Air Vice Marshal Kapila Jayampathy has been promoted to the rank of Air Marshal and appointed as new Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force, the Defence Ministry said today.

Jayampathy joined Sri Lanka Air Force on 5 March 1982 as an Officer cadet and was commissioned as a Pilot officer in General Duties branch of No. 4 Squadron SLAF in 1985.

He was appointed as the Base Commander Sri Lanka Air Force Base China Bay in December 2009. When SLAF Base China Bay was upgraded and renamed as the Air Force Academy, he was re-designated as the Commandant of the Air Force Academy.