![]() No.3 Squadron Cobras Motto : Lakshya Ved (Destroy target with Precision) Date Raised : 1941-10-01 Location : Nal Read Detailed History
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Oct 41 to 13 Apr 42 | Squadron Leader NAN Bray | RAF | CO | Peshawar | |
28 Sep 47 to 09 Dec 47 | Squadron Leader Anand Ramdas Pandit | 1707 F(P) | CO | Pune | |
10 Dec 47 to 11 Feb 49 | Squadron Leader Kasargod Sadanand Bhat | 1747 GD(P) | CO | Pune | |
12 Feb 49 to 28 Apr 50 | Squadron Leader Kenneth Merals David | 1863 GD(O) | CO | Pune | |
11 May 50 to 14 Jul 52 | Squadron Leader John Ivor McKenzie | 1806 GD(P) | CO | Pune/ Halwara/ Ambal | |
15 Jul 52 to 29 Dec 53 | Squadron Leader Anant Vemanrao Samsi | 1865 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
30 Dec 53 to 15 Apr 55 | Squadron Leader John Jasper Bouche | 2938 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
16 Apr 55 to 21 Oct 55 | Squadron Leader Suranjan Das | 3175 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
22 Oct 55 to 30 Apr 57 | Squadron Leader Maheshwar Das Khanna | 2776 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
01 May 57 to 14 Apr 59 | Squadron Leader Subhas Ranjan Bose | 3152 F(P) | CO | Ambala/ Kalaikunda | |
15 Apr 59 to 13 Dec 61 | Squadron Leader Om Prakash Taneja | 3843 F(P) | CO | Kalaikunda | |
14 Apr 42 to 15 Aug 42 | Squadron Leader Mehar Singh | 1559 GD(P) | CO | Peshawar | |
14 Dec 61 to 21 Nov 62 | Squadron Leader Patrick Russell Earle | 3965 GD(P) | CO | Kalaikunda | |
22 Nov 62 to 03 Apr 65 | Wing Commander Regionald Louis Sayce | 3086 GD(P) | CO | Kalaikunda/ Pathanko | |
05 Apr 65 to 11 Sep 65 | Wing Commander Paul Cecil Roby | 3479 GD(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
12 Sep 65 to 25 Sep 67 | Wing Commander Surapati Bhattacharya | 3974 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
26 Sep 67 to 26 Dec 68 | Wing Commander Kalyan Krishna Kurane | 4426 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
17 Aug 69 to 11 Jun 71 | Wing Commander Pattathil Venugopal | 4431 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
12 Jun 71 to 04 Dec 73 | Wing Commander Rabindar Nath Dogra | 4725 F(P) | CO | Pathankot/ Hindan | |
01 Feb 74 to 11 Apr 75 | Wing Commander Tekkidath Vijayan Nair Vijayan | 5009 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
02 May 75 to 11 Aug 76 | Wing Commander Madan Mohan Sharma | 5108 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
21 Aug 76 to 20 Jan 79 | Wing Commander Dinanath Ramchander Nadkarni | 5587 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
16 Aug 42 to 25 Aug 42 | Flight Lieutenant Diwan Atma Ram Nanda | 1562 GD(P) | CO | Peshawar | |
22 Jan 79 to 21 Jun 81 | Wing Commander Udaysingh Vyankatoar Lagad | 6015 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
22 Jun 81 to 29 May 83 | Wing Commander Anil Kumar Trikha | 8436 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
30 May 83 to 19 May 85 | Wing Commander Gurumurthy Balasubramanian | 8445 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
17 Jun 85 to 07 Oct 87 | Wing Commander Dasharathy Dayakar | 10908 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
16 Oct 87 to 16 Oct 89 | Wing Commander Rabin Kumar Ghosh | 11306 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
17 Oct 89 to 02 Dec 91 | Wing Commander Anup Kumar Shyam | 12065 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
03 Dec 91 to 26 Dec 93 | Wing Commander Bidanda Chengapa Nanjappa | 13246 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
27 Dec 93 to 16 Jul 95 | Wing Commander Tejender Pal Singh Gill | 13767 F(P) | CO | Pathankot | |
17 Jul 95 to 13 Jul 97 | Wing Commander Dipanjan Roy Chowdhury | 14678 F(P) | CO | Pathankot/ Ambala | |
14 Jul 97 to 29 Aug 99 | Wing Commander Anup Ghosh | 15563 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
26 Aug 42 to 12 Sep 43 | Squadron Leader Diwan Atma Ram Nanda | 1562 GD(P) | CO | Peshawar | |
30 Aug 99 to 22 Jul 01 | Wing Commander Kalianda Appaya Muthana | 16372 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
23 Jul 01 to 08 Dec 02 | Wing Commander Ravinder Kumar Dhir | 15678 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
09 Dec 02 to 06 Mar 05 | Wing Commander Harish Nayani | 17135 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
07 Mar 05 to 06 May 07 | Wