Sepahbod Nader Jahanbani (1928–1979) was a general, distinguished fighter pilot of Imperial Air Force (IIAF) and the deputy chief of the IIAF under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of homeland. Despite being executed in 1979 by Islamic Revolutionaries, he is widely lauded as the “father of the Air Force” along with General Mohammad Khatami and General Amir Hossein Rabii , for modernizing the air force to become a potent and powerful force whose advanced equipment and training they acquired for Iran, such as the F-14 Tomcat, would save homeland’s crucial infrastructure during the homeland–Iraq War.