Royal Thai Air Force

Royal Thai Air Force
Royal Thai Air Force
กองทัพอากาศไทย ; Kong Thap Akat Thai
	Badge of the Royal Thai Air Force
Founded	2 November 1913
Country	Thailand
Type	Air force
Role	Aerial warfare; Anti-aircraft warfare
Size	46,000 active personnel ; 674 Aircraft
Part of	Royal Thai Armed Forces
Headquarters	Don Muang Air Base, Bangkok
Nicknames	"ทอ." "Thor Or" Abbreviation of Air Force; "ทัพฟ้า" "Thap Fah" Sky Army
Mottos	น่านฟ้าไทย จะมิให้ใครมาย่ำยี ; "The Thai airspace, none shall ever invade"
Colours	Blue
March	Thai: มาร์ชกองทัพอากาศ ; "Royal Thai Air Force March"
Anniversaries	9 April 1937 ; (Royal Thai Air Force Day)
Engagements	World War I European theatre Western Front Hundred Days Offensive; Meuse–Argonne offensive; ; ; ; Interwar period Boworadet Rebellion; ; World War II Franco-Thai War; Pacific War Japanese invasion of Thailand Battle of Prachuap Khiri Khan; ; Malayan campaign; Burma campaign Japanese invasion of Burma; Burma campaign (1942–1943); Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan; Burma campaign (1944); Burma campaign (1944–1945); ; South-East Asian Theatre; Bombing of Bangkok; ; ; Cold War Cold War in Asia; Decolonisation of Asia; Korean War; Malayan Emergency; Indochina Wars; Vietnam War; Laotian Civil War; Cambodian Civil War; Communist insurgency in Thailand; Communist insurgency in Malaysia; Third Indochina War; Cambodian conflict (1979–1998); Cambodian–Vietnamese War; Vietnamese border raids in Thailand; Thai–Laotian Border War; ; Persian Gulf War; 1999 East Timorese crisis International Force East Timor; ; War on drugs Internal conflict in Myanmar Operation Border Post 9631; 2010–2012 Myanmar border clashes; ; ; Global war on terrorism Operation Enduring Freedom; Iraq War; OEF – Afghanistan; OEF – Horn of Africa; ; 2003 Phnom Penh riots Operation Pochentong; ; Southern Insurgency; United Nations peacekeeping UNIKOM; ONUB; UNTAET; UNAMID; UNAMA; UNMIS; FCU UNTAC; Battle of Marawi; ; 2023 Sudan conflict Battle of Khartoum (2023); Evacuation from Sudan (2023); ; Cambodia–Thailand border dispute 2008–2013 Cambodian–Thai border crisis; 2025 Cambodian–Thai conflict; ;
Battle honours	Battle of Prachuap Khiri Khan
Website	rtaf.mi.th
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief	Air Chief Marshal Punpakdee Pattanakul
Insignia
Roundel
Fin flash
Flag
Aircraft flown
Attack	Alpha Jet A/TH, AT-6TH
Electronic; warfare	Saab 340 AEW&C
Fighter	JAS 39C/D, F-16A/B/AM/BM, F-5E/F/TH
Helicopter	S-70i, Bell 412, S-92, EC725
Reconnaissance	AU-23A, DA42 MPP, P.180 Avanti
Trainer	T-41D, DA40, DA42, RTAF-6, T-6TH, T-50TH, EC135
Transport	C-130H/H-30, BT-67, Saab 340B, ATR-72, Boeing 737, A319, A320, A340, SSJ-100-95LR

The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) (Thai: กองทัพอากาศไทย; RTGS: Kong Thap Akat Thai) is the air force of Thailand. Since its establishment in 1913 as one of the earliest air forces of Asia, the Royal Thai Air Force has engaged in numerous major and minor conflicts. During the Vietnam War era, the RTAF was supplied with USAF-aid equipment.