English: ORGANISATIONSBUCH DER NSDAP 1943: Tafel 73 Dienstgradabzeichen des NSFK. (Das Nationalsozialistische Fliegerkorps): Kragenspiegeln; Schulterklappen; Freiballonführer-Abzeichen; Flugzeugführer-Abzeichen.
Colour plate showing rank insignia (collar tabs/patches and shoulder straps) and badges of the National Socialist Flyers Corps, a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in Germany (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) that was founded 15 April 1937 as a successor to the German Air Sports Association.
The paramilitary rank system in use by the NSFK between the years of 1933 and 1945 were designed after paramilitary rank titles of the Sturmabteilung. Most ranks of the NSFK were also used by the National Socialist Motor Corps which maintained its own paramilitary rank system. As with most Nazi paramilitary groups, rank patches were worn on a single collar opposite a badge of unit membership. The exception was for the ranks Standartenführer and above which displayed rank insignia on both collars.
The NSFK retained the SA rank levels but used blue gray with yellow piping for the collar tabs. NCO and Officer tabs had a secondary pipping of silver. Shoulder boards also retained the SA levels, using 5 shoulder boards to cover all ranks.
Cropped page copied from Organisationsbuch der NSDAP by Reichsorganisationsleiter Robert Ley (1890 – 1945) published 1943 ("Herausgeber: Robert Ley"; "7 Auflage: 301-400 Tausend"). Publisher : Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., München. 856 pages. 596 (ie 750) p: ill, maps, ports, plates; 22 cm; German language. Letters in Fraktur style typefaces.