David Harcourt-Smith

Air Chief Marshal Sir David Harcourt-Smith GBE KCB DFC (born 14 October 1931) is a former Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Support Command.

RAF career
Educated at Felsted School and RAF College Cranwell, Harcourt-Smith was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1952. He served in Aden where he won the DFC for gallentry and devotion to duty in 1957.

He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 54 Squadron in 1963 and Officer Commanding No. 6 Squadron in 1969 before moving on to be Station Commander at RAF Bruggen in 1972 and Commandant of the RAF College Cranwell in 1978. He went on to be Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1980, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Support Command in 1984 and Controller of Aircraft in 1986. As Controller of Aircraft he oversaw the introduction of the Tucano training aircraft. He retired in 1989.

Family
In 1957 he married Dorothy Mary Entwistle; they had two sons and one daughter.