Chief of Air Force (New Zealand)

Chief of Air Force (CAF) is the most senior appointment in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, responsible to the Chief of Defence Force. The post was originally known as the Chief of the Air Staff.

The following officers have served as the professional head of the Royal New Zealand Air Force:




 * 1 April 1937 Group Captain Ralph Cochrane (RAF)
 * 25 February 1939 Group Captain Hugh Saunders (RAF)
 * 29 September 1941 Air Commodore Victor Goddard (RAF)
 * 19 July 1943 Air Vice-Marshal Leonard Isitt
 * May 1946 Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Nevill
 * January 1951 Air Vice-Marshal D V Carnegie (RAF)
 * February 1954 Air Vice-Marshal W H Merton (RAF)
 * June 1956 Air Vice-Marshal C E Kay
 * July 1958 Air Vice-Marshal M F Calder
 * July 1962 Air Vice-Marshal Ian Morrison
 * July 1966 Air Vice-Marshal C A Turner
 * July 1969 Air Vice-Marshal W Stratton
 * July 1971 Air Vice-Marshal D F St George
 * September 1974 Air Vice-Marshal Sir Richard Bolt
 * October 1976 Air Vice-Marshal Larry Siegert
 * October 1979 Air Vice-Marshal Ewan Jamieson
 * April 1983 Air Vice-Marshal David Crooks
 * October 1986 Air Vice-Marshal Patrick Neville
 * 1988 Air Vice-Marshal P R Adamson
 * 1992 list incomplete
 * September 1995 Air Vice-Marshal Carey Adamson
 * 25 February 1999 Air Vice-Marshal Don Hamilton
 * 25 February 2002 Air Vice-Marshal John Hamilton
 * 1 May 2006 Air Vice-Marshal Graham Lintott
 * 1 May 2011 Air Vice-Marshal Peter Stockwell
 * The next Chief of Air Force has been designated as Air Commodore Mike Yardley