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26 Wing Date Raised : 1968-05-01 Location : Thane 26 Wing was raised at Thane in May 1968 as a Surface to Air Missile Establishment tasked with protecting Bombay and environs. It operated with 2 Combat and one tech SAGW sqns. The Wing is spread across three pcokets namely main base at Thane , AF Sheva and Karave
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 17 Apr 72 to 31 May 72 | Group Captain Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar | 3484 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 19 Sep 81 to 31 Jan 83 | Group Captain S N Srinivasan | Stn Cdr | Thane | ||
| 01 Sep 83 to 17 Aug 85 | Group Captain Sharadchandra Naresh Deshpande | 5452 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 14 Oct 85 to 25 Nov 87 | Group Captain Nitin Gajanan Junnarkar | 7477 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 26 Nov 87 to 30 Nov 88 | Group Captain Harbans Perminder Singh | 7485 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 09 Dec 88 to 26 Apr 92 | Group Captain Satish Kapoor | 6774 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 24 Jul 92 to 31 Dec 92 | Group Captain Raghbir Singh | 10243 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Thane | |
| 11 Jan 93 to 02 May 96 | Group Captain Ashok Gajanan Chitre | 10959 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Thane | |
| 03 May 96 to 12 Jan 98 | Group Captain Ram Mohan Shridharan | 12033 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 30 Mar 98 to 10 Jun 01 | Group Captain Raj Singh Kataria | 13946 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 16 Aug 01 to 14 Oct 03 | Group Captain Vinod Kumar Sood | 13781 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane | |
| 15 Oct 03 to 10 Oct 06 | Group Captain Pandurang Narayana Pradhan | 16403 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane |  |
| 11 Oct 06 to 11 Oct 08 | Group Captain Virendra Kumar Khorana | 16221 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane | |
| 24 Nov 08 to 24 Sep 10 | Group Captain Lalan Kumar | 18596 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Thane | |
| 25 Sep 10 to 08 Jul 12 | Group Captain Akhil Kumar Gupta | 18316 ADM | Stn Cdr | Thane | |
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