About Eric Kenny
Eric Kenny was a Canadian military officer and fighter pilot.
Lieutenant-General Eric Jean Kenny is a senior Royal Canadian Air Force officer who served as Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force from 2022 to 2025.
Military career Kenny joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989. After training as a fighter pilot on the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet, he became commander of 4 Wing Cold Lake in 2014 and, in that capacity, was deployed as commander of the Air Task Force–Iraq in Kuwait between October 2014 and April 2015. He went on to be Deputy Commander at 1 Canadian Air Division in Winnipeg in 2016, Director General of Air Readiness at Headquarters Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa in 2018 and commander of 1 Canadian Air Division in July 2020.
On 10 July 2025, Kenny retired from the Royal Canadian Air Force, passing his position as the Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force to Jamie Speiser-Blanchet.
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Royal Canadian Air Force officer
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