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An air officer is an air force officer of the rank of air commodore or higher. Such officers may be termed "officers of air rank". While the term originated in the Royal Air Force, air officers are also to be found in many Commonwealth nations who have a similar rank structure to the RAF.
Air officers holding command appointments receive the title Air Officer Commanding (AOC), whereas air officers holding commander-in-chief positions are titled as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C).
Usage examples of "air officer".
The cover read: thunderstorm flying by Captain Scott Davidson, Air Officer, Airlift Wing, Provisional.
Then the voice of the Air Officer back aboard Jefferson broke in on the tactical net.
Kreml's Air Officer appeared completely self-assured on the point.
He wrote backward, so the letters and numbers read properly to the air officer, the air wing commander, and the other observers who were sitting silently on the other side of the board watching the television monitors and occasionally glancing at the board.
There was an Egyptian air officer right there in fighter control, filling in the Russian director about Israeli air tactics.
Colonel Forrest, the military attache, a fat Army Air officer from Idaho who had been in Germany for two years, introduced the Henrys to foreign attaches and Nazi leaders, including Goebbels and Ribbentrop, who looked just like their newsreel pictures, but oddly diminished.