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Air Chief Marshal R. A. Udeni P. Rajapaksa RSP & two Bars, VSV, USP is a retired Sri Lanka Air Force officer who served as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force from June 2023 to January 2025. [1] 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 Vice Marshal C.R. Gurusinghe: 1 February 2016: Air Vice Marshal Sumangala Dias: 1 October 2016: 28 May 2019: Air Vice Marshal Sumangala Dias was appointed as 17th Commander of the Air Force and promoted to Air Marshal. Air Vice Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana: 2019: 1 November 2020: Air Vice Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana was appointed as 18th ...
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 Vasu Bandu Edirisinghe. 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.
The General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy was established in 1980 by the Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy Act, No. 68 of 1981 as the joint defence service training institute of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, where cadets of the three services, Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and Sri Lanka Air Force undergo academic training together ...
The professional head of the air force is the Commander of the Air Force, as of 2025 Air Marshal Vasu Badu Edirisinghe 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.
At least 104 Indian citizens were deported from the United States Tuesday night on a military aircraft, according to officials from India’s Punjab state, as US President Donald Trump makes ...
On 2 November 2020, he was appointed as the 18th Commander of the Air Force by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and was also promoted to the three star rank of Air Marshal. [6] [7] He replaced Air Chief Marshal Sumangala Dias who retired. [8] [9] [2] He went into retirement on 29 June, 2023. [10]
Assumed office Left office Notes 1 Air Marshal: Tej Mohan Asthana Indian Air Force: 10 January 2003: 30 June 2004: First C-in-C. [5] 2 Ajit Bhavnani 12 July 2004: 18 August 2005: Later served as Vice Chief of the Air Staff (India). [6] [7] 3 Avinash Deodata Joshi 22 August 2005: 31 December 2006 [8] 4 Vice Admiral: Vijay Shankar Indian Navy ...