Vice-Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)

Vice chiefs of the air staff

• 22 April 1940 – 4 October 1940 Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse
• 4 October 1940 – 19 October 1942 Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman
• 19 October 1942 – 21 March 1943 Air Vice-Marshal C E H Medhurst Air Chief Marshal Tedder had been due to take the appointment but after a meeting with Eisenhower, the Americans asked Churchill to appoint Tedder as Air Commander for the whole Mediterranean area.
• 21 March 1943 – 1 June 1946 Sir Douglas Evill
• 1 June 1946 – 1947 Air Marshal Sir William Dickson
• 1947 – 1948 Air Marshal Sir James Robb
• 1 November 1948 Air Marshal Sir Arthur Sanders
• 1 March 1950 Air Chief Marshal The Honourable Sir Ralph Cochrane
• 1 November 1952 Air Marshal Sir John Baker
• 9 November 1953 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
• 16 September 1957 Air Marshal Sir Edmund Hudleston
• 2 March 1962 Air Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle
• November 1964 Air Marshal Sir Brian Burnett
• 6 November 1967 Air Marshal Sir Peter Fletcher
• 1 August 1970 Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Smallwood
• 1 November 1973 Air Marshal Sir Ruthven Wade
• February 1976 Air Marshal Sir David Evans
• March 1977 Air Marshal Sir Peter Terry
• 30 January 1979 Air Marshal Sir John Nicholls
• May 1980 Air Marshal Sir David Craig
• August 1982 Air Marshal Sir Peter Harding