Army Air Corps AAC Patch Pilot Qualification Wing 1

AAC Army Air Corps Pilot Qualification Wing Brevet 1 Army Flying Badge Flat 1980s Uniform removed Embroidered on wool 40mm by 95mm one and nine sixteenth inches by three and three quarter inches. 

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History 1942-2013

On 11 April 1942 Army Council Instructions 768 approved an Army Flying Badge to be worn by Air Observation Post and Glider Pilot Regiment pilots. It was a pair of pale blue wings with the Royal Crest superimposed in the centre, the whole upon a black background or as it was less formally known, the Lion with Blue Wings.

On 8 September 1948 Army Council Instructions 808 approved a special flying badge for Air Observation Post officer pilots to wear, instead of the Army Flying Badge. It was to be a pair of pale blue wings with a grenade and scroll beneath in old gold bearing the motto UBIQUE Latin for Everywhere superimposed in the centre in red, the whole on a black background.

The original Army Flying Badge was altered in 1953, to incorporate the Queens Crown to reflect the accession to the throne and subsequent coronation, of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Army Dress Committee instructed on 16 July 1957 that the Army Flying Badge was to be worn by all qualified pilots of the Army Air Corps and the Air Observation Post pilot badge was no longer to be worn.

This wing patch dates from the 1980s