In 1936 the Swedish Air Force switched from army-like to navy-like naming of its flying units.

Thus the "air corps" became "flying flotillas" (flygflottiljer, sing.

flygflottilj) with the respective geographic region added as an official name, thus the Second Air Corps (Andra Flygkår) established in 1926 became the Second Royal Roslagen Flying Flotilla (Andra Kungliga Roslagens Flygflottilj) in 1936.

Following the naval nomenclature these flying flotillas were further divided into divisions (divisioner, sing.

[5] Flygeskadern (the "Air Command") was organized in response to the emergency preparedness in September 1939 and was resolved (except for the staff) in the latter part of 1940.

[5] Its command center Björn, was located south of Skara.

The decommissioning decision came in conjunction with the Defence Act of 1992, in which it was decided that three geographic air commands were to be established on 1 July 1993 and subsequently retrieved the duties from the 1st Air Command.