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]
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| 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 |
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 | Took office | Left office | Time in office | President | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima (1926–2011) | 15 March 1985 | 15 March 1990 | 5 years, 0 days | José Sarney | |
| 21 | Sócrates da Costa Monteiro (born 1930) | 15 March 1990 | 1 October 1992 | 2 years, 200 days | Fernando Collor | |
| 22 | Lélio Viana Lobo (born 1931) | 6 October 1992 | 31 December 1994 | 2 years, 86 days | Itamar Franco | |
| 23 | Mauro José Miranda Gandra (1933–2018) | 1 January 1995 | 20 November 1995 | 323 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| (22) | Lélio Viana Lobo (born 1931) | 20 November 1995 | 4 January 1999 | 3 years, 45 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| 24 | Walter Werner Bräuer (1937–2018) | 4 January 1999 | 10 June 1999 | 157 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
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| (24) | Walter Werner Bräuer (1937–2018) | 10 June 1999 | 21 December 1999 | 194 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| 25 | Carlos de Almeida Baptista (1937–2018) | 21 December 1999 | 31 December 2002 | 3 years, 10 days | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | |
| 26 | Luiz Carlos da Silva Bueno (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 | |
| 29 | Antonio Carlos Moretti Bermudez | 4 January 2019 | Incumbent | 1 year, 225 days | Jair Bolsonaro | |
Notes
- 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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