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Jon Crossley

Current Royal Air Force CASWO

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ31210031 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jon Crossley is a senior warrant officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as Chief of the Air Staff's Warrant Officer from 2016 to 2019.

Military career

Crossley joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in November 1985. He trained as a plotter air photographer at RAF Wyton. From June 2014 to October 2016, he served as Station Warrant Officer of Royal Air Force College Cranwell.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jon Crossley” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.