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Laotian Aircraft Markings

Last modified: 2024-08-10 by zachary harden
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[Laos Aircraft marking] image by Zachary Harden, 11 February 2019


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Current marking

A Yakovlev Yak-130 was spotted in a 2019 military parade with brand new markings on the tail and wings. This new roundel is the design of the national flag put into a circular pattern with the same ratios as the national flag.
Zachary Harden, 11 February 2019


Previous marking

[Laos Aircraft marking] image by Željko Heimer

Virtually the same as the national flag. Military Aircraft Insignia of the World [cos98] claims it is the flag painted on the planes, however it is once shown in slanted position.
Željko Heimer, 4 April 2002


Fin Flash and Roundel, 1955-75

[Laos Aircraft marking] image by Zachary Harden, 16 April 2019

According to Cochrane & Elliot Military Aircraft Insignia of the World [cos98] before the Pathet Lao took over (1975), the Aviation Royale Laotienne (formed in 1955) used a roundel based on the national flag of that era: the central device in white on red disc bordered in white. see http://www.aircommandos.org/BobAndDon/Episode0000-0016.jpg They also used a fin flash of the national flag of the time- red with white elephants under a parasol (monarchy) that is upon five steps (five first commandments of Buddhism), and on the wings & fuselage used red roundels with the same symbol.
Dov Gutterman, 9 February 2000 and 19 June 2004

[Flag of Laos] image by Zoltan Horvath, 25 June 2024

This picture shows a variant of aircraft marking of royal era. This plane is now in private property, but the original marking kept on the side of the airplane.
Zoltan Horvath, 25 June 2024