# Jon Chitty

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[Air Commodore](/source/Air_Commodore) **Jon Chitty**, [OBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) [RAF](/source/Royal_Air_Force), was [Commandant](/source/Commandant_Air_Cadets) of the [Air Training Corps](/source/Air_Training_Corps) (ATC)[1] from 3 May 2002 until July 2005.

## Biography

Air Commodore Jon Chitty was brought up and educated in Sheffield. He attended [King Edward VII School](/source/King_Edward_VII_School_(Sheffield)) ([photo](http://www.oldedwardians.org.uk/nlc/photos/64.1(1).html)) and left with an RAF Scholarship to undertake an Aeronautical Engineering degree at [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London) from 1971 to 1974.

He then undertook officer and specialist training at RAF College Cranwell during the following year. His first posting was to [RAF Kinloss](/source/RAF_Kinloss) as Officer Commanding Armament Servicing Flight supporting the 3 Nimrod Squadrons. Postings to [RAF Gutersloh](/source/RAF_Gutersloh) and [RAF Wattisham](/source/RAF_Wattisham) followed before he was posted to DSGT at Cranwell as an instructor.

He left on promotion a year later to command the Armament Engineering Squadron at RAF Coningsby and was the project officer for the introduction to service of the Tornado F2. A range of tours at [RAF Stanley](/source/RAF_Mount_Pleasant) ([Falkland Islands](/source/Falkland_Islands)), [HQ Strike Command](/source/RAF_Strike_Command) and [RAF Wattisham](/source/RAF_Wattisham) were followed by promotion to Wing Commander and a return to Strike Command to lead the Tornado Role Office in September 1989.

His involvement in the fleet support and modification programmes for the Tornado squadrons involved in the [Gulf War](/source/Gulf_War) led to his award of the OBE in the Gulf War Honours list. He then attended the Advanced Staff Course at Bracknell before his posting to [RAF Bruggen](/source/RAF_Bruggen) as Officer Commanding Engineering and Supply Wing. At the end of a busy 3 years in Germany, he was promoted to group captain and posted to the DD Weapons (RAF) appointment at [RAF Wyton](/source/RAF_Wyton). He served 4 years in post before moving to the [Ordnance Board](/source/Ordnance_Board) as the Air Strike Division Leader in December 1999.

This tour as the UK specialist for the provision of independent safety and suitability for service advice for all air-launched and ground-based air defence munitions, also involved taking the UK-lead for Insensitive Munitions nationally and internationally. He left the newly formed Defence Ordnance Safety Group to take up the dual-appointment of [Air Officer Commanding Air Cadets](/source/Air_Officer_Commanding_Air_Cadets) and Commandant of the [Air Training Corps](/source/Air_Training_Corps), at the [RAF College Cranwell](/source/RAF_College_Cranwell), on 3 May 2002.

The appointments of [Air Officer Commanding Air Cadets](/source/Air_Officer_Commanding_Air_Cadets) and Commandant ATC were split on 24 March 2003 with the former appointment passed to the Chief Executive of the Royal Air Force [Training Group Defence Agency](/source/Training_Group_RAF) and the latter becoming [Commandant Air Cadets](/source/Commandant_Air_Cadets).

Jon is an Advanced Instructor in scuba diving and upon leaving the Royal Air Force at the end of this tour, he founded a scuba diving equipment design and manufacture company, [Venture Diving](http://www.venturediving.com). Venture Diving has designed and brought the innovative [Tank2Go twinset trolley and carrier](https://web.archive.org/web/20090126204514/http://venturediving.com/tank2go.php) to market. Jon also works as a consultant for a number of aerospace organisations.

## References

1. ["RAF Senior Appointments p. 58"](http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Royal%20Air%20Force%20Senior%20Appointments.pdf). Retrieved 3 January 2011.

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