Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Hugh Moran, KCB, OBE, MVO, ADC, FRAeS (28 April 1956 – 26 May 2010) was a fast jet pilot and later a senior commander in the Royal Air Force.

Moran was born in Urmston, Lancashire,[1] and educated at Bishop Ullathorne School in Coventry in the late sixties and early seventies[2] before attending the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to study mechanical engineering.

He was commissioned an acting pilot officer on 16 December of that year, together with Stuart Peach, who also achieved the rank of air chief marshal.

In 1985, he was also an exchange officer with the United States Marine Corps at Cherry Point, North Carolina.

The same year Moran led his squadron to the Middle East for duties on Operation Warden which involved enforcing the no-fly zone over northern Iraq.

IV Squadron flew missions against the Bosnian Serbs as part of Operation Deliberate Force.

[14] Moran's death was announced on the evening of 26 May 2010; he had collapsed following a triathlon at RAF Brize Norton that afternoon.

He was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford by air ambulance, but was pronounced dead on arrival.