| World Air Forces |
Bulgaria
Air Force
Orders of Battle:
| 1906-1913 | Establishment and the Balkan Wars | |
| 20 April 1906* | The First Aeronautical Unit | |
| 13 August 1912* | Summer Military Exercises | |
| 17 September 1912* | Before the First Balkan War | |
| 5 October 1912* | Bulgaria joins First Balkan War | |
| 16 October 1912* | The First Bombing Operations | |
| 30 October 1912* | The Armistice | |
| 21 January 1913* | Hostilities Resume | |
| 23 March 1913* | End of the First Balkan War | |
| 17 June 1913* | The Second Balkan War starts | |
| 1914-1918 | The First World War | |
| July 1914* | After Demobilisation | |
| September 1915* | Modest Expansion | |
| October 1915* | Entry into the First World War | |
| 26 April 1916 | Further Expansion | |
| start of 1917 | Early 1917 | |
| June 1917 | First Fighters on the Frontline | |
| January 1918 | Start of the Final Year of the War | |
| May 1918 | More Fighters Arrive | |
| early September 1918 | The Final Battle | |
| 30 September 1918 | End of the First World War | |
| 12 October 1918 | After the First World War | |
| 1919-1940 | The Inter-War Years | |
| 10 April 1921 | Police Aviation | |
| 30 March 1922 | End of para-military aviation | |
| 1925 | Aeronautics Administration established | |
| 1927 | The Clandestine Air Force | |
| 1930 | Aeronautical Regiment | |
| 28 July 1934 | Air Force Re-established | |
| 27 June 1937 | Presentation of Colours | |
| 1939 | After The Initial Expansion | |
| 1941-1945 | The Second World War | |
| January 1940 | The start of the '40s | |
| 1 July 1940 | Reorganisation to Polks | |
| 5 April 1941 | Defence During Operation Marita | |
| 26 June 1941 | Minor Redeployments | |
| 6 August 1941 | Reconnaissance Deployments | |
| October 1941 | Galata Orliak Formed | |
| 22 June 1942 | Fighter Deployments to Sofia | |
| 1 July 1943 | Parachute Drujina Formed | |
| September 1943 | New Fighters Received | |
| mid 1944 | Soviet Troops Approach The Border | |
| September 1944 | Anti-German Offensive | |
| 28 October 1944 | Support to Ground Forces | |
| 1946-1989 | The Cold War | |
| 1949 | Post-war Reconstruction | |
| 1956 | The Jet Age | |
| 1965 | The Supersonic Era | |
| 1975 | New Generation Fighters | |
| 1990-Present | The Modern Era | |
| 1990 | End of the Cold War | |
| 1994 | Partnership for Peace | |
| 1998 | Partnership for Peace | |
| Current | The Air Force Today |
* = Julian calendar date, 13 days behind Gregorian calendar.
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