Commander Air Force's mid-rank officers' ranks are modelled on those of the Royal Navy, the term wing commander is used as a rank, and this is the equivalent of a lieutenant colonel in the army or a commander in the navy. The rank of wing commander is above that of squadron leader and below that of group captain. In the former Royal Naval Air Service, which was merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force in 1918, the pilots held appointments as well as their normal ranks in the Royal Navy, and they wore insignia appropriate to
Royal Brunei Air Force and was equipped with a CN-235 plane and the Base Defence Squadron. In the same year, the Third Squadron received the Pilatus PC-7 Mark II training aircraft. The Thirty-Eight Squadron was established in 1999 and is equipped with the Mistral surface-to-air missile. Currently, the commander of the Royal Brunei Air Force is Brigadier General (U) Dato Seri Pahlawan Shahril Anwar bin Haji Ma’awiah. The Air Force is divided into 5 Wings: The Operation Wing consists of 4 Flying Squadrons and two addition units: The Air Regiment consists of 3 Squadrons and Technical Training School: The Logistics Wing consists of three