14 Forward Base Support Unit Date Raised : 1981-01-01 Location : Purnea Post the 1962 war, the base was established as a launching base for the siliguri corridor. Once the airfield was constructed in 1963, 5 C&MU was setup under Flt Lt GS Sachdeva. The base remained as 5 C&MU till 1974. In the Indo-Pak conflict of 1971, the airfield was used for secondary diversion during the operations. On 15 July 1973, 257 SU under the command of Wg Cdr SG Manrekar moved in and remained at Purnea till 3 May 1975. Post that a small detachment of 20 Wing looked after the base till end of 1980.14 FBSU was formed on 1 Jan 1981 and was serviced by 20 Wing untill full time personnel were based on the base by June 1981. During the early 1980s some fighter flying was carried out by Gnat / Ajeet aircraft. In 1988 the Station saw active flying of Ajeet MKI, Hunters and Type 77. Once again in October 2003, 2 Sqn with MiG-27s moved to this Base due to resurfacing at Kalaikunda and operated as a full fledged Squadron detachment till February 2005. First night flying was carried out by An-32 on 19 Aug 1987.Subsequently, IL-76 and B-737 have also operated at night.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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05 Apr 81 to 10 Aug 82 | Wing Commander Suneelkumar Sudamrao Bhonsle | 7400 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
11 Aug 82 to 16 Sep 84 | Wing Commander Narayan Seshadri | 8690 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
17 Sep 84 to 03 Nov 85 | Wing Commander H K Singh VrC | Stn Cdr | Purnea | ||
04 Nov 85 to 20 Mar 88 | Wing Commander Atul Kumar | 8772 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
21 Mar 88 to 26 Jul 92 | Wing Commander Ashok Kumar Sinha | 11597 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
27 Jul 92 to 31 May 95 | Wing Commander Subir Mitra | 10953 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
01 Jul 95 to 29 May 98 | Wing Commander Narendra Pawar | 12548 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
30 May 98 to 18 Jun 00 | Wing Commander V B S Mani | Stn Cdr | Purnea | ||
19 Jun 00 to 09 Sep 02 | Wing Commander Anil Goyal | 17337 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
10 Sep 02 to 30 Sep 03 | Wing Commander Attelli Baswaralah Narsingh Rao | 16638 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
01 Oct 03 to 16 Mar 05 | Wing Commander Praveen Vij | 17321 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
06 Aug 07 to 02 Aug 09 | Wing Commander Arjun Sen | 19155 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
03 Aug 09 to 31 Jul 11 | Wing Commander Ranjit R Varma | 20492 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Purnea | |
30 Oct 17 to 23 Mar 20 | Group Captain N Harikrishnan | 21045 F(N) | Stn Cdr | Purnea |