MISSION:
The Air Force Academy’s mission is to train students to become officers for the following specialities: pilots, navigators, meteorologists, air defense artillery and missiles, radar.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
The Air Force Academy was established based on the Government Decision, and given the name of “Henri Coanda”, in the honor of the great scientist who invented the jet plane.
The Air Force Academy “Henri Coanda” continues the activity of the Aviation Military Institute “Aurel Vlaicu”, the Radiolocation Military Institute and the Anti-Aircraft Artillery and Missiles Military Institute “General Bungescu”, whose traditions were based on the following historical moments:
- First Aviation Military School, one of the first five institutions of this kind in the world, set up on 1 April 1912 in Cotroceni, under the leadership of Maj. Ion Macri;
- First military school for anti-aircraft artillery offiers - established shortly after World War II had begun, respectively on 10th December 1939, in Bucharest;
- First radar officers school - established on 1 December 1952, in Sibiu.

ADMISSION:
Young people (men and women) having a High-School diploma can apply for the entry examination at the Military Academy, after Regional Recruitment Centers and the National Institute for Aeronautical and Space Medicine selected and declared them eligible based on physical, psychological and medical examination. The entry examination held by the Academy consists of three written tests:
- Mathematics
- Social sciences
- English language.

LOGISTICS:
The logistics, intended for the students training, comprises classrooms, multifunctional halls, laboratories for various purposes, lecture rooms, libraries, a complex sports ground, shooting ranges, training fields, etc.
THE ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT:
The Commandant of the Academy, who is also the Rector of this institution, is in harge with the academic management. He is supported by a managerial team, made up of the Commandant’s deputies: Deputy Chief, Prorector, Chief of Staff, Chief of Logistics, Chief Physician, Chaplain and Chief of the PR Department.
The Collective Body which elaborates and makes decisions concerning educational activities in the Academy is the Senate, which permanently analyses the carrying out of the teaching activity and makes suggestions to the Rector regarding its improvement.

PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES:
During an academic year the students are tested and assessed regarding their general and professional knowledge.
The students carry out practical activities such as:
- pilot students fly YAK-52, a propeller engine plane and the L-39 jet plane;
- practical activities in designated military bases for the students specialized in meteorology, artillery and antiaircraft missiles, and radar.
- firing activities in the Capu Midia Firing Range, for the students specialized in artillery and surface-to-air missiles.