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23 Equipment Depot Location : Avadi 23 Equipment Depot at Avadi (Chennai) dates back to World War II. Christened in December 1944 as 337 Maintenance Units under the Royal Indian Air Force, it functioned as a Supply Point and a Storage Depot for South-East Asia. It was renamed twice over as No. 3 Equipment Depot in September 1947 and 23 Equipment Depot in March 1966.
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Unit previously existed as 3 ED
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Mar 66 to 09 Nov 66 | Group Captain Alexander Sathyanathan Joseph Henry | 1643 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Avadi |  |
| 10 Dec 66 to 31 Dec 69 | Group Captain Gurdial Singh Paul | 1941 A&SD | Stn Cdr | Avadi |  |
| 16 Jan 70 to 04 Jun 72 | Group Captain Hiranand Nandiram Mansukhani | 1571 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Avadi |  |
| 15 Jul 72 to 25 May 74 | Group Captain Sambasivan Sundaram | 2420 BALL | Stn Cdr | Avadi | |
| 01 Aug 74 to 15 Nov 76 | Group Captain Hari Vinayak Phatak | 2088 BALL | Stn Cdr | Avadi |  |
| 16 Nov 76 to 01 Jan 79 | Group Captain Ram Lalji Bhalla | 3679 A&SD | Stn Cdr | Avadi | |
| 26 Mar 79 to 22 Dec 80 | Group Captain Brij Bhushan Sharma | 4095 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Avadi |  |
| 05 Jan 81 to 02 Dec 83 | Group Captain Chaman Lal Anand Malik | 4833 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Avadi |  |
| 03 Dec 83 to 25 Nov 84 | Group Captain Debabrata Choudhury | 4759 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Avadi |  |
| 26 Nov 84 to 25 Apr 86 | Air Commodore Debabrata Choudhury | 4759 GD(P) | AOC | Avadi | |
| 10 Jun 86 to 31 Aug 89 | Air Commodore Hemachandra Sathpathy | 5518 A&SD | AOC | Avadi | |
| 01 Sep 89 to 31 Dec 90 | Air Commodore Mirnal Kanti Som | 5637 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Jan 91 to 26 Jan 92 | Air Commodore Kumud Kishore Jain | 5810 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 27 Jan 92 to 30 Sep 93 | Air Commodore Kadavil Ravivaraman Radhakrishnan | 6162 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Oct 93 to 28 Feb 95 | Air Commodore Shailendra Shankar Saxena | 7512 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Mar 95 to 30 Sep 96 | Air Commodore Trilok Chand | 8047 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Oct 96 to 01 Feb 98 | Air Commodore Ramesh Chandra Mahadik | 8570 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 18 Feb 98 to 31 Jul 99 | Air Commodore Narayan Sivaramakrishnan | 11084 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Aug 99 to 31 Jul 01 | Air Commodore Naiyer Iqbal Razzaqui | 9642 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Aug 01 to 28 Nov 02 | Air Commodore Harendrajit Singh Garkal | 11780 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 29 Nov 02 to 31 Dec 04 | Air Commodore Sudip Mondal | 12164 A&SD | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 13 Jan 05 to 06 Aug 06 | Air Commodore Ashok Kumar | 13225 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 07 Aug 06 to 14 Apr 08 | Air Commodore Gudipudi Rajendra Prasad | 13236 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 15 Apr 08 to 05 Feb 09 | Air Commodore Rajagopal Sitaraman | 14713 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 06 Apr 09 to 08 Nov 10 | Air Commodore Herikudru Babu Rajaram | 14939 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 10 Nov 10 to 30 Nov 11 | Air Commodore Chandalingappa Sannachandappa Havaldar | 16256 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Dec 11 to 21 Dec 13 | Air Commodore Pradeep Padmakar Bapat | 17227 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 30 Dec 13 to 31 May 16 | Air Commodore Pichai Ramesh | 17060 ADM | AOC | Avadi | |
| 01 Jun 16 to 31 Oct 18 | Air Commodore Amarjeet Ahuja | 17743 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 01 Nov 18 to 04 Jul 19 | Air Commodore Jonnalagaddar Rajendra | 18150 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
| 05 Jul 19 to 23 May 21 | Air Commodore Dinesh Singh Dagar | 18323 ADM | AOC | Avadi | |
| 24 May 21 to 27 Jun 23 | Air Commodore S Sivakumar | 20205 ADM | AOC | Avadi |  |
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