„Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy was established on 11th of August 1995 based on the Government Decision no. 616.
„Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy continues the work of the Military Aviation Institute „Aurel Vlaicu”, the Radio-location Institute „Avram Iancu” and the Missile and Anti-aircraft Artilery Institute „General Bungescu”, whose tradition began as follows:

The first aviation military school was established in Cotroceni, based on the High Decree no.1953 on March 27, under the leadership of major of aviation Ion Macri, being one of the first five institutions of this kind in the world;

The first anti-aircraft artilery offiter school was established in Bucharest, shortly after the trigger of the second World War, under the name of „Military School of  Anti-aircraft Artilery Officers”;

The first school of radar officers was established in Sibiu.