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Hellenic Air Force

Greece, one of the Centre of Excellence’s Sponsoring Nations, participates with all three Services of the Armed Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force Corps, being under the supervision of the Military Police Directorate of the Hellenic Army General Staff.

1911

1912

1930

1934

Hellenic Government assigned the establishment of an Air Service to French experts..

First flight in Greece

Air Ministry was founded and the Hellenic Air Force (known abroad as RHAF) was established as a unified independent branch of the Hellenic Armed Forces. Eleftherios Venizelos was sworn in as the first Air Minister and assigned the total reorganisation of the Branch

Hellenic Air Force General Staff set up. In the context of modernisation, new aircraft types were delivered and significant infrastructure works were carried out

The Hellenic Air Force General Staff (HAFGS) consists of:

The Chief of Hellenic Air Force General Staff

The Deputy Chief of Hellenic Air Force General Staff

The Chief of Staff The branches of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff, which are subject to the Deputy Chief of HAFGS including the Directorates, Departments and Offices which they comprise.

HAFGS is the Supreme Hierarchical Echelon of the Hellenic Air Force (HAF), which is in place to support the Chief of the HAF (C/HAF), in order to perform powers and duties in times of peace, crisis and war, as provided by the relevant Orders of the State. Specifically, its mission is to ensure the proper organization, staffing, training, armament, equipment  maintenance, assessment and Air Operations planning, with the aim to ensure the Air Defence, the Territorial Integrity, the National Sovereignty, the Sovereign Rights, the nation’s competences and, in general, the national interests, as determined by international treaties or decisions of International Organizations, against threats, provocations and/or armed attacks, in accordance to C/HAF’s orders, C/HNDGS’s directions and the instructions of the Minister of National Defense.

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