John Allison (RAF officer)

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Air Chief Marshal Sir John Allison KCB, CBE (born 1943), was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

1 RAF career
2 Later career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] RAF career

Allison was appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group in 1990. He went to become Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Strike Command in 1994 and then Commander-in-Chief of Logistics Command in 1996. He served as Air Officer Commanding Strike Command from 25 July 1997 to 28 March 1999 when he retired from the Royal Air Force.

[edit] Later career

He is still a keen pilot, flying his own light aircraft as well as the Shuttleworth Collection of vintage and historic aircraft at Old Warden (UK). He flies the Spitfire and other similar aircraft at air displays. He is a keen restorer of vintage cars and old airplanes.

He was Director of Strategy, and subsequently, Operations Director at Jaguar Racing from May 2001 to October 2004. He left on redundancy as a result of restructuring following the sale of the company to Red Bull Racing. He went to Rolls-Royce plc as Project Director for the redevelopment of the Bristol Site in February 2005. Sir John was elected President of Europe Air Sports in April 2004 and took up the position in November 2004, following the retirement of Oliver Burghelle (France). He is also a member of the govrening body of Cokethorpe School, Witney.

One of his sons is a glider pilot, while another is Deputy Technical Director of the Renault F1 team.