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Air Marshal R. A. Udeni P. Rajapaksa RSP & two Bars, VSV, USP is a senior Sri Lanka Air Force officer and pilot currently serving as Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force since June 2023. Previously, he served as Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Air Force , Director Air Operations, Base Commander SLAF Katunayake and Commandant of the Air Force ...
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The Strategic Enterprises Management Agency (SEMA) of the government was against creating an international airport in Mattala, and instead recommended the expansion of BIA facilities and improving the Airfield in Puttalam as an emergency landing strip due to lower transport costs, it being already situated near an air corridor, and less environmental damage.
The professional head of the air force is the Commander of the Air Force, as of 2023 Air Marshal Udeni Rajapaksa who reports directly to the Minister of Defence. The Commander of the Air Force exercises operational and administrative control of the air force from the Air Force Headquarters within the Defence Headquarters complex in Akuregoda.
The Commander of the Air Force is the professional head of the Sri Lanka Air Force. The current Commander of the Air Force is Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana. It is a position comparable to that of Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force. The Chief of Staff of the Air Force acts as a deputy commander within the command structure.
Air Vice Marshal Udeni Rajapaksa [59] In 1956, with the departure of the RAF from RAF Negombo, the Royal Ceylon Air Force took over and renamed the station RCAF Katunayake. With the construction of the Bandaranaike International Airport, a major portion of the air base was taken over.
Birds-eye view of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in October 2004 The front view of the King Shaka International Airport's main terminal building in May 2010 United Airlines Boeing 777-200 taking off from Frankfurt Airport in January 2011. Toponymy is one of the most common sources for the naming of airports. A number of areas ...
formerly Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina International Airport, changed in August, 2008 Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq formerly Saddam International Airport, named for Saddam Hussein Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia formerly Haile Selassie I International Airport, named for Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia