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((short description|Military rank))
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((more citations needed|date=September 2019))
((Infobox military rank
| name           = Pilot officer
| image          = 
| image_size     = 150px
| caption        = An RAF pilot officer's command flag
| image2         = British RAF OF-1a.svg
| image_size2    = 100px
| caption2       = Shoulder and sleeve insignia<br/>of a pilot officer from the [[Royal Air Force]]
| image3         = 
| image_size3    = 
| caption3       = 
| country        = 
| service branch = [[Air force]]s
| abbreviation   = Plt Off / ((smaller|PLTOFF))
| rank           =
| NATO rank      = [[Ranks and insignia of NATO armies officers#Officers (OF 1–10)|OF-1]]
| Non-NATO rank  = O-1
| formation      = ((start date|1918|04|01|df=y)) ([[Royal Air Force|RAF]])
| abolished      = 
| higher rank    = [[Flying officer]]
| lower rank     = [[Acting pilot officer]]
| equivalents    = ((unbulleted list|((nowrap|[[Second lieutenant]] ([[British Army]]; [[Royal Marines]])))|[[Midshipman]] ([[Royal Navy|RN]])))
| history        = [[Royal Naval Air Service]]
))
((Military ranks | state=expanded))
'''Pilot officer''' ('''Plt Off''' officially in the RAF; '''((smaller|PLTOFF))''' in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly '''P/O''' in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest [[Officer (armed forces)#Commissioned officers|commissioned]] rank in the [[Royal Air Force]]<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/structure/commissionedranks.cfm |title=Ranks and Badges of the Royal Air Force |access-date=1 December 2007 |year=2007 |publisher=[[Royal Air Force]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214025748/http://www.raf.mod.uk/structure/commissionedranks.cfm |archive-date=14 December 2007 |url-status=dead ))</ref> and the air forces of many other [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries. It ranks immediately below [[flying officer]].

It has a [[NATO]] ranking code of OF-1 and is equivalent to a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[British Army]] or the [[Royal Marines]]. The [[Royal Navy]] has no exact equivalent rank, and a pilot officer is senior to a Royal Navy [[midshipman]] and junior to a Royal Navy [[sub-lieutenant]].  In the Australian Armed Forces, the rank of pilot officer is equivalent to acting sub lieutenant in the Royal Australian Navy.

The equivalent rank in the [[Women's Auxiliary Air Force]] (WAAF) was "assistant section officer".

==Origins==
In the [[Royal Flying Corps]], officers were designated pilot officers at the end of pilot training. As they retained their commissions in their customary ranks (usually second lieutenant or lieutenant), and many of them had been seconded from their ground units, the designation of pilot officer was a position title rather than a rank.

On 1 April 1918, the newly created [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] adopted its officer rank titles from the [[British Army]], with Royal Flying Corps second lieutenants becoming second lieutenants in the RAF. Consideration was given to renaming second lieutenants as [[Ensign (rank)|ensigns]].  However, when the RAF's own rank structure was introduced in August 1919, RAF second lieutenants who were qualified pilots((fact|date=June 2022)) were re-designated as pilot officers, a rank which has been in continuous use ever since. Those who were not qualified pilots were redesignated ''observer officers'', but this was later phased out and all officers of this rank became pilot officers.

==RAF usage==
The rank of pilot officer does not imply that the officer is aircrew. Following reforms to the Royal Air Force's promotion system, wherein previously, university graduates passed out of [[RAF Cranwell]] at a higher substantive rank than their non-graduate peers, pilot officer rank is now only applicable to ground branches. Aircrew and engineers receive their commissions as [[flying officer]]s and skip the rank altogether.<ref>((Cite web |title=Aircrew In Service Degree |url=https://viewer.joomag.com/aircrew-in-service-degree/0486432001632209486 |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Joomag |language=en))</ref> A ground branch officer will remain in the pilot officer rank for six months following commissioning, before an automatic promotion to flying officer. Because of the nature of phase II training (professional training after the phase I initial officer training), a pilot officer will generally spend time in rank on a further training course, and is not likely to be operationally active.

