| Post: | Commander |
| Body: | the Brazilian Air Force |
| Insignia: | Bandeira-Insígnia do Comandante da Aeronáutica do Brasil.png |
| Insigniacaption: | Flag of the Commander of the Brazilian Air Force |
| Incumbent: | Marcelo Kanitz Damasceno |
| Incumbentsince: | |
| 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: | Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho |
The Commander of the Brazilian Air Force 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 Ministry of Aeronautics.[1]
See main article: Third Brazilian Republic and Fourth Brazilian Republic.
| No | Name | Start | Finish | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho | 20 January 1941 | 30 October 1945 | Getúlio Vargas |
| 2 | Armando Trompowsky | 30 October 1945 | 31 January 1946 | José Linhares |
| 31 January 1946 | 31 January 1951 | Eurico 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 | 1 February 1961 | |
| 9 | Gabriel Grün Moss | 1 February 1961 | 8 September 1961 | Jânio Quadros |
| 10 | Clóvis Monteiro Travassos | 8 September 1961 | 7 September 1961 | Ranieri Mazzilli |
| 7 September 1961 | 17 September 1962 | João Goulart | ||
| 11 | Reinaldo Joaquim Ribeiro de Carvalho Filho | 17 September 1962 | 14 June 1963 | |
| 12 | Anísio Botelho | 14 June 1963 | 4 April 1964 |
See main article: Fifth Brazilian 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 | 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 |
See main article: Sixth Brazilian Republic. |- align=center| colspan=7| Commander of the Air Force