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Aspy Engineer

Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC (15 December 1912 – 1 May 2002) was an officer in the Indian Air Force who rose through the ranks to become Chief of the Air Staff and later served as India's ambassador to Iran.

Denzil Keelor

Air Marshal Denzil Keelor PVSM, AVSM, VrC, KC (born 7 December 1933) is a retired Indian Air Force air marshal and a hero of the Indo-Pakistani war.

Grahame Donald

Air Marshal Sir David Grahame Donald KCB DFC AFC RAF (27 July 1891 – 23 December 1976), often known as Sir Grahame Donald, was a Royal Naval Air Service pilot during World War I, a senior Royal Air Force officer between the wars and a senior RAF commander during World War II.

Harsha Abeywickrama

Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrema, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, rcds, psc, qfi, SLAF is a Sri Lankan fighter pilot and the current Commander of the Sri Lankan Air Force.

Narayan Menon

Air Marshal Narayan Menon (born 27 September 1944) was a former Air Officer-in-Charge (Personnel) with the Indian Air Force.

Sadhashivan Radhakrishnan

Air Marshal Sadhashivan Radhakrishnan is a Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) of the Indian Air Force’s Bangalore based Training Command.

Subroto Cup

Subroto Cup Football Tournament is an inter-school football tournament in India, named after the Indian Air Force Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee.

Zafar Chaudhry

Air Marshal Zafar Ahmed Chaudhry, SQA (born 19 August 1926) was the first Chief of Air Staff and a three-star general of the Pakistan Air Force from March 1972 to April 1974.


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4th Operations Group

Hunter and Major General Carl A. Spaatz, Brigadier General Ira Eaker, U.S. and English war correspondents, Air Marshal Harold "Gus" Edwards RCAF, along with Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, RAF.

Arthur William Murphy

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Brancker

Sefton Brancker (1877–1930), Royal Air Force air marshal and British Army general

Christopher Draper

When the company folded Draper sought an interview with Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard and was granted a commission in the RAF.

George E. Stratemeyer

One of Stratemeyer's favorite cartoons showed him sitting at his desk surrounded by pictures of his eight bosses (Stillwell, Mountbatten, Gen. George C. Marshall, Chiang, Arnold, Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Major General Daniel I. Sultan, and FDR), all of whom could give him orders in one or another of his capacities.

Grahame Donald

1 January 1944 - Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath - Acting Air Marshal David Grahame Donald, CB, DFC, AFC, RAF.

Henry Fraser

Paterson Fraser, Air Marshal The Reverend Sir Henry Paterson Fraser

John Tremayne

John Tremayne Babington (1891–1979), later John Tremayne Tremayne, British Air Marshal and High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1954

Menzies, Western Australia

Sir Colin Hannah KBE KCMG KCVO CB (1914-1978), air force Air Marshal and 19th Governor of Queensland

No. 58 Squadron RAF

It was reformed in 1924 as a heavy bomber unit on training duties, commanded from 1925 by Squadron Leader Arthur Harris, later Air Marshal "Bomber" Harris.

North American P-51 variants

The Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Wilfrid R. Freeman, lobbied vociferously for Merlin-powered Mustangs, insisting two of the five experimental Mustang Mk Xs be handed over to Carl Spaatz for trials and evaluation by the U.S. 8th Air Force in Britain.

Perry-Keene

Allan Perry-Keene (1898–1987), British air marshal, first Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force

Riccardo Fedel

These included: Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame, General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Boyce Combe, Brigadier Edward Joseph Todhunter, Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry, Second Lieutenant, Lord (Dan) Ranfurly Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly, Brigadier Douglas Arnold Stirling, Brigadier Edward William Drummond Vaughan.

Shah Mohammad Ziaur Rahman

Air Marshal Zia graduated from the Defence Services Command & Staff College in Dhaka in 1991 and from the PAF Air War College in 1992.

Valston Hancock

In March 1957, Hancock was one of three candidates, along with Air Vice Marshals Frederick Scherger and Allan Walters, touted as possible successors to Air Marshal Sir John McCauley as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), the RAAF's senior position.

Wrekin Trust

The Wrekin Trust is a charity founded by Sir George Trevelyan in 1971, under the active encouragement of Air Marshal Victor Goddard.

Zulfiqar Ali Khan

:This article is about the Pakistani air marshal, for the Indian politician and army officer see Zulfikar Ali Khan.