Commander of the Brazilian Air Force
| Commander of the Brazilian Air Force | |
|---|---|
| Comandante da Aeronáutica | |
 Coat of arms of the Air Force | |
 Brazilian Air Force | |
| Style | Tenente-Brigadeiro-do-Ar |
| Member of | Joint Staff of the Armed Forces |
| Reports to | Minister of Defence |
| Appointer | President of Brazil |
| Formation | 20 January 1941 |
| First holder | Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho |
The Commander of the Brazilian Air Force (Brazilian Portuguese: Comandante da Aeronáutica, lit. 'Aeronautics Commander') 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 | 31 January 1951 | 18 August 1954 | Getúlio Vargas | |
| 4 | 18 August 1954 | 24 August 1954 | ||
| 5 | Eduardo Gomes | 24 August 1954 | 11 November 1955 | Café Filho |
| 6 | 11 November 1955 | 31 January 1956 | Nereu Ramos | |
| 31 January 1956 | 20 March 1956 | Juscelino Kubitschek | ||
| 7 | 20 March 1956 | 30 July 1957 | ||
| 8 | 30 July 1957 | 31 January 1961 | ||
| 9 | 31 January 1961 | 25 August 1961 | Jânio Quadros | |
| 10 | 25 August 1961 | 7 September 1961 | Ranieri Mazzilli | |
| 7 September 1961 | 18 September 1962 | João Goulart | ||
| 11 | 18 September 1962 | 15 June 1963 | ||
| 12 | 15 June 1963 | 31 March 1964 |
Fifth Republic[]
| No | Name | Start | Finish | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 4 April 1964 | 15 April 1964 | Ranieri Mazzilli | |
| 14 | 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 | 15 March 1971 | 15 March 1974 | ||
| 15 March 1974 | 15 March 1979 | Ernesto Geisel | ||
| 19 | 15 March 1979 | 15 March 1985 | João Figueiredo |
Sixth Republic[]
| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Time in office | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | (1926–2011) | 15 March 1985 | 15 March 1990 | 5 years, 0 days | José Sarney | |
| 21 | (born 1930) | 15 March 1990 | 1 October 1992 | 2 years, 200 days | Fernando Collor | |
| 22 | (born 1931) | 6 October 1992 | 31 December 1994 | 2 years, 86 days | Itamar Franco | |
| 23 | (1933–2018) | 1 January 1995 | 20 November 1995 | 323 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| (22) | (born 1931) | 20 November 1995 | 4 January 1999 | 3 years, 45 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| 24 | (1937–2018) | 4 January 1999 | 10 June 1999 | 157 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| Commander of the Air Force Comandante da Aeronáutica[1] | ||||||
| (24) | (1937–2018) | 10 June 1999 | 21 December 1999 | 194 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| 25 | (1937–2018) | 21 December 1999 | 31 December 2002 | 3 years, 10 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| 26 | (born 1940) | 1 January 2003 | 28 February 2007 | 4 years, 58 days | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | |
| 27 | Juniti Saito (born 1942) | 1 March 2007 | 29 January 2015 | 7 years, 334 days | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Dilma Rousseff | |
| 28 | Nivaldo Luiz Rossato (born 1951) | 30 January 2015 | 4 January 2019 | 3 years, 340 days | Dilma Rousseff Michel Temer | |
| 29 | Antonio Carlos Moretti Bermudez | 4 January 2019 | 30 March 2021 | 2 years, 85 days | Jair Bolsonaro | |
| 30 | Carlos de Almeida Baptista Júnior | 12 April 2021 | Incumbent | 294 days | Jair Bolsonaro | |
![Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima [pt]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/No_image.png)
![Mauro José Miranda Gandra [pt]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Mauro_Jos%C3%A9_Miranda_Gandra.jpeg/100px-Mauro_Jos%C3%A9_Miranda_Gandra.jpeg)
Notes[]
- ^ a b 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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