Mohammad Amir Khatami

Khatami was born in Rasht in 1920. His father was a tea house owner and later dealt with real estate. His mother was a relative of Imam Jomeh, a significant religious figure in Tehran and a relative of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. After graduating from the Alborz High School in Tehran, Khatami attended the military high school. In 1939, he began to study at the air force branch of the military college and graduated as a second lieutenant. Next, he took pilot training courses in the United Kingdom and graduated from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. He was also trained at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany, in the 1950s on jets as part of a group of 15 IIAF pilots including Capt. (later Lt. General) Nader Jahanbani, Lt. (later Lt. General) Amir Hossein Rabii, Lt. (later Lt. General) Mohammad H. Mehrmand, and Lt. (later Major General) A. Minusepehr.{{cite web|title=Golden Crown History|work=IIAF|access-date=31 July 2013 (left) and Mohammad Khatami ==Career==

In 1946, Khatami was named personal pilot of the Shah. He succeeded Hedayat Gilanshah in the post. Khatami served in this post until his death in 1975.{{cite book|author=Abbas Milani|author-link=Abbas Milani|title=Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979: In Two Volumes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixU33FaG_dgC&pg=PA196|year=2008|publisher=Syracuse University Press In addition, Khatami served as the chairman of the board of the Iranian National Airlines and chief of the council of the Civil Aviation Department. He also had some business activities. He was co-owner of a construction company and had shares in the aviation and real estate companies.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Ahmed S. Hashim|title=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics |chapter=Iran: Imperial and Republican Civil–Military Relations|year=2021|publisher=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ==Personal life==

Khatami married twice. His first spouse was his cousin with whom he had a daughter. The Shah and his fiancée Farah Diba attended the wedding ceremony. They had two sons, Kambiz (born 1961) and Ramin (born 1967), and a daughter, Pari (born 1962).{{cite web|author=Ebrahim Hadidi|title=Field Martial Mohammad Khatami In 1947 Khatami was the captain of the Iranian national football team.{{cite journal|author=Houchang E. Chehabi|title=A Political History of Football in Iran|journal=Iranian Studies|date=Autumn 2002|doi=10.1080/14660970600615328|s2cid=144616657|volume=35 At the time of his death, Khatami's wealth was estimated to be nearly $100 million.{{cite book|page=9 ==Death==

Khatami died in a hang gliding accident on 12 September 1975 in Dezful. ==References==