(Abzeichen für Motorflygzeugführer)

Date Instituted

1938

Requirements

Awarded to licensed powered aircraft pilots (NSFK members).

Number awarded

?

Known makers/markings

22639 (second type), GM No 111241 (third type)

Estimated price (2009)

€ 1.500

Comments

Three different patterns existed:
1. Cloth badge, instituted 12 July 1938
2. Metal badge (with aircraft), instituted 1 May 1939
3. Metal badge (with eagle), instituted 1942

Photo © Knut S

Sources used

Christopher Ailsby - A collectors guide to the Luftwaffe
Christopher Ailsby - World War 2 German medals and political awards
John R. Angolia - For Führer and Fatherland: Political & Civil awards of the Third Reich
David Littlejohn - Orders, decorations, medals and badges of the Third Reich
Detlev Niemann - Price Guide Germany 1871-1945 (2009)