It can trace its history back to the creation of the Chief for the Naval Air Service, in 1913.

The current chief of the Air Force is Major general Jan Dam.

[1] On 14 December 1911, the Naval Air Service was established.

On 25 March 1912, the Royal Danish Navy received its first airplane the Kite, in 1913 the first chief was named.

From 1947 till the creation of the RDAF, Torben Ørum served as Combined Army and Naval Air Corps Chief.