Mohammad Dawran

Mohammad Dawran (born 20 January 1954) is an Afghan former military officer as well as the former Commander of the Afghan Air Force, enlisting in 1973. He was promoted to the post in 2005 by Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and the Commander-in-Chief Bismillah Khan Mohammadi. The new commander of the Afghan Air Force, Amanuddin Mansoor, was appointed in December 2021. Dawran became an air force pilot in 1976 and was one of two people selected for the 1988 Soyuz TM-6, the sixth crewed spacecraft to visit the Soviet Space Station Mir. Instead of Dawran, Abdul Ahad Momand was chosen, which became his second space journey, as Dawran had appendicitis. Dawran is married and has six children.