Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee Explained

Fuen Ritthakhanee
Honorific-Prefix:Marshal of the Air Force
Honorific-Suffix:MPCh, MVM, ThChW
Order:Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
Alongside:Prayoon Yuthasastrkosol
Term Start:2 August 1955
Term End:16 September 1957
Primeminister:Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Predecessor:Phin Choonhavan
Muni Mahasantana Wechayantrangsarit
Boonkerd Sutantanon
Successor:Wan Waithayakon
Praphas Charusathien
Sukich Nimmanheminda
Order2:Minister of Transport
Term Start2:6 December 1951
Term End2:2 August 1955
Primeminister2:Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Predecessor2:Sawat Sawatranachai Sawatdikiat
Successor2:Muni Mahasantana Wechayantrangsarit
Order3:Minister of Public Health
Term Start3:31 March
Term End3:16 September 1957
Primeminister3:Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Predecessor3:Prayoon Pamornmontri
Successor3:Luang Chaloem Khamphirawet
Order4:4th Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Air Force
Term Start4:1949
Term End4:1957
Predecessor4:Luang Thewarit Pan Luek
Successor4:Chalermkiat Watanangura
Birth Date:21 February 1900
Birth Place:Phra Nakhon district, Phra Nakhon, Siam (now Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand)
Allegiance: Thailand
Branch: Royal Thai Air Force
Serviceyears:1914–1961
Rank: General
15px Admiral[1]
Marshal of the Air Force[2]
Commands:Commander-in-Chief
Battles:World War II
Battles Label:Wars

Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee (Thai: ฟื้น รณนภากาศ ฤทธาคนี) (21 February 1900  - 8 July 1987) was a Royal Thai Air Force officer who served as the Commander of the Royal Thai Air Force from 1949 to 1957. In July 1951, Ritthakhanee became Minister of Transport and in 1955 he was elevated to the position of Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand. Relinquishing the Deputy Prime Ministership in 1957, he briefly served as Minister of Health that year.

In 1947 he was one of the group of senior officers who planned and carried out the Siamese coup d'état.

On 13 December 1949 Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee took over as Commander of the Royal Thai Air Force, replacing Air Marshal Luang Tevaritpunluok. He continued in the Air Force's senior post until 1957.[3]

In 1953, Air Chief Marshal Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee founded the Royal Thai Air Force Academy, albeit on a temporary basis. Four years later in 1957, Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee who was by then a marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force and its Commander, returned to the Academy laying its foundation stone during a ceremony which marked its permanent establishment.[4]

In the 1960s Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee was the chairman of the United Flour Mill Public Company Limited, Thailand's first wheat flour mill.[5] Fuen was retired at the Supreme Command Headquarters in 1961. He died on 8 July 1987, at the age of 87.

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  1. http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2495/D/026/1023_1.PDF Archived copy
  2. http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2497/D/047/1672.PDF Archived copy
  3. http://www.fader.dyndns.org/wings/TAirForce/thaiafbasis08e.htm{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  4. Web site: Archived copy . 2008-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081228024507/http://www.aircadetwing.com/index.php?lay=show&ac=article&Id=251639#eng . 2008-12-28 . dead .
  5. Web site: United Flour Mill. sunsite.icm.edu.pl.