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This is a of serving senior officers in the Royal Air Force. It includes currently serving air chief marshals, air marshals, air vice-marshals, and air commodores.[1][2]
Air Chief Marshals
Name | Photo | Appointment | Branch | Decorations | Date of promotion | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sir Richard John Knighton | Chief of the Air Staff | Engineer | KCB, ADC | 2 June 2023 | [3] |
Air Marshals
Name | Photo | Appointment | Branch | Decorations | Date of promotion | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sean Keith Paul Reynolds | Air Officer, Northern Ireland | Royal Air Force Reserve | CB, CBE, DFC | 9 May 2016 | [4][1][5] | |
Martin Elliot Sampson | General Duties | CBE, DSO | 5 February 2021 | [1] | ||
Stephen Jeffrey Shell | Director-General of the Defence Safety Authority | General Duties | CB, OBE, QCVS | 12 January 2022 | [6] | |
John Jackson Stringer | Deputy Commander, Allied Air Command | Flying | CBE | 1 August 2022 | [7] | |
Harvey Smyth | Flying | CB, OBE, DFC | 26 August 2022 | [8] | ||
Richard Clark Maddison | Flying | OBE | 2 May 2023 | [3] | ||
Clare Samantha Walton | Director General, Defence Medical Services | RAF Medical Services | CB, KHP | 3 July 2023 | [9] | |
Allan Paul Marshall | Air and Space Commander | Flying | OBE | 8 March 2024 | [10] |
Acting
Name | Photo | Appointment | Branch | Decorations | Date of promotion | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paul Harron Lloyd | Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Command Air Member for Personnel, Air Force Board |
CBE | 15 September 2023 | [1] |
Air Vice-Marshals
Name | Photo | Appointment | Branch | Decorations | Date of promotion | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ross Paterson | Administrative | CB, OBE, DL | [1][11] | |||
Elaine West | Service Complaints Panel Member | General Duties (Ground) | CBE | 1 August 2013 | [12] | |
Richard Broadbridge, 5th Baron Broadbridge | Service Complaints Panel Member | Medical | CB, KHS | 19 December 2014 | [1][13] | |
Warren Austin William James | to retire | General Duties | CB, CBE | 8 June 2017 | [14] | |
Christopher J. Moore | to retire | Engineer | CBE | 1 February 2018 | [15] | |
Tamara Nancy Jennings | Director of Legal Services, Air Command | RAF Legal Branch | OBE | 29 September 2018 | [16] | |
Ranald Torquil Ian Munro | Commandant General, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Chief of Staff (Reserves), Air Command |
transferred from British Army | CB, CBE, TD, VR, DL | 23 September 2019 | [17] | |
Alan K. Gillespie | Director, Military Aviation Authority | Flying | CBE | 14 October 2019 | [18] | |
Lincoln Scott Taylor | Chief of Staff (Capability), Air Command | Flying | CB, OBE | 2 December 2019 | [19] | |
Maria Byford | to retire | RAF Medical Services | QHDS | 24 February 2020 | [20] | |
Michael J. Smeath | Director, Global Defence Network Commandant General, Royal Air Force Regiment |
Regiment | CBE | 31 July 2020 | [21] | |
Alastair P. T. Smith | Commander, Joint Helicopter Command | Flying | 31 August 2020 | [22] | ||
Paul Alexander Godfrey | Flying | OBE | 8 March 2021 | [23] | ||
Philip T. G. Lester | Senior Directing Staff (Air), Royal College of Defence Studies | Royal Air Force Reserve | 4 May 2021 | [24] | ||
Simon S. Edwards | Air Secretary Chief of Staff (Personnel), Air Command |
Flying | 17 May 2021 | [24] | ||
Timothy David Neal-Hopes | Engineer | OBE | 9 August 2021 | [25] | ||
Suraya Antonia Marshall | Flying, Qualified Weapons Instructor | CBE | 11 October 2021 | [26] | ||
Philip Jeremy Robinson | Flying | CBE, DFC** | 6 December 2021 | [27] | ||
Mark W. J. Chappell | Senior British Military Advisor, United States Central Command | Flying | 5 January 2021 | [28] | ||
Richard D. Pratley | Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Support Operations) | Logistics | 2 May 2022 | [29] | ||
David Scott Arthurton | Director of Strategy and Defence Digitisation, Defence Digital | Flying | OBE | 13 May 2022 | [30] | |
Peter James Murray Squires | Commander, British Forces Cyprus Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas |
Flying | OBE, ADC | 1 September 2022 | [31] | |
Giles Leslie Legood | Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force |
Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch | MBE, KHC | 5 August 2022 | [32] | |
John Finbar Monahan | Director, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre | Policy | OBE, DFC | 10 October 2022 | [33] | |
Timothy Telfer Jones | Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Plans) | CBE | 2 December 2022 | [34] | ||
Mark Robert Flewin | Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group | Flying | CBE | 12 January 2023 | [35] | |
Philip Alan Brooker | Director Combat Air, Defence Equipment and Support | Engineer | OBE | 12 May 2023 | [36] | |
Ian Jon Townsend | Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group | Flying | CBE | 22 May 2023 | [37] | |
David Cyril McLoughlin | Director of Defence Healthcare, Defence Medical Services | RAF Medical Services | CBE | 5 June 2023 | [3] | |
Jeremy J. Attridge | Director, Saudi Armed Forces Project | Flying | OBE | 20 June 2023 | [37] | |
Thomas James Patrick Burke | Air Officer Commanding, No. 11 Group Chief of Staff (Operations), Air Command |
Flying | 25 August 2023 | [38] | ||
Shaun Harris | Director Support, and Chief Engineer (RAF) | Engineer | CBE | 27 September 2023 | [36] | |
Jason Lee Appleton | Air Officer Commanding, No. 2 Group | Flying | 29 February 2024 | [10] | ||
James Anthony Beck | Director Capability and Programmes | OBE | 2 April 2024 | [39] |
Acting
Name | Photo | Appointment | Branch | Decorations | Date of promotion | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Christopher D. Snaith | OBE | 15 February 2021 | [1] | |||
Raymond Jackson Pentland | Royal Air Force Reserve | CB | [40] |
Air Commodores
Name | Photo | Appointment | Branch | Decorations | Date of promotion | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gerard Alan Opie | Assistant Chief of Staff (Personnel Delivery), Air Command | General Duties | CBE | 1 July 2008 | [41] | |
Dean R. Andrew | General Duties | OBE | June 2013 | [2][1] | ||
Ian R. Tolfts | OBE | July 2014 | [42] | |||
James E. Linter | to retire | Flying | OBE | 18 November 2014 | [43] | |
Nigel Timothy Bradshaw | Deputy Defence Services Secretary Head of Ceremonial Events, Honours, and Recognition, Ministry of Defence |
13 April 2015 | [1][44] | |||
Adam Mark Sansom | Engineer | 24 June 2016 | [45] | |||
Simon Andrew Harper | Administrative | OBE | 26 September 2016 | [46] | ||
David J. Rowland | Engineer | 11 November 2016 | [47] | |||
James E. Savage | Head of Regional Delivery Accommodation, Defence Infrastructure Organisation | Administrative | OBE | 18 April 2017 | [48] | |
Jefferson Brian Portlock | Service Complaints Panel Member | Flying | 21 April 2017 | [49] | ||
Anthony John Beasant | to retire | Regiment | CBE | 24 April 2017 | [48] | |
Mark Hunt | Head of Air ISTAR, Defence Equipment and Support | Engineer | OBE | 12 June 2017 | [50] | |
Dominic A. Stamp | Defence Attaché in Waiting | Flying | CBE | 3 July 2017 | [51] | |
Adrian S. Burns | Assistant Chief of Staff (Personnel Policy), Air Command | Personnel | 19 July 2017 | [50] | ||
Andrew T. Martin | Assistant Chief of Staff (Capability Delivery, Air Mobility and Air Enablers), Air Command | Flying | OBE | 21 July 2017 | [50][1] | |
Suzanne Natalie Perkins | Logistics | CBE | August 2017 | [1] | ||
Catherine Clare Coton | Air Commodore Air Staff, Air Command | Administrative | CBE | 4 September 2017 | [52] | |
Wendy Rothery | Deputy Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Ministry of Defence | Personnel | 2 April 2018 | [53] | ||
Mark S. Sexton | Provost | June 2018 | [1] | |||
Michael R. Wilson | Head of Cyber Governance and Risk Compliance, Ministry of Defence | Engineer | 30 November 2018 | [54] | ||
Patrick Keiran O’Donnell | Personnel | CBE | 8 January 2019 | [55] | ||
Robert A. Woods | Air Officer, Wales | Engineer | OBE ADC | 26 April 2019 | [56] | |
Anthony C. Keeling | Commandant, Royal Air Force Air Cadets | Engineer | MBE | 6 September 2019 | [57][58] | |
Jeremy D. Holmes | Flying | OBE | 2 March 2020 | [59] | ||
Hugh F. Smith | Head of Air, Space and Cyber Doctrine, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre | Flying | 24 July 2020 | [21] | ||
Jason N. Young | Head of C4 and Joint User Information, Defence Digital | Engineer | 16 September 2020 | [22] | ||
Andrew Neil Grant | October 2020 | |||||
Hamish Roy Callender Cormack | Flying | CBE | 16 October 2020 | [22] | ||