No. 443 Flight was temporarily split into two, with No. 443A Flight remaining at Leuchars while No. 443B Flight was attached to the China Station. Bladon commanded No. 443B Flight, until the Flight was reunited, then returned to No. 421 Flight. From 31 August 1928 he served of the Staff at RAF Gosport. Bladon was posted to RAF Base at Singapore on 22 September 1933. On 1 October 1935 he was promoted to squadron leader. On 9 April 1937 Bladon was appointed Officer Commanding of No. 42 Squadron, flying Vickers Vildebeest Mk.IV torpedo bombers from RAF Donibristle, Fife, Scotland. He was promoted to wing commander on 1 November 1938, and on 29 December was posted to the Air Staff at the Deputy Directorate of Operations (Naval Co-operation). World War II Bladon served as a staff officer during the Second World War, being posted to the Directorate of War Training and Tactics on 3 January 1940, then to the Directorate of Operational Training in July. He was promoted to the temporary rank of group captain on 1 March 1941, and was posted to the headquarters of Flying Training Command on 15 April 1942. His rank of group captain was made substantive on 1 December 1944. Post-war and Ceylon In 1946 Bladon was appointed Commander of the RAF Base at Singapore, and later served as Staff Officer (Administration) at the Air Headquarters Malaya. On 1 September 1948 Bladon was appointed Senior Air Staff Officer of No. 62 (Southern Reserve) Group in Reserve Command. The Royal Ceylon Air Force was officially founded in 1949, but work on its creation did not begin until Bladon was appointed Air Adviser to the Government of Ceylon on 16 May 1950. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1951 New Year Honours. Bladon became the first Commander of the Royal Ceylon Air Force on 2 March 1951, setting up his headquarters initially at the Galle Face Hotel. In creating a military organisation from scratch, he relied on a core of seconded RAF officers and NCOs, and Ceylonese personnel who had served with the RAF during the war. In 1952 the RCyAF consisted of eight officers and 100 airmen, but by 1955 had its Headquarters and Maintenance Unit at Colombo, and flying units based at Katunayake and Diyatalawa operating Chipmunk, Balliol and Oxford aircraft, used both for training and also army