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Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign

flag of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ105805519 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign is the official flag which is used to represent the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The ensign has a field of air force blue with the Union Jack in the canton and the Royal New Zealand Air Force's roundel in the middle of the fly. It is based on the British Royal Air Force Ensign with the letters "NZ" superimposed in white over the red central disc of the roundel.

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The public source identifies “Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign” as flag of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Royal, Zealand and Force.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 77-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Royal, Zealand and Force providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.