It was formed by the merger of Royal Air Force Strike and Personnel and Training commands on 1 April 2007, and has its headquarters at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

[1] The equivalent in the Royal Navy is Navy Command Headquarters at Portsmouth and the equivalent in the British Army is Army Headquarters at Andover.

Air Command was formed by the merger of Royal Air Force Strike and Personnel and Training commands on 1 April 2007.

[2] Following the implementation of the 2011 Levene Report, the role of Commander-in-Chief, Air Command was discontinued in spring 2012, and the deputy commanders started to report direct to the Chief of the Air Staff.

[4] RAF Air Command is led by the Chief of the Air Staff under whom responsibilities are split as follows:[5][6]