Air commanders of World War I#Romania
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The air commanders of World War I were army or navy officers who came to command air services during the first major conflict in which air power played a significant role.
Entente Powers air commanders
=British Empire=
==Australian Flying Corps==
{{see also|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==
{{see also|List of Royal Flying Corps generals}}
===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===
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- 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==
{{See also|:Category:Royal Air Force generals of World War I}}
===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{{cite web|url=http://www.airpowerstudies.co.uk/APR%20Vol%2012%20No%201.pdf |title=AIR POWER REVIEW Volume 12 Number 1|access-date=2011-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725211150/http://www.airpowerstudies.co.uk/APR%20Vol%2012%20No%201.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-25 }}
- August 1917 to __ Colonel Charles Duval
=Greece=
- Hellenic Naval Air Service: Lt Commander Aristeidis Moraitinis (1917–1918)
=Imperial Russia=
- Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich,Harvey. Collision of Empires: Britain in Three World Wars, 1793–1945. p. 419 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=
{{main|Corpo Aeronautico Militare}}
- Maurizio Moris, General Director for Aeronautics (1915)
- {{ill|Giovanni Battista Marieni|it}} (1915–1917){{cite web|url=http://www.marieni-saredo.it/6.0%20giovannibattmarieni.htm |title=Giovanni B. Marieni |publisher=Marieni-saredo.it |date= |access-date=2022-03-24}}
- Luigi Bongiovanni (1918–1919)
=Romania=
{{main|Romanian Air Corps}}
==General Inspector of Engineering and Aeronautics==
- 1913-1915 - General Mihail Boteanu{{cite magazine|url=https://amnr.defense.ro/webroot/fileslib/upload/files/Revista_Document/Revista_061_2013.pdf|title=Din Istoria Aripilor Românești 1910-1916|magazine=Buletinul Arhivelor Militare Române|author=Valeriu Avram|language=ro|issue=61/2013|date=2013|pages=2–17}}
==Commander of the RAC==
- 1915-1916; 1918-1920 - Brigadier General Constantin Găvănescu{{cite book|url=https://amnr.defense.ro/webroot/fileslib/upload/files/Aparitii_editoriale_pdf/35_Razboiul_de_intregire_1916-1919.pdf|title=Războiul de întregire (1916-1919) Comandanți militari români|language=ro|publisher=Editura Centrului Tehnic-Editorial al Armatei|date=2016|isbn=978-606-524-176-3}}{{cite web|url=http://www.roaf.ro/?page_id=4754|title=Galeria comandantilor|language=ro|work=RoAF}}
- 1916 - Major Gheorghe Rujinschi
- 1916-1918 - Major De Malherbe{{cite journal |url=https://en-gmr.mapn.ro/webroot/fileslib/upload/files/arhiva%20reviste/RMT/2018/RMT-3_2018.pdf|title=Romanian Aviation in the First World War|journal=Romanian Military Thinking |author=Mihail Orzeață |author2=Valeriu Avram |issue=3 |date=2018 |pages=206–231}}{{cite web|url=http://www.roaf.ro/?page_id=121|title=Istoric|language=ro|work=RoAF}}
==Director of the Aeronautics==
- 1916-1918 - Lieutenant-colonel {{ill|François de Vergnette de Lamotte|fr}}
- 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=
{{main|Ottoman Aviation Squadrons}}
=Bulgaria=
{{main article|Bulgarian Air Force#World War I (1914–1918)}}