Tom Burke (RAF officer)

Air Vice-Marshal Thomas James Patrick Burke, CBE is a British pilot and senior Royal Air Force officer, who since August 2023 has been Air Officer Commanding No.

[2] Burke was station commander of RAF Waddington from November 2017 to December 2019.

[3][4] He was promoted air commodore on 6 January 2020 upon appointment as assistant chief of staff operations,[5] serving as such until he was appointed director of the Combined Air and Space Operations Centre at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in December 2022.

[6] He was promoted to air vice-marshal on 25 August 2023, as he took the command of the No.

[7] In the 2021 New Year Honours, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).