Air commanders of World War I

British Empire Australian Flying Corps • 1914–1919 – Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Reynolds, General Staff Officer for Aviation, Australian Imperial Force • 1918 - Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams, Officer Commanding (Acting) RAF Palestine Brigade Royal Flying Corps Director-General of Military Aeronautics • 1914–1917 – Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson • 1917–1918 – Major-General John Salmond • 1918 – Brigadier-General Edward Ellington General Officer Commanding the RFC in France • 1914–1915 – Major-General Sir David Henderson • 1915–1918 – Major-General Hugh Trenchard • 1918 – Major-General John Salmond Royal Naval Air Service Heads of the RNAS • 1914–1915 – Captain Murray Sueter, Director of the Admiralty Air Department • 1915–1917 – Rear Admiral Charles Vaughan-Lee, Director of the Admiralty Air Department • 1917–1918 – Commodore Godfrey Paine, Fifth Sea Lord and Director of Naval Aviation Royal Air Force Chief of the Air Staff • 1918 – Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard • 1918 – Major-General Frederick Sykes France Director of Military Aeronautics • 1914–1915 Brigadier General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer • position vacant • 1916 Henry Jacques Regnier Head of the Service Aéronautique • to December 1916 Colonel Édouard Barès • December 1916 to August 1917 Commandant Paul du Peuty • August 1917 to __ Colonel Charles Duval Greece • Hellenic Naval Air Service: Lt Commander Aristeidis Moraitinis (1917–1918) Imperial Russia • Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, Field Inspector General of the Imperial Russian Air Service • General Alexander von Kaulbars (Head of Russian Aviation in the Field, 1914-1915) • Colonel Sergey Oulianine (Head of the Directorate of the Air Force, 1917-1918) Italy • Maurizio Moris, General Director for Aeronautics (1915) • (1915–1917) • Luigi Bongiovanni (1918–1919) Romania General Inspector of Engineering and Aeronautics • 1913-1915 - General Mihail Boteanu Commander of the RAC • 1915-1916; 1918-1920 - Brigadier General Constantin Găvănescu • 1916 - Major Gheorghe Rujinschi Director of the Aeronautics • 1916-1918 - Lieutenant-colonel • 1918-1920 - Brigadier General Constantin Găvănescu United States ====Chief of Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force in France==== • 30 June 1917 - Lieutenant-Colonel William L. Mitchell • 3 September 1917 - Brigadier-General William L. Kenly • 27 November 1917 - Brigadier-General Benjamin Foulois • 29 May 1918 - Major-General Mason Patrick Air Commander, Zone of Advance on the American Expeditionary Force in France • Brigadier-General Billy Mitchell ==Central Powers air commanders==

Germany • Führer der Luftschiffe (Admiral 2nd Class) Peter Strasser, Commander of naval Airships (1915–1918) • Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel and then Colonel, Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen, Chief of Field Air Services (1915–1916), Air Service Chief of Staff (1916–1919) • Lieutenant-General Ernst von Hoeppner, Commanding General of the Air Service (1916–1919) Inspector of Flying Troops • Colonel Walter von Eberhardt, Inspector of Flying Troops (1913–1914) • Major Richard Roethe, Inspector of Flying Troops (1914–1916) • Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel Wilhelm Siegert, 2nd Staff Officer of Field Air Services (1915–1916), Inspector of Flying Troops (1916–1918) • Captain Wilhelm Haehnelt, Air Commander 5th Army (1915–1916), Air Commander 1st Army (1916–1918), Inspector of Flying Troops (1918–1919) Austro-Hungarian Empire • Colonel, later Major General Emil Uzelac, Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops (1912–1918) • Colonel General Archduke Josef Ferdinand, Inspector General of the Imperial Air Force (1917–1918) Ottoman Empire Bulgaria ==References==