Some students in the [[University Air Squadron]]s are promoted to the rank of ''[[acting pilot officer]]'' (which includes a week-long course at RAF Cranwell) as part of the leadership element of their squadron. UAS students wear pilot officer rank insignia with officer's headdress and are commissioned into the Volunteer Reserve. Pilot officers are more likely to be found in the CCF and Air Training Corps organisations of the [[Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch)|VR(T)]] branch, because they are likely to spend far longer in rank than those serving in the RAF.

==Insignia==
The rank insignia consists of a thin blue band on slightly wider black band. This is worn on both the lower sleeves of the tunic or on the shoulders of the [[flying suit]] or the casual uniform.

Although no current Royal Navy rank has an insignia of a single half width ring, a pilot officer's mess insignia of one thin band of gold running around each cuff is similar to the insignia formerly worn by Royal Navy warrant officers.  As with the mess insignia for other RAF officer ranks, the band of gold does not have the Royal Navy's loop.

<gallery>
File:UK-Air-OF1B.svg|An RAF pilot officer's sleeve/shoulder insignia
File:File-UK-Air-OF1B-mess-insignia.svg|An RAF pilot officer's sleeve mess insignia
File:RAF-Plt Off-OF-1.png|An RAF pilot officer's sleeve on No.1 best dress uniform
</gallery>

==Other air forces==
The rank of pilot officer is also used in a number of the air forces in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]], including the [[Bangladesh Air Force]],<ref>((cite web |url=https://baf.mil.bd/website/rank.php |title=BAF RANKS |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2020 |website=Bangladesh Air Force Website |publisher=BAF Communication Unit |access-date=13 December 2020))</ref> [[Namibian Air Force]], [[Pakistan Air Force]], [[Royal Australian Air Force]], [[Royal New Zealand Air Force]] and [[Sri Lanka Air Force]]. The rank is no longer used by the [[Indian Air Force]] and all trainee cadets are commissioned into the force as [[flying officer]]s.

The [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] used the rank until the three armed services were unified into the [[Canadian Forces]] in 1968 and army-type ranks were adopted. A Canadian pilot officer then became a second lieutenant. In official French Canadian usage, a pilot officer's rank title was ''sous-lieutenant d'aviation''. The [[Royal Malaysian Air Force]] used "young lieutenant".

<gallery>
File:Australia RAAF OF-1a.svg|An [[RAAF]] pilot officer's sleeve/shoulder insignia
File:Hellenic Air Force OF-1B.svg|A [[Hellenic Air Force]] ''anthiposminagos'' (pilot officer's) rank insignia
File:Indian IAF OF-1a.svg|An [[Indian Air Force]] pilot officer's sleeve/shoulder insignia
File:RTAF OF-1 (Pilot Officer).svg|A [[Royal Thai Air Force|RTAF]] pilot officer's rank insignia
File:07-Namibia Air Force-PLTOFF.svg|A [[Namibian Air Force]] pilot officer's rank insignia
File:Pak-air-force-OF-1a.svg|[[Pakistan Air Force|PAF]] pilot officer's rank insignia. 
</gallery>

== See also ==
((stack|((Portal|United Kingdom|War|Aviation))))
* [[Air force officer rank insignia]]
* [[British and U.S. military ranks compared]]
* [[Comparative military ranks]]
* [[RAF officer ranks]]
* [[Ranks of the RAAF]]

==References==
((Reflist))

((UK officer ranks))

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[[Category:Military ranks of the Commonwealth]]
[[Category:Military ranks of Australia]]
[[Category:Former military ranks of Canada]]
[[Category:Military ranks of the Royal Air Force]]
[[Category:Air force ranks]]
[[Category:Pakistan Air Force ranks]]
[[Category:Military ranks of Bangladesh]]
[[Category:Military ranks of Sri Lanka]]

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