Sri Lanka Air Force
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The Commander of the Air Force is the professional head of the Sri Lanka Air Force . The current Commander of the Air Force is Air Marshal Sumangala Dias. It is a position comparable to that of Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force . The Chief of Staff of the Air Force acts as a deputy commander within the command structure.
In the recent past all serving air force commanders have been of the rank of air marshal , promoted to the honorary rank of air chief marshal on retirement or on promotion to Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
List of commanders (including Commanders of the Royal Ceylon Air Force) [ ]
No.
Portrait
Rank
Name
Appointment
Left Office
Unit
Decorations
1
Air Commodore Graham Bladon 5 May 1950
24 October 1958
CBE
2
Air Vice Marshal John Barker 24 October 1958
12 November 1962
CB , CBE , DFC
3
Air Vice Marshal Rohan Amerasekera 12 November 1962
31 December 1970
No. 2 Squadron SLAF DFC & BAR
4
Air Vice Marshal Deshamanya Paddy Mendis 1 January 1971
1 November 1976
No. 2 Squadron SLAF No. 5 Squadron SLAF IDC, PSC, FBIM QFI
5
Air Vice Marshal Harry Goonatilake 1 November 1976
30 April 1981
No. 2 Squadron SLAF USP
6
Air Vice Marshal Dick Perera 1 May 1981
30 April 1985
No. 2 Squadron SLAF VSV , NDC, PSC
7
Air Marshal Andibuduge Fernando 1 May 1985
31 July 1990
No. 4 Squadron SLAF VSV , NDC, PSC
8
Air Marshal Makalandage Gunawardena 1 August 1990
16 February 1994
No. 2 Squadron SLAF VSV , NDC, PSC
9
Air Marshal Oliver Ranasinghe 17 February 1994
5 March 1998
No. 4 Squadron SLAF RWP , VSV , USP , NDC, PSC
10
Air Marshal Jayalath Weerakkody 6 March 1998
15 July 2002
No. 2 Squadron SLAF No. 4 Squadron SLAF RWP , VSV , USP , NDC, PSC, QFI
11
Air Marshal Donald Perera 16 July 2002
11 June 2006
No. 2 Squadron SLAF VSV , USP , NDC, PSC
12
Air Marshal Roshan Goonatilake 11 June 2006
27 February 2011
No. 4 Squadron SLAF RWP & BAR, VSV , USP , NDC, PSC
13
Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama 27 February 2011
28 February 2014
No. 5 Squadron SLAF RWP & BAR, RSP , VSV , USP , RCDS, PSC, QFI
14
Air Marshal Kolitha Gunathilake 28 February 2014
15 June 2015
No. 2 Squadron SLAF RWP & BAR, RSP , VSV , USP , NDC, PSC, QFI
15
Air Marshal Gagan Pulasthi Bulathsinghala 16 June 2015
14 September 2016
No. 4 Squadron SLAF RWP , RSP , USP , NDC, PSC
16
Air Marshal Kapila Jayampathy 15 September 2016
present
No. 4 Squadron SLAF WWV , RWP , RSP
See also [ ] Notes [ ] References [ ]
Commanders of the Sri Lankan Air Force
Chiefs of the air force by country
Africa
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi
Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros DR Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Former
Biafra Bophuthatswana Ciskei British Egypt
Ethiopian Empire Rhodesia Transkei Venda Zaire
Americas
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis
Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Former
Confederate States of America
Asia
Former
Democratic Kampuchea
Imperial Japan
Mengjiang
Manchukuo
South Vietnam
Europe
Oceania
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