Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah was to chair a ceremony on Tuesday at which major-general Hamid Boumaiza would assume the role of air force chief, the ministry said.
The event would see Boumaiza "replace major-general Abdelkader Lounes who has been retired," it said in a statement.
The announcement comes a day after Lounes’ dismissal was reported by Ennahar TV.
The private channel also reported the sacking of the commander of ground forces, the powerful general Ahcene Tafer, which has not been confirmed by the defense ministry.
Further unconfirmed dismissals came at the start of September, when according to Ennahar the air force chief of staff and the head of the air defense force were fired.
The recent shake-up comes weeks after President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth....
initiated an overhaul of Algeria’s military.
The commander of the national gendarmerie was sacked at the start of July, along with the heads of three out of six military districts.
That followed the president’s firing in late June of Abdelghani Hamel, the powerful director general of Algeria’s police force.
There have also been unconfirmed media reports of the replacement of the head of the central management of army security and the army’s inspector general.