Every war the Hellenic Navy Air Service has fought
The navy and the Hellenic Air Force both claim the 1913 Dardanelles seaplane mission as the first naval co-operation mission in the history of air warfare, and date it 13 days apart. Greece and Turkey dispute sovereignty over the Imia islets, which Turkey calls Kardak; Wikipedia notes speculation that Turkish fire brought down the navy helicopter lost there on 31 January 1996, which neither government has confirmed. Where a consolidated sortie or loss figure exists in the official record it is given here; where accounts disagree, the range is shown and the disagreement named. Blank cells are blank because no figure could be verified, not because the fighting was small.
From the Dardanelles in 1913 to the Imia crisis of 1996.
| Anlaşmazlık | Yıllar | Aykırı | Ana uçak | Çıkışlar | Uçak kayboldu | |
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| The First Balkan Warthe Dardanelles seaplane missionGreek naval aviation | 1913 | Osmanlı İmparatorluğu | Maurice Farman MF.7 seaplane | 1 | 0 | |
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Reconnaissance of the Ottoman fleet, with bombs dropped. Greek naval aviation’s founding moment came over the Dardanelles in the First Balkan War. The navy’s Aviation Command says that on 5 February 1913 Ensign Aristeidis Moraitinis flew as observer on a Maurice Farman MF.7 seaplane on the first naval air co-operation mission. The Hellenic Air Force gives the date as 24 January 1913, names Lieutenant Michael Moutoussis as pilot with Moraitinis, and says they drew a diagram of the Turkish fleet’s positions and dropped four bombs; it calls this the first naval co-operation mission in the history of air warfare. The 13-day difference matches the gap between the Julian calendar then used in Greece and the Gregorian calendar, though neither source says which it uses. The Royal Naval Air Corps followed in 1914. Sonuç Greece won control of the Aegean islands in the Balkan Wars. ‘First in the history of air warfare’ is the Greek services’ own claim. The two dates differ by 13 days.
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| The Imia crisisImia/KardakHellenic Navy helicopters | 1996 | Türkiye | Agusta-Bell AB 212 | 1 | ||
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Night reconnaissance of the islets from the frigate Navarino. The crisis began at Christmas 1995 and came to a head in the early hours of 31 January 1996. Greece regards Imia, two rocky islets east of Kalymnos, as Greek territory; Turkey, which calls them Kardak, disputed that, and both navies moved in. According to Wikipedia, Turkish special forces landed on the western islet at about 01:40, and at about 03:40 a Hellenic Navy Bell 212 launched from the frigate Navarino to confirm their presence crashed over the islets. Its three crew were killed. Wikipedia notes speculation that the helicopter was brought down by Turkish fire and says that was concealed by both states; no official statement by either government confirming hostile fire was found for this page. The Congressional Research Service credits the US envoy Richard Holbrooke, working by telephone, with defusing the military threat. In 2021 three new navy vessels were named after the dead, and on the 30th anniversary Prime Minister Mitsotakis said there are no ‘grey zones’ in the Aegean, the term Greece attributes to Turkish claims. Sonuç US mediation, led by Richard Holbrooke, defused the crisis on 31 January 1996; both sides withdrew and the status quo ante was restored. The cause of the crash is disputed: officially an accident by default, with speculation of Turkish fire recorded by Wikipedia. Sovereignty over Imia/Kardak is disputed between the two governments; this entry takes no position.
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Her rakam kontrol edildi.
- Hellenic Navy: Hellenic Navy Aviation CommandOfficial history 1913–2024, organisation, subordinate units, aircraft.
- Greek City Times: Mitsotakis on the 30th anniversary of the Imia crisis (31 January 2026)Names and ranks of the three officers; prime minister’s statement.
- Greek City Times: Three Greek Navy ships named after Imia martyrs (2 February 2021)Headline and summary: three new vessels named after the fallen.
- Yunan Hava Kuvvetleri: Balkan Savaşları24 January 1913 Dardanelles mission by Moutoussis and Moraitinis (as cited in the Hellenic Air Force dataset).
Veriler 01.10.2026 tarihinde doğrulanmıştır. Back to the Hellenic Navy Air Service.