Commander of the Brazilian Air Force

The Commander of the Brazilian Air Force (Brazilian Portuguese: Comandante da Aeronáutica) is the head of the Brazilian Air Force and the leader of its Aeronautics Command (Comando da Aeronáutica or COMAer). The Commander holds the rank of Tenente-Brigadeiro-do-Ar (lit. Air Lieutenant Brigadier, a 4 star rank), is appointed by the President and reports directly to the Brazilian Minister of Defence. Prior to mid-1999 the Air Force was run by a military Minister of Aeronautics.[1]

Third and Fourth Republics

No Name Start Finish President
1 Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho 20 January 1941 29 October 1945 Getúlio Vargas
2 Armando Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida 30 October 1945 31 January 1946 José Linhares
31 January 1946 31 January 1951 Gaspar Dutra
3 Nero Moura 31 January 1951 18 August 1954 Getúlio Vargas
4 Epaminondas Gomes dos Santos 18 August 1954 24 August 1954
5 Eduardo Gomes 24 August 1954 11 November 1955 Café Filho
6 Vasco Alves Seco 11 November 1955 31 January 1956 Nereu Ramos
31 January 1956 20 March 1956 Juscelino Kubitschek
7 Henrique Fleiuss 20 March 1956 30 July 1957
8 Francisco de Assis Correia de Melo 30 July 1957 31 January 1961
9 Gabriel Grün Moss 31 January 1961 25 August 1961 Jânio Quadros
10 Clóvis Monteiro Travassos 25 August 1961 7 September 1961 Ranieri Mazzilli
7 September 1961 18 September 1962 João Goulart
11 Reinaldo Joaquim Ribeiro de Carvalho Filho 18 September 1962 15 June 1963
12 Anísio Botelho 15 June 1963 31 March 1964

Fifth Republic

No Name Start Finish President
13 Francisco de Assis Correia de Melo 4 April 1964 15 April 1964 Ranieri Mazzilli
14 Nélson Freire Lavanére-Wanderley 20 April 1964 15 December 1964 Castelo Branco
15 Márcio Melo 15 December 1964 11 January 1965
16 Eduardo Gomes 11 January 1965 15 March 1967
17 Márcio Melo 15 March 1967 31 August 1969 Costa e Silva
31 August 1969 30 October 1969 Brazilian Military Junta of 1969
30 October 1969 29 November 1971 Emílio Médici
18 Joelmir Campos de Araripe Macedo 15 March 1971 15 March 1974
15 March 1974 15 March 1979 Ernesto Geisel
19 Délio Jardim de Matos 15 March 1979 15 March 1985 João Figueiredo

Sixth Republic

No Name Start Finish President
20 Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima 15 March 1985 15 March 1990 José Sarney
21 Sócrates da Costa Monteiro 15 March 1990 1 October 1992 Fernando Collor
22 Lélio Viana Lobo 6 October 1992 31 December 1994 Itamar Franco
23 Mauro José Miranda Gandra 1 January 1995 20 November 1995 Fernando Henrique Cardoso
24 Lélio Viana Lobo 20 November 1995 4 January 1999
25 Walter Werner Bräuer 4 January 1999 10 June 1999
Comandante da Aeronáutica[1]
— Walter Werner Bräuer 10 June 1999 21 December 1999 Fernando Henrique Cardoso
26 Carlos de Almeida Baptista 21 December 1999 31 December 2002
27 Luiz Carlos da Silva Bueno 1 January 2003 28 February 2007 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
28 Juniti Saito 1 March 2007 31 December 2010
1 January 2011 29 January 2015 Dilma Rousseff
29 Nivaldo Luiz Rossato 30 January 2015 incumbent

Notes

  1. 1 2 Presidência da República - Casa Civil. "Lei complementar nº 97 de 9 de junho de 1999" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 January 2015.
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