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The Somali Air Force (SAF) ((ソマリ語:''Ciidamada Cirka Soomaaliyeed''), (アラビア語:القوات الجوية الصومالية), ''Al-Qūwāt al-Gawwīyä as-Ṣūmāl'') is the air force of Somalia. The Somali Aeronautical Corps (SAC) was the name of the Somali Air Force during the pre-independence (1954–1960) period. After 1960, when Somalia gained independence, the name changed to the ''Somali Air Force''. SAF principal organizer and the first Somalia pilot Ali Matan Hashi became the founder as well as the Chief of SAF.〔Luigi Pestalozza, ''The Somalian Revolution'', (Éditions Afrique Asie Amérique latine: 1974), p.27.〕 The SAF at one point had the strongest airstrike capability in the Horn of Africa.〔Tom Cooper, ''African MiGs: MiGs and Sukhois in service in Sub Saharan Africa'', (SHI Publications: 2004), p.109.〕 Following the outbreak of the civil war in the early 1990s, the air force disbanded. A reconstituted Somali Central Government later relaunched the SAF in the 2010s, with its headquarters being reopened in 2015.〔 ==History== Following an agreement signed between the Somali and Italian governments in 1962, Somali airmen began a training regimen in Italy with the assistance of Italian technical staff and pilots.〔Italy. Centro di documentazione, ''Italy. Servizio delle informazioni, Italy; documents and notes, Volume 14'', (Centro di documentazione: 1965), p.460.〕 Over the same period, fifty Somali cadets also commenced training in Soviet Union as jet aircraft pilots, later to be joined by more than two hundred of the nation’s elite NCOs and officers for general military training.〔John Gordon Stewart Drysdale, ''The Somali dispute'', (Pall Mall Press: 1964)〕 Most of these trained Somali military officials then returned to Somalia with the skills and knowledge that they had acquired abroad. The Somali Air Force was established before Somalia's independence, and was at first equipped with a small number of Western aircraft, including Beech 18s and C-47 Dakotas for transport tasks, a few Piaggio P.148 trainers, P-51D Mustangs used as fighters, and a pair of Bell H-13 Sioux helicopters. On October 15, 1969, while paying a visit to the northern town of Las Anod, Somalia's then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards. His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d'état on October 21, 1969 (the day after his funeral), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering armed opposition — essentially a bloodless takeover. The putsch was spearheaded by Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, who at the time commanded the army.〔Moshe Y. Sachs, ''Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations'', Volume 2, (Worldmark Press: 1988), p.290.〕 Barre then proclaimed Somalia to be a socialist state, and rapid modernization programs soon followed suit. Numerous Somali airmen were subsequently sent to train abroad in countries such as the United States, Italy, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. After their training, many of these men went on to become the nation's leading instructors and fighter pilots. The Somali Air Force was at this time considered to be among the very best air forces on the continent. Asli Hassan Abade was the first female pilot in the Somali Air Force. She had been training on single prop aircraft, and later earned a scholarship to study at the United States Air Force Academy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Somali Air Force」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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