Air Marshal Sir Richard Bowen Jordan, KCB, DFC (7 February 1902 – 24 April 1994) was a bomber pilot and squadron commander during the Second World War, a senior Royal Air Force officer during the post-war years and the sixth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps (1949–51).

[1] Returning to the UK two years later he was held as a supernumerary officer at the RAF Central Depot before embarking on an eight-year secondment as a test pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment's military experimental division at Farnborough.

[1] In January 1938 he temporarily ceased flying duties and took up an appointment as a Staff Officer in the RAF's Directorate of Peace Organisation.

At 06:00, having crossed the English coast, Jordan's aircraft stalled and crashed 7 miles south west of Bury St Edmunds.

[1] Over a three-year period he held several transient ranks in quick succession, including temporary group captain, acting air commodore, group captain (War Substantive) and temporary air commodore while serving as the Director of Overseas Transport Operations.

[1] On 1 February 1949 Jordan took over the appointment as Commandant Royal Observer Corps at RAF Bentley Priory from Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon.

After lengthy negotiations with Buckingham Palace staff, Jordan formally invited His Majesty King George VI to assume the position of Air Commodore in Chief of the ROC.

[1] In June 1958 his personal De Havilland Devon crashed near Largs in Scotland while apparently en route to his headquarters at RAF Andover to collect passengers: he was not on board at the time.