Air Secretary

The Air Secretary is the Royal Air Force appointment of which the incumbent is responsible for policy direction on personnel management for members of the RAF.^[1] From 1978 to 1983 the Air Secretary was more often referred to as Air Officer Commanding Royal Air Force Personnel Management Centre.^[2] It is a senior RAF appointment, held by an officer holding the rank of air marshal. The Air Secretary's counterpart in the British Army is the Military Secretary. The Royal Navy equivalent is the Naval Secretary.

Air secretaries

The following officers have held the post:^[3]

• 4 February 1957 Air Marshal Sir Denis Barnett^[4]
• 1 May 1959 Air Chief Marshal Sir Theodore McEvoy^[5]
• 22 October 1962 Air Chief Marshal Sir William MacDonald^[6]
• 14 July 1966 Air Marshal Sir Donald Evans^[7]
• 7 December 1967 Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett^[8]
• 27 March 1970 Air Marshal Sir Gareth Clayton
• 31 March 1972 Air Marshal Sir John Barraclough^[9]
• 15 October 1973 Air Chief Marshal Sir Derek Hodgkinson^[10]
• 28 February 1976 Air Marshal Sir Neville Stack^[11]

Note: Post vacant 1978 - 1983

• 1983 Air Vice-Marshal J B Duxbury
• December 1985 Air Vice-Marshal R A Mason
• 10 February 1989 Air Vice-Marshal R J Honey^[12]
• March 1994 Air Vice Marshal R P O'Brien
• August 1998 Air Vice Marshal I M Stewart^[13]
• 2003 Air Vice-Marshal G A Miller^[14]
• July 2004 Air Vice-Marshal P W D Ruddock^[15]
• 22 May 2006 Air Vice-Marshal S Bryant^[16]
• 27 March 2009 Air Vice-Marshal M G Lloyd^[17]
• September 2011 Air Vice-Marshal M J G Wiles
• 2013 Air Vice-Marshal David Stubbs^[18][19]

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