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Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Roundel Bleu Celeste within an Annulet Azure edged and inscribed ‘ROYAL NEW ZEALAND \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AIR FORCE’ in letters Or and decorated in base with a Kiwi bird also Or ensigned with the Royal Crown proper and at the base a Scroll Or doubled Gules edged Azure bearing the motto ‘PER ARDUA AD ASTRA’ in letters Sable an Eagle volant and affrontee head lowered and to the sinister Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The badge is an adaptation of the RAF Badge.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Per ardua ad astra<\/em> – Through difficulties to the stars.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> The New Zealand Permanent Air Force (NZPAF) was formally established in June 1923, was renamed the Royal New Zealand \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Air force by Royal assent in 1934 and became a separate service on 1 April 1937 and remains current.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who have served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blazon: In front of a Roundel Bleu Celeste within an Annulet Azure edged and inscribed ‘ROYAL NEW ZEALAND \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AIR FORCE’ in letters Or and decorated in base with a Kiwi bird also Or ensigned with the Royal Crown proper and at the base a Scroll Or doubled Gules edged Azure bearing the motto ‘PER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}