A Starfighter Commander designated an officer within the Imperial Navy who received an assignment to oversee and direct the Imperial Starfighter Corps from their station on an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. An example includes Senior Lieutenant Yve on the Chimaera, who, acting under instructions from Commodore Thrawn, instructed Special Unit One to execute low-altitude passes near a pair of CR90 corvettes belonging to the Botajef Defense Force during the Battle for Botajef. Wyl Lark, a New Republic pilot, also possessed the title of Starfighter Commander while leading a starfighter wing on the New Republic modified Star Destroyer Deliverance.
The Starfighter Commander role was initially introduced in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn novel, published in 2017.