Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee

Thai military officer

Marshal of the Air ForceFuen RitthakhaneeMPCh, MVM, ThChW
Fuen in 1954

Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
In office 2 August 1955 – 16 September 1957Serving with Prayoon Yuthasastrkosol
Prime Minister	Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Preceded by	Phin Choonhavan Muni Mahasantana Wechayantrangsarit Boonkerd Sutantanon
Succeeded by	Wan Waithayakon Praphas Charusathien Sukich Nimmanheminda
Minister of Transport
In office 6 December 1951 – 2 August 1955
Prime Minister	Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Preceded by	Sawat Sawatranachai Sawatdikiat
Succeeded by	Muni Mahasantana Wechayantrangsarit
Minister of Public Health
In office 31 March – 16 September 1957
Prime Minister	Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Preceded by	Prayoon Pamornmontri
Succeeded by	Luang Chaloem Khamphirawet
4th Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Air Force
In office 1949–1957
Preceded by	Luang Thewarit Pan Luek
Succeeded by	Chalermkiat Watanangura

Personal details
Born	(1900-02-21)21 February 1900 Phra Nakhon district, Phra Nakhon, Siam (now Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand)
Died	8 July 1987(1987-07-08) (aged 87)
Military service
Allegiance	Thailand
Branch/service	Royal Thai Air Force
Years of service	1914–1961
Rank	General Admiral Marshal of the Air Force
Commands	Commander-in-Chief
Wars	World War II

Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee (Thai: ฟื้น รณนภากาศ ฤทธาคนี) (21 February 1900 – 8 July 1987) was a Royal Thai Air Force officer who served as the Commander of the Royal Thai Air Force from 1949 to 1957. In July 1951, Ritthakhanee became Minister of Transport and in 1955 he was elevated to the position of Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand. Relinquishing the Deputy Prime Ministership in 1957, he briefly served as Minister of Health that year.

In 1947 he was one of the group of senior officers who planned and carried out the Siamese coup d'état.

On 13 December 1949 Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee took over as Commander of the Royal Thai Air Force, replacing Air Marshal Luang Tevaritpunluok. He continued in the Air Force's senior post until 1957.

In 1953, Air Chief Marshal Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee founded the Royal Thai Air Force Academy, albeit on a temporary basis. Four years later in 1957, Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee who was by then a marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force and its Commander, returned to the Academy laying its foundation stone during a ceremony which marked its permanent establishment.

In the 1960s Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee was the chairman of the United Flour Mill Public Company Limited, Thailand's first wheat flour mill. Fuen was retired at the Supreme Command Headquarters in 1961. He died on 8 July 1987, at the age of 87.