page_title: List of Royal Australian Air Force air marshals
section_title: Air chief marshals
hierarchical_section_title: List of Royal Australian Air Force air marshals / Air chief marshals
caption_attribution_description: English: RAAF Air Chief Marshall
context_page_description: The following is a list of Australians who have attained air marshal rank within the Royal Australian Air Force; that is, service personnel who have held the rank of air chief marshal, air marshal or air vice marshal. The Royal Australian Air Force was established in 1921 as a separate branch of the Australian military forces. The service was modelled after the Royal Air Force—formed three years earlier—and adopted the same ranking system. Richard Williams, regarded as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force, was the service's first member to obtain air-officer rank on being promoted to air commodore in 1927; he went on to become the first air vice marshal and air marshal. In 1965, Sir Frederick Scherger became the first officer to be advanced to air chief marshal, one of only four members of the Royal Australian Air Force to obtain this rank as of June 2014. A further twenty-one individuals have reached air marshal in the RAAF and 127 air vice marshal; seven officers have retired with the honorary rank of air vice marshal.
context_section_description:  This along with the * (asterisk) indicates that the air chief marshal is still a serving member of the RAAF.
  A dash (—) in the "Died" column indicates that the person is still living.
  The rank of air chief marshal is the most senior rank within the Royal Australian Air Force to which, excluding ceremonial appointments, any officer has ever been promoted. Only the five-star rank of Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force is higher, but it has only been held in a ceremonial capacity. As there are currently no appointments in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) at the five-star level, there is no prospect of a RAAF officer achieving the rank in a professional (i.e. non-ceremonial) capacity. Additionally, Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force is generally considered to be a marshal rank as opposed to an air marshal rank and so the only two individuals ever to hold the rank, King George VI and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, are not listed in a separate section. With the current structure of the ADF, the rank of air chief marshal is only held when an officer of the RAAF is appointed as Chief of the Defence Force. As of June 2018, only four officers have obtained the rank of air chief marshal in the RAAF, the first being Sir Frederick Scherger in 1965 who was also the first non-Army officer in the Australian military to reach four-star rank. Mark Binskin is the recently promoted of the four, having been advanced to air chief marshal in June 2014.
  Air chief marshals of the Royal Australian Air Force are as follows:
caption: An Australian air chief marshal's rank insignia
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