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}}

==Royal Flying Corps==

{{see also|List of Royal Flying Corps generals}}

===Director-General of Military Aeronautics===

===General Officer Commanding the RFC in France===

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==Royal Naval Air Service==

===Heads of the RNAS===

==Royal Air Force==

{{See also|:Category:Royal Air Force generals of World War I}}

===Chief of the Air Staff===

=France=

==Director of Military Aeronautics==

==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=

=Imperial Russia=

=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==

==Air Commander, Zone of Advance on the American Expeditionary Force in France==

Central Powers air commanders

=Germany=

==Inspector of Flying Troops==

=Austro-Hungarian Empire=

=Ottoman Empire=

{{main|Ottoman Aviation Squadrons}}

=Bulgaria=

{{main article|Bulgarian Air Force#World War I (1914–1918)}}

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