title: Richard Mason (RAF officer)
text: # Richard Mason (RAF officer)
  
  Air Commodore Richard David Mason OBE is a Royal Air Force officer.
  
  ## RAF career
  
  Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Mason was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 4 July 1985. After taking part in Operation Barras in September 2000 and subsequently in the War in Afghanistan, he became Station Commander at RAF Benson in 2010 and Capability Director at Joint Helicopter Command in 2014.
  
  He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 New Year Honours.
  
  