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The Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign is hoisted
daily at Air Force establishments. It is also flown on Royal New Zealand Air
Force aeroplanes carrying Foreign and Commonwealth Heads of State and Heads
of Government, the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, the Chiefs of Staff,
Ambassadors, and other distinguished persons. The ensign has a light blue
ground with the Union Jack in the first quarter and the Air Force roundel on
the fly.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign as usually
illustrated [as above] is identical to the drawing of the flag that was
submitted for approval in August 1939. That design had a square full stop
after the N and after the Z. The letters are still as large as possible
within the red roundel and thus elongated and noticeably taller than they are
wide. In the application the flag is described as, "the Ensign of the Royal Air Force defaced by the addition of the
letters N Z superimposed in white upon the red roundel of the ensign." [PRO document
AIR 30/140]
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