Navigator Brevets
 

Hello all, I’ve just received a couple of padded RAF navigator brevets and would like some expert advice on their age and origin, please.

I take it neither are of any age then...

It is difficult to put an age on these badges as they have stayed more or less the same since inception. Of the two the paper backed version is the elder of them and my guess would be the 1950s or 1960s the other could have been made yesterday.
Dave

Many thanks, Dave. Interested to read that the paper-backed brevet is possibly the older of the two.

They are not ‘Brevets’ by the way. The correct term is a ‘Flying Badge’ as described in King’s and Queen’s Regulations over the years. The term ‘Brevet’ was actually the French word for a certificate or diploma and was taken from the FAI certificates originally given to Pilots prior and during the first world war. Getting your brevet literally meant getting your certificate and not your Flying Badge.

Best, Gaz