{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox military person |name= Sir Timothy Jenner |image= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date and age|1945|12|31|df=yes}} |birth_place= |death_date= |death_place= |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Air Force |service_years= 1964–2001 |rank= Air Marshal |unit= |commands= RAF Shawbury<br/>No. 33 Squadron |battles= The Troubles |awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |relations= |other_work= }} Air Marshal '''Sir Timothy Ivo Jenner''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|FRAeS}} (born 31 December 1945) is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander who since retirement has worked for Serco.
==RAF career== Educated at Maidstone Grammar School, Jenner joined the Royal Air Force in 1964 (commissioned 1967).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44365|supp=y|page=7889|date=18 July 1967}}</ref> He trained as a Westland Wessex (Sikorsky H-34) helicopter pilot in 1968 and on 15 August 1969 he became the first pilot to land a Wessex helicopter in Northern Ireland at the start of The Troubles. From 1976 he flew Pumas.<ref name=debrett>[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/j/17321/Timothy%20Ivo%20(Tim)+JENNER.aspx Timothy Jenner at Debrett's People of Today]</ref> He became Officer Commanding No. 33 Squadron in 1982, Military Assistant to the Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Commitments) in 1985 and Military Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Programmes and Personnel) in 1986.<ref name=debrett/>
He went on to be Station Commander of RAF Shawbury in 1987, Deputy Director of Air Force Plans in 1990 and Director of Defence Programmes in 1992.<ref name=debrett/> After that he was appointed Air Officer Plans at Headquarters Strike Command in 1993, Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Costs Review) in 1993 and Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1996.<ref name=debrett/> His final appointments were as Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Strike Command in 1998 and as Commander of the Combined Air Operations Centre in 2000 before he retired in 2001.<ref name=debrett/>
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Birthday Honours 2000.<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/birthday_honours_2000/793873.stm Birthday Honours] BBC, June 2000</ref>
In retirement he became Chairman of Serco Defence & Aerospace.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3105171.ece Birthdays]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The Times, 31 December 2007</ref> He is Chairman of Hellidon Parish Council in Northamptonshire.<ref>[http://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/councillors-democracy-and-elections/council-parish-town-council-and-councillors/?entryid32=9113&char=H Parish Councils] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723045755/http://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/councillors-democracy-and-elections/council-parish-town-council-and-councillors/?entryid32=9113&char=H |date=23 July 2011 }} Daventry District Council</ref>
==Family== In 1968 he married Susan Stokes: they have two daughters.
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box|title=Assistant Chief of the Air Staff |before=Peter Squire|after=Sir Jock Stirrup|years=1996–1998}} {{succession box | title=Deputy Commander-in-Chief Strike Command | before=Graeme Robertson | after=Sir Jock Stirrup| years=1998–2000}} {{s-end}}
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