No.107 Helicopter Unit Desert Hawks Motto : Apatsu Mitram (A friend in time of need) Date Raised : 1960-01-01 Location : Jodhpur The Units was raised in January 1960 at Srinagar. It was initially established for S-62 and Bell 47 G-3 helicopters. In November 1961 when MI-4 helicopters were inducted into the IAF, this was the first Units received the present fleet of MI-8s on 1 February 1981.
Aircraft Types operated over the years: |
Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Jan 60 to 16 Jul 61 | Squadron Leader Arnold Sochindranath Williams | 3950 GD(P) | CO | Srinagar | |
17 Jul 61 to 12 Aug 62 | Squadron Leader Maheshwar Sarup Kapoor | 4096 GD(P) | CO | ||
13 Aug 62 to 24 Jul 64 | Squadron Leader Surya Kant Badhwar | 3973 GD(P) | CO | ||
25 Jul 64 to 06 Aug 64 | Squadron Leader Arvind Dalaya | 4025 GD(P) | CO | ||
17 Aug 64 to 08 Oct 67 | Squadron Leader Bhagat Singh Bakhshi | 4597 GD(P) | CO | ||
09 Oct 67 to 28 Feb 71 | Squadron Leader Ravindra Nath Luther | 5285 GD(P) | CO | ||
01 Mar 71 to 31 Jan 74 | Squadron Leader Lalit Kumar Dutta | 6506 GD(P) | CO | ||
15 Feb 74 to 24 Aug 75 | Squadron Leader Kenneth Rodney Dutton | 5873 GD(P) | CO | ||
25 May 76 to 19 Jun 77 | Squadron Leader Jawahar Lal Kochhar | 5796 GD(P) | CO | ||
20 Jun 77 to 28 Feb 79 | Squadron Leader Harjit Singh Bedi | 7603 GD(P) | CO | ||
28 Mar 79 to 24 Oct 80 | Wing Commander Brij Mohan Datta | 5319 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
20 Nov 80 to 08 Mar 83 | Wing Commander Manjit Singh Dhillon | 7021 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
07 Mar 83 to 05 May 85 | Wing Commander Gulzarinder Singh Braich | 8762 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
06 May 85 to 21 Dec 86 | Wing Commander Jatinder Singh | 11273 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
22 Dec 86 to 13 Nov 88 | Wing Commander Arun Kumar Saxena | 11312 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
14 Nov 88 to 19 Oct 92 | Wing Commander Ashok Kumar Bharadwaj | 12011 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
19 Oct 92 to 02 Jun 95 | Wing Commander Pramod Kumar Roy | 14100 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
03 Jul 95 to 15 Jun 97 | Wing Commander Raghvinder Nath Joshi | 15432 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
20 Oct 97 to 12 Sep 99 | Wing Commander Samba Siva Rao | 15879 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
13 Sep 99 to 09 Sep 01 | Wing Commander Rajeev Sharma | 17004 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
10 Sep 01 to 22 Jun 03 | Wing Commander Pankaj Vishnoi | 17347 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
23 Jun 03 to 26 Jun 05 | Wing Commander Umesh Kumar | 18582 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
27 Jun 05 to 17 Sep 06 | Wing Commander Shashi Kant Mishra | 19570 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
18 Sep 06 to 05 Oct 08 | Wing Commander Samir Jayasinha Pendse | 20495 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
18 Jul 11 to 23 Jun 13 | Wing Commander Anupam Kathuria | 22964 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur |