Ranks
The officer ranks were taken from the Danish army and the insignias were copied from the Royal Air Force with minor differences and are as follows:
| NATO Code | OF-10 | OF-9 | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1 | OF(D) | Student Officer | |||||
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| Denmark (Edit) |
No equivalent |
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No equivalent | No equivalent | |||||||||||||
| General | Generalløjtnant | Generalmajor | Brigadegeneral | Oberst | Oberstløjtnant | Major | Kaptajn | Premierløjtnant | |||||||||
The other rank insignia are as follows:
| NATO Code | OR-9 | OR-8 | OR-7 | OR-6 | OR-5 | OR-4 | OR-3 | OR-2 | OR-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Denmark (Edit) | No equivalent |
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| Chefsergent | Seniorsergent | Oversergent | Sergent | Korporal | Flyverspecialist | Flyveroverkonstabel |
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