SA National Defence Force (1994 – present)

Chief of the Air Force

• LTG Carlo Gagiano March 1, 2005 – present

• LTG Roelf J Beukes March 1, 2000 – February 28, 2005

• LTG Willem Hendrik Hechter May 1, 1996 – February 29, 2000

• LTG James Kriel April 27, 1994 – April 30, 1996

SA Defence Force (1957-1994)

Chief of the Air Force

• LTG James Kriel November 1, 1991 – April 26, 1994

• LTG Jan PB van Loggerenberg July 1, 1988 – October 31, 1991

• LTG Dennis J Earp² March 1, 1984 – June 30, 1988

• LTG A Michal Muller December 1, 1979 – February 29, 1984

• LTG Robert HD “Bob” Rogers³ March 1, 1975 – November 30, 1979

• LTG Jacobus P Verster December , 1967 – February 28, 1975

• LTG Henry J “Kalfie” Martin May 1, 1965 – November 30, 1967

SAAF Chief of Staff

• Major-General Benjamin Gottlieb Viljoen September 23, 1956 – April 30, 1965

Union Defence Force (1912-1957)

• BRIG Stephen A Melville August 25, 1954 – September 22, 1956

• BRIG Harold G Willmott July 1, 1951 – August 24, 1954

Director General of the SAAF

• BRIG James T Durrant October 1, 1946 – June 30, 1951

• BRIG Harold G Willmott October 17, 1945 – September 10, 1946

• MG Christoffel J Venter October 1, 1940 – October 16, 1945

• COL John Holthouse September 13, 1939 – Sept. 30, 1940

Director Air Service and Technical Services

• LTC Hector C Daniel September 13, 1936 – Sept. 12, 1939

Director Air Service

• COL John Holthouse May 1, 1933 – September 12, 1936

• COL Sir Helperus Andreas “Pierre” van Ryneveld February 1, 1920 – April 30, 1933