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'{{Short description|Bangladeshi Air Force officer (1944–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox military person | honorific prefix = [[Air Vice Marshal]] (retd.) | name = Sultan Mahmud | native_name = সুলতান মাহমুদ | birth_date = {{birth date|1944|5|3|}} | birth_place = [[Feni, Bangladesh|Feni]], [[Noakhali District|Noakhali]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]], [[British Raj|British India]] (Now, [[Feni District]], [[Chittagong Division|Chittagong]], [[Bangladesh]]) | death_date = {{death date and given age|2023|08|14|79|5|3|df=y}} | death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh | placeofburial = | placeofburial_label = | image = | width = | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = {{PAK}} (Before 1971)<br>{{BAN}} | branch = {{air force|Pakistan}}<br>{{air force|Bangladesh}} | serviceyears = 1954-1987 | rank = [[File:British RAF OF-7.svg|20px]] [[Air Vice Marshal]]<br>[[File:BAF Air Vice-Marshal Star Plate.svg|20px]] | unit = [[No. 6 Squadron PAF]] | battles = [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] | awards = {{flagicon image|Bir Uttom ribbon bar.svg|20px}} [[Bir Uttom]]<br />[[File:Independence Day Award Ribbon (Bangladesh).svg|30px]] [[Independence Day Award]] | laterwork = }} [[Air Vice Marshal]] '''Sultan Mahmud''', [[Bir Uttom]] (1944 – 14 August 2023) was a former chief of the [[Bangladesh Air Force]] and a former deputy chief martial law administrator.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ershad wanted to grab power after Zia killing|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/ershad-wanted-to-grab-power-after-zia-killing-22484|work=The Daily Star|access-date=25 November 2016|date=3 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015023051280?urlappend=%3Bseq=7%3Bownerid=13510798900610059-11 |title=Daily Report China |publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service |year=1985 |edition= |volume=129 |pages=F1 |language=en}}</ref> He is considered{{By whom|date=August 2023}} one of the founders of Bangladesh's Air Force.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} He later served as minister of Industries.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lal |first=Shiv |url=https://archive.org/details/politicsinsoutha0001shiv/page/156/mode/2up |title=Politics in South Asia |publisher=New Delhi : Election Archives |year=1989 |pages=155–156 |language=en}}</ref> He received the [[Independence Day Award]] from the [[Government of Bangladesh]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/2-more-named-bangladesh-independence-day-award-2018-1550902|title=2 more named for Independence Award|date=20 March 2018|work=The Daily Star|access-date=29 August 2018}}</ref> ==Life and career== Mahmud was chief of the Bangladesh Air Force from 23 July 1981 to 22 July 1987. On 24 March 1982, he was appointed deputy chief martial law administrator by President [[Hussain Mohammad Ershad]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Ershad's takeover also illegal|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-152462|work=The Daily Star|access-date=25 November 2016|date=27 August 2010}}</ref> On 1 June 1986, he was placed in charge of the Ministry of Industries.<ref name=":0" /> In 1992 he was charged with corruption after the government of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad relinquished power.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ershad trial deadline Mar 31 |work=The Financial Express |location=Dhaka |url=http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/11/24/54152/Ershad-trial-deadline-Mar-31 |access-date=15 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606221530/http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/11/24/54152/Ershad-trial-deadline-Mar-31 |archive-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> He was acquitted of these charges 24 years later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ershad acquitted |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/13867/index.php |access-date=15 August 2023 |website=New Age {{!}} The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in Bangladesh |language=en}}</ref> Sultan Mahmud died in Dhaka on 14 August 2023, at the age of 79.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Chief of Air Staff Bir Uttam Sultan Mahmud passes away |url=https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/national/former-chief-of-air-staff-bir-uttam-sultan-mahmud-passes-away |access-date=15 August 2023 |publisher=The Financial Express |date=15 August 2023}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Bir Uttom}} {{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Air Vice Marshal [[Sadruddin Mohammad Hossain]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Chief of Air Staff (Bangladesh)|Chief of Air Staff]]|years=1981 &ndash; 1987}} {{s-aft|after=Air Vice Marshal [[Momtaz Uddin Ahmed]]}} {{end}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mahmud, Sultan}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2023 deaths]] [[Category:Bangladesh Air Force air marshals]] [[Category:Chiefs of Air Staff (Bangladesh)]] [[Category:Recipients of the Independence Day Award]] [[Category:Mukti Bahini personnel]] [[Category:People from Feni District]] {{Bangladesh-mil-bio-stub}}'