Wing Commander Hector MacLean AE* (9 December 1913 – 19 July 2007) was a Battle of Britain fighter pilot.

On 26 August 1940, MacLean was severely wounded over the English Channel, but managed to return and belly-land his badly damaged aircraft at RAF Tangmere.

[2] He was then unable to continue flying, and became a fighter controller and scrambled the intercept when Rudolf Hess made his lone flight to Scotland on 10 May 1941.

[3] He joined his family's law firm after the war and in 1999 wrote Fighters in Defence, Memories of the Glasgow Squadron.

[4] MacLean is survived by his three sons Donald, Marcus, Charles and daughter Jane and his nine grandchildren.