol missions over the Black Sea alongside Bulgarian units also.
   The Romanian Air Force was also tasked with the air defence of the Ploieşti oil installations, and also Bucharest against Allied air raids, and to protect Axis convoys in the Black Sea. These units fought against the USAAF and RAF during their raids against Romania.
   The main models of aircraft used include the PZL P.24F, Hawker Hurricane Heinkel He 112, Messerschmitt 109E and G types, Messerschmitt 110 (for night defence), IAR 80A were used too, alongside other types of interceptors used by the Luftwaffe units in area.
   When the country was invaded by Soviet forces, the King Mihai I (Michael) ordered Romanian forces to attack Axis forces, and the FARR was allied with Soviet Voenno-vozdushniye Sily against German and Hungarian forces in Transylvania and Slovakia, though some units continued to fight with the Axis in Luftwaffe volunteer units.

Romanian Air Aces

Horia Agarici
Constantin Cantacuzino
Cristea Chirvăsuţă
Ion Di Cesare
Tudor Greceanu
Ioan Maga
Ioan Mălăcescu
Ion Milu
Ioan Mucenica
Constantin Lungulescu
Alexandru Şerbănescu

Units of Royal Romanian Air Force

Grupul 3° Picaj, Corpul 2° Aerien, Luftflotte 4, South Russia Front, Winter of 1943-44.

Grupul 3° Picaj, Corpul 1° Aerien, Cioara, Dolcesti, Romania August 1944; under orders of Luftwaffe, Luftflotte Kommando 4 with commands in Debrecen, Hungary

Grupul (added), Corpul 1° Aerien, Romania, Slovakian Front, January 1945

Local government and private aircraft companies

Brasov

Industria Aeronautica Romana (IAR)

Interprendere Pentru Contructii Aeronautice Romane (ICAR)

Sociatatea Pentru Exploatari Technice (SET) Aircraft constructed under foreign license

Heinkel He 111 H (30 examples by Brasov)

Messerschmitt Bf 109G (16 examples by Brasov)

Savoia-Marchetti SM.79JR (16 examples by Brasov)

PZL P.11f (80 examples by IAR)

PZL P.24E (50 examples by IAR)

IAR 36 (Messerschmitt design) (5 examples by IAR)

Enemy aircraft interned or captured

Lublin R-XIIID (interned)

PWS 26 (interned)

PZL P.7a (interned)

PZL P.11c (interned)

PZL P.23B Karas A (interned)

PZL P.23B Karas B (interned)

PZL P.24F (interned)

PZL P.37B Los B (interned)

(D.W.L.) RWD-8 (interned)

(D.W.L.) RWD-13 (interned)

(D.W.L.) RWD-14 Czapla (interned)

Lockheed Model 10 Electra (interned)

Consolidated B-24D Liberator (captured)

Polikarpov U-2VS (Po-2) (captured)

Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 (captured)

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 (captured)

Lavochkin La-7 (captured)

Aircraft of RRAF

Arado Ar 96B-5

Arado Ar 196A-3

Fieseler Fi 156C-2

Fieseler Fi 167A-0

Focke-Wulf Fw 44C Stieglitz

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3

Focke-Wulf Fw 58C Weihe

Gotha Go 242A-1

Heinkel He 111H-3

Heinkel He 112B-0

Heinkel He 112B-1

Heinkel He 114A-2

Henschel Hs 129B-2

Junkers W 34h

Junkers Ju 52/3m g7e

Junkers Ju 87B

Junkers Ju 87D-1

Junkers Ju 87D-3

Junkers Ju 87D-5

Junkers Ju 88A-4

Junkers Ju 88D-1

Klemm Kl 35D

Messerschmitt Bf 108B Taifun

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-8

Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4a

Avia BH-25J

Avia B-534.IV

Bloch MB.200

Bloch MB.210 BN5

Dewoitine D.27

Potez 543

Potez 631 C1

Potez 633 Romain

Potez 633 Franco-Romain

Potez 63.11

Potez 651

Bristol Blenheim Mk.I

Hawker Hurricane Mk.I

Gloster Gladiator Mk.I

De Havilland Gipsy Moth

Nardi FN.315

Savoia-Marchetti SM.62bis

Savoia-Marchetti SM.79B Sparviero

Savoia-Marchetti SM.79JR Sparviero

IAR 36

IAR 37

IAR 38

IAR 80A

IAR 81

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