Astral crown

File:Astral Crown.svg

Example of an Astral crown

The Astral Crown is a gold crown surmounted with eight low points. The centrals and laterals points are topped with a star, with an unspecified number of points, between two wings.

In heraldry an astral crown is mounted atop the shields of coats of arms of units belonging to some air forces or the personal arms of its distinguished commanders.

Its creation became necessary after the founding of the Royal Air Force in the UK, because there was no Roman military award device for Aerial warfare equivalent to the Naval crown for navies and the Camp crown for armies.

Gallery

• Coat of arms of the Chilean Air Force.svg

  An astral crown in the coat of arms of the Chilean Air Force

• 1227 (Sidcup) Squadron ATC crest.jpg

  An astral crown in the emblem of the 1227 (Sidcup) ATC Squadron (RAF)

• 2070 (Glenfield) ATC Squadron Crest.png

  Emblem of the 2070 (Glenfield) ATC Squadron (RAF)

• Portuguese Air Force COA.png

  An aeronautical coronet (Portuguese astral crown) in the coat of arms of the Portuguese Air Force

See also

• Crown (heraldry)
• Camp crown
• Mural crown
• Naval crown
• Celestial crown
• Heraldry
• Military aviation

References

• Heraldic Headgear, American Heraldry Society.
• Astral Crown definition. Merrian Webster.
• Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1909) A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Chapter XXIII: Crest, Coronets and Chapeaux.