Commanders
The following were the air officers commanding either the Air Headquarters Western Desert or the Desert Air Force:
- AHQ Western Desert
- 21 October 1941 Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham (also AOC AHQ Libya)
- 31 January 1943 Air Vice-Marshal Harry Broadhurst
- Desert Air Force
- 10 July 1943 AV-M Broadhurst
- 6 April 1944 Air Vice-Marshal W F Dickson
- 3 December 1944 Air Vice-Marshal R M Foster
- 30 August 1945 Air Commodore C L Falconer
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