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12 Wing Date Raised : 1961-02-01 Location : Chandigarh 12 Wing was established at Chandigarh on 1 Mar 1961, playing home to the newly raised Nos 42 and 44 Squadrons. Since then it is one of the premier transport bases in the IAF. Over the years, the pride of the IAF's heavy-lift fleet - An 12s, Il-76s, Mi-26s were stationed at 12 Wing.
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| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Mar 61 to 17 Dec 62 | Group Captain Murat Singh Aulakh | 1660 GD(O) | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh |  |
| 18 Dec 62 to 11 Jan 66 | Group Captain Trilok Nath Ghadiok | 2354 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh |  |
| 12 Jan 66 to 01 Jan 69 | Air Commodore Jaspal Singh | 2451 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 02 Jan 69 to 14 Jun 72 | Air Commodore Edul Jahangir Dhatigara | 1899 GD(O) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 08 Sep 72 to 01 Jan 73 | Air Commodore Lal Singh Grewal | 2337 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 30 Jan 73 to 05 Jan 75 | Air Commodore Kenneth Hubert Larkins | 3511 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 14 Jan 75 to 13 Jan 76 | Air Commodore Jagdish Raj Bhasin | 3591 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 14 Feb 76 to 11 Apr 79 | Air Commodore Madan Mohan Arora | 3864 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 12 Apr 79 to 11 Apr 81 | Air Commodore Rajagopal Sriramulu Naidu | 4090 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 12 Apr 81 to 03 Jan 83 | Air Commodore Purushottam Laxmikant Purohit | 4581 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 04 Jan 83 to 13 Jan 85 | Air Commodore Suresh Chand | 4585 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 14 Jan 85 to 30 Nov 87 | Air Commodore Dalip Singh Sabherwal | 4756 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 01 Dec 87 to 14 Jun 89 | Air Commodore Chitta Ranjan Ghosh | 6141 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 15 Jun 89 to 30 Jun 91 | Air Commodore Gurdarshan Singh Brar | 6146 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 19 Aug 91 to 21 Jun 92 | Air Commodore Shailendra Singh Kaushik | 6766 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 22 Jun 92 to 02 Jan 94 | Air Commodore Ashok Kumar Goel | 8151 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 03 Jan 94 to 15 Sep 96 | Air Commodore Ivor Percival Alexander | 8430 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 16 Sep 96 to 10 Jan 99 | Air Commodore Ramamoorthy Vijay Kumar | 10918 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 11 Jan 99 to 02 Jan 01 | Air Commodore Shyamal Kumar Banerjee | 10941 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 04 Jan 01 to 14 Jul 02 | Air Commodore Vrittamani Srinivasaiyangar Govindarajan | 12232 GD(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 15 Jul 02 to 19 Oct 03 | Air Commodore Arun Gopinath | 13397 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 20 Oct 03 to 02 Jan 05 | Air Commodore Sanjay Sharad Kumar Tilloo | 13919 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 03 Jan 05 to 04 Jan 07 | Air Commodore Trikandiyur Kollath Venugopal | 13598 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 05 Jan 07 to 14 Oct 07 | Air Commodore Manmohan Sud | 13945 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 15 Oct 07 to 22 Dec 09 | Air Commodore Sridharan Panicker Radha Krishnan Nair | 16040 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 23 Dec 09 to 01 May 11 | Air Commodore Rajeev Sachdeva | 16582 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 02 May 11 to 01 May 13 | Air Commodore Suryakant Chintaman Chafekar | 17013 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 02 May 13 to 23 Dec 15 | Air Commodore Surendra Kumar Indoria | 18296 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 26 Dec 17 to 04 Aug 19 | Air Commodore Shivkumar Srinivasan | 19520 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
| 05 Aug 19 to | Air Commodore Tejbir Singh | 19958 F(P) | AOC | Chandigarh |  |
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