About Us

Airforce is one of the UK’s most well-known and established producers of radio commercials and advertising music.

Founded in the early eighties, we help advertisers large and small make a noticeable improvement to their on-air sound and help maximise the effectiveness of every campaign.

Airforce draws upon a large and diverse pool of writers, composers, musicians, producers and voices. Whatever your budget, you’ll have access to people who really know their stuff.

John Calvert - Managing Director

John's career in broadcast advertising started at Mercury FM in Crawley in 1984. It was at this time when he was introduced to Airforce. Knocked back by what he heard, John ensured that Airforce worked with him as much as possible on future music & commercial production projects.

In the late 80's, John's career progressed to becoming Creative Director for Essex FM's highly successful Creative Team. During this time, he picked up a bundle of awards for his expertise in radio advertising and audio production. These included the Independent Radio Advertising Awards, Sony Awards, International Radio Festival of New York, Creative Circle Honours and many more.

In 1996, John joined Airforce. John rose through the ranks to become Creative Director and then Managing Director. Then in the late spring of 2005, a deal was struck for John to acquire the Airforce brand.

John is ‘the voice of radio advertising’ in the industry publication ‘The Radio Magazine’. He is also in demand as a keynote speaker at seminars on broadcast advertising and has also lectured at the UK’s leading university for Media Studies: Bournemouth University.

John lives with his fiancée in Wiltshire. He has two children and a cat called Dave.