The navigation lighting device for an aircraft, in particular a military
aircraft and preferably a fighter aircraft is provided with several
navigation light units (22, 24, 26) with navigation lights (48, 50, 52),
a power supply unit (28) for the navigation light units (22, 24, 26), and
a central actuation unit (32) for the actuation of the navigation light
units (22, 24, 26) in each one of several modes of operation. The
navigation light units (22, 24, 26) can be actuated for operation in a
mode of operation by the central actuation unit (32) sequentially in a
predetermined sequence and thus with a time offset. Each navigation light
unit (22, 24, 26) comprises a control unit (42, 44, 46) connected to the
actuation unit (32) for the actuation of its navigation light (48, 50,
52) in the operation mode predetermined by the central actuation unit
(32). The control units (42, 44, 46) of the navigation light units (22,
24, 26) comprise time-delay elements (54, 56, 58) for the temporal delay
of the actuation of the navigation lights (48, 50, 52) on the receipt of
an actuation signal of the central actuation unit (32). The time-delay
elements (54, 56, 58) of the control units (42, 44, 46) of the navigation
light units (22, 24, 26) are set in such a manner that the navigation
lights (48, 50, 52) of all the navigation light units (22, 24, 26) can be
actuated simultaneously by their control units (42, 44, 46) despite a
temporally offset receipt of the actuation signals of the central
actuation unit (32).