• Flag shown at the official state publication Ministro dell’Aeronautica, Ufficio di Stato Maggiore: Regolamento sulle Bandiere, le insegne, gli onori, le visite e le precedenze, le riviste e le parate. Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Roma 1939, p. 32, Allegato No 2. (Italian)
• Flag description at Gazzetta Ufficiale, No. 91, 20 April 1938, p. 1514.

The color tones used in this flag is the same as used in Mussolinis personal flag, whose colors was defined by the Fascist Italian state (See Ministro dell’Aeronautica, Ufficio di Stato Maggiore (1939): Regolamento sulle Bandiere, le insegne, gli onori, le visite e le precedenze, le riviste e le parate. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, p. 32, Allegato No 2). In reality, however, the Gold color tones was used in many variants, brighter and darker.

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