Air commanders of World War I

Entente Powers air commanders

British Empire

Australian Flying Corps

• 1914–1919 – Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Reynolds, General Staff Officer for Aviation, Australian Imperial Force
• 1918 - Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams, Officer Commanding RAF Palestine Brigade

  Royal Flying Corps

Director-General of Military Aeronautics

• 1914–1917 – Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson
• 1917–1918 – Major-General John Salmond
• 1918 – Brigadier-General Edward Ellington

  General Officer Commanding the Royal Flying Corps in France

• 1914–1915 – Major-General Sir David Henderson
• 1915–1918 – Major-General Hugh Trenchard
• 1918 – Major-General John Salmond

  Royal Naval Air Service

Heads of the RNAS

• 1914–1915 – Captain Murray Sueter, Director of the Admiralty Air Department
• 1915–1917 – Rear Admiral Charles Vaughan-Lee, Director of the Admiralty Air Department
• 1917–1918 – Commodore Godfrey Paine, Fifth Sea Lord and Director of Naval Aviation

  Royal Air Force

Chief of the Air Staff

• 1918 – Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard
• 1918 – Major-General Frederick Sykes

  France

Director of Military Aeronautics

• 1914–1915 Brigadier General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer
• position vacant
• 1916 Henry Jacques Regnier

  Head of the Service Aéronautique

• to December 1916 Colonel Édouard Barès
• December 1916 to August 1917 Commandant Paul du Peuty

  Greece

• Hellenic Naval Air Service: Lt Commander Aristeidis Moraitinis

  Imperial Russia

• Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, Field Inspector General of the Imperial Russian Air Service

  Italy

• Maurizio Moris

  United States

Chief of Air Service of the [American Expeditionary Force] in France

• 30 June 1917 - Lieutenant-Colonel William L. Mitchell
• 3 September 1917 - Brigadier-General William L. Kenly
• 27 November 1917 - Brigadier-General Benjamin Foulois
• 29 May 1918 - Major-General Mason Patrick

  Air Commander, Zone of Advance on the American Expeditionary Force in France

• Brigadier-General Billy Mitchell

  Central Powers air commanders

Germany

• Führer der Luftschiffe Peter Strasser, Commander of naval Airships
• Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel and then Colonel, Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen, Chief of Field Air Services, Air Service Chief of Staff
• Lieutenant-General Ernst von Hoeppner, Commanding General of the Air Service

  Inspector of Flying Troops

• Colonel Walter von Eberhardt, Inspector of Flying Troops
• Major Richard Roethe, Inspector of Flying Troops
• Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel Wilhelm Siegert, 2nd Staff Officer of Field Air Services, Inspector of Flying Troops
• Captain Wilhelm Haehnelt, Air Commander 5th Army, Air Commander 1st Army, Inspector of Flying Troops

  Austro-Hungarian Empire

• Colonel, later Major General Emil Uzelac, Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops
• Colonel General Archduke Josef Ferdinand, Inspector General of the Imperial Air Force

  Ottoman Empire

Bulgaria