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FIRST JORDANIAN COMMANDER

In April 1956, after the Arabization of the Armed
Forces, Major Ibrahim Othman became the first
Jordanian Air Force Commander, directly reporting
to the Chief of the General Staff.

FULL JORDANIZATION
OF THE AIR FORCE

On March 13, 1957 the Anglo-Jordanian Treaty In June 1959, Mafraq was handed over to the RJAF
was terminated by mutual agreement and by May with the first Hunter aircraft arriving there on
31, 1957, both RAF Mafraq and RAF Amman had that date.
been evacuated and handed over to the Jordanian
Government. At the end of 1959, another squadron of Hunters
was requested to replace the aging Vampires, but
October 1958 saw the first two of twelve Hawker it was not until April 1962 that the first of these
Hunter Mark 6 fighter jets land in Amman to form arrived to form No 2 Squadron at King Hussein
No 1 Hunter Squadron, with the Vampires forming Air Base Mafraq, replacing the Vampires which
No 2 Squadron. The RAF was present in an advisory were then taken out of service, with the last flight
capacity and with a training team to instruct pilots on April 17 1962. In 1964, Squadrons 1 and 2
and airmen on the Hunter aircraft. joined to operate as Squadron 1.

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