Assistant Chief of Air Staff (United Kingdom)

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The Assistant Chief of Air Staff (ACAS) is the current Deputy Chief of the Air Staff of the British Royal Air Force (RAF).

history

As early as January 3, 1918, he was created the post of Deputy Chief of the Air Staff as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in order to support him in the preparatory work for the establishment of the RAF on April 1, 1918. At first he was also a member of the Air Council , but lost this membership after the establishment of the RAF on April 1, 1918. From the mid-1920s to 1938, the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff took on the additional task of head of operations and Intelligence Service of the RAF. After Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Trenchard resigned as Chief of the Air Staff on January 1, 1930, the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff became a member of the Air Force Council again. The post of Deputy Chief of the Air Staff existed until it was abolished in 1969.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the additional post of Vice-Chief of the Air Force Staff VCAS ( Vice-Chief of the Air Staff ) was created on April 22, 1940 , who became additional chief advisor to the Chief of the Air Staff. He was also a member of the Air Council and was responsible for planning the operational requirements of the RAF and managing the far-reaching strategic planning. The post of Vice-Chief of the Air Staff was abolished in 1985 when the responsibilities of this function were merged with those of the previous Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Policy ) and the previous Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for Operations ( Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations) ), creating today's Assistant Chief of Air Staff as the sole post. Since 1992 the ACAS has been a member of the Air Force Board , the successor organization to the former Air Council. In addition, ACAS is an ex officio member of the administrative board of the civil aviation authority CAA ( Civil Aviation Authority ).

The current Assistant Chief of the Air Staff has been Air Vice Marshal Richard Knighton since January 23, 2015 .

Official

Deputy Chiefs of the Air Staff

Start of term of office Rank Official Remarks
January 3, 1918 Major General Mark Kerr
April 1, 1918 Brigadier General Robert Marsland Groves
August 12, 1918 Brigadier General Oliver Swann
February 1919 Brigadier General Robert Marsland Groves (2nd time) also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
September 8, 1919 Air Commodore John Miles Steel also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
April 12, 1926 Air Commodore Cyril Newall also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
February 6, 1931 Air Commodore Charles Burnett also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
February 1, 1933 Air Vice Marshal Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
January 26, 1935 Air Vice Marshal Christopher Courtney also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
January 25, 1937 Air Vice Marshal Richard Peirse also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
April 22, 1940 Air Vice Marshal Sholto Douglas also head of the Department of Operations and Intelligence
November 25, 1940 Air Vice Marshal Arthur Harris
June 1, 1941 Air Vice Marshal Norman Bottomley From May 3, 1942 to July 30, 1943 he was named Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations)
September 1945 Air Marshal Albert Durston
February 4, 1948 Air Marshal Hugh Walmsley
March 1, 1950 Air Chief Marshal Arthur Sanders
March 17, 1952 Air Chief Marshal John Baker
November 1, 1952 Air Marshal Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
November 9, 1953 Air Marshal Thomas Pike
4th July 1956 Air Marshal Geoffrey Tuttle
November 15, 1959 Air Marshal Charles Elworthy
18th Jul 1960 Air Marshal Ronald Lees
June 1963 Air Marshal Christopher Hartley
April 1, 1966 Air Marshal Reginald Emson
January 30, 1967 Air Marshal Peter Wykeham Term expires on January 31, 1969

Vice Chiefs of the Air Staff

Start of term of office Rank Official Remarks
April 22, 1940 Air Marshal Richard Peirse
4th October 1940 Air Chief Marshal Wilfrid Freeman
October 19, 1942 Air Vice Marshal Charles Medhurst provisional administration.
March 21, 1943 Air Chief Marshal Douglas Evill
June 1, 1946 Air Marshal William Forster Dickson
1947 Air Marshal James Robb
November 1, 1948 Air Marshal Arthur Sanders
March 1, 1950 Air Chief Marshal Ralph Cochrane
November 1, 1952 Air Marshal John Baker
November 9, 1953 Air Marshal Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
September 16, 1957 Air Marshal Edmund Hudleston
March 2, 1962 Air Marshal Wallace Kyle
November 1964 Air Marshal Brian Burnett
November 6, 1967 Air Marshal Peter Fletcher
August 1, 1970 Air Chief Marshal Denis Smallwood
1st November 1973 Air Marshal Ruthven Wade
February 1976 Air Marshal David Evans
March 1977 Air Marshal Peter Terry
January 30, 1979 Air Marshal John Nicholls
May 1980 Air Marshal David Craig
August 1982 Air Marshal Peter Harding Term expires on August 29, 1985

Assistant Chiefs of the Air Staff

Start of term of office Rank Official
February 13, 1986 Air Vice Marshal Laurence Jones
March 2nd 1987 Air Vice Marshal Michael Simmons
March 14, 1989 Air Vice Marshal John Thomson
March 15, 1991 Air Vice Marshal Timothy Garden
August 14, 1992 Air Vice Marshal Anthony Bagnall
August 1, 1994 Air Vice Marshal Peter Squire
September 30, 1995 Air Vice Marshal Timothy Jenner
August 3, 1998 Air Vice Marshal Jock stirrup
September 1, 2000 Air Vice Marshal Philip Sturley
October 6, 2003 Air Vice Marshal David Walker
April 22, 2005 Air Vice Marshal Chris Moran
April 27, 2007 Air Vice Marshal Tim Anderson
March 1, 2010 Air Vice Marshal Barry North
April 5, 2013 Air Vice Marshal Edward Stringer
23rd January 2015 Air Vice Marshal Richard Knighton

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Dow: The Arrow , James Lorimer Verlag & 1997, ISBN 1-55028-554-8
  2. ↑ Assistant Chief of Air Staff (ACAS) on the website of the Royal Air Force (accessed on February 13, 2016)
  3. ↑ Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder was originally intended to serve as Vice Chief of the Air Staff. After a meeting between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower , Tedder was appointed Commander in Chief of the Air Force for the entire Mediterranean region at the request of the USA . General Ike, A Biography of Dwight D Eisenhower
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37597, HMSO, London, June 4, 1946, p. 2751 ( PDF , accessed February 13, 2016, English).