The Romanian Army took an interest in aviation from the earliest days, facilitating the construction of the "Vlaicu I" in 1910. The next year the Army formed the Aviation Group, which over the next few years constructed Farman biplanes under license and also acquired two Blériot monoplanes, several Bristol-Coandă monoplanes and Two Morane Type F monoplanes. On 20 April 1913 it became the "Corp al aernautlior permanenti" – the Permanent Corps of Aeronauts. Three months later they engaged in reconnaissance sorties over the Bulgarian border at the start of the Second Balkan War.