258 Signal Unit Skyguards Date Raised : 1967-04-04 Location : Gandhinagar Nicknamed the "Sky Guards", A mobile radar Units currently operating the P-40(MI) Radar stationed in SWAC. The SU was raised on 4 April 1967 on the P-30M radar at Gorakhpur as GCI for 505 SU. The Units has moved many places - Rampurhat, Bareilly, Bihta, Ahmedabad, Baroda and came to Gandhinagar in Dec 1974. Subsequently moved in 1981 to Baroda, Khambhaliya, Naliya and Trivandrum before coming back to Gandhinagar in 1987
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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04 Apr 67 to | Wing Commander Kannothra Mathews Mathews | 3358 GD(P) | CO | Gorakhpur | |
Unknown to | Wing Commander Om Prakash Mahajan | 4647 GD(N) | CO | Bihta | |
Unknown to 01 May 76 | Wing Commander Har Kishan Lal Saxena | 4907 GD(P) | CO | Bihta/ Gandinagar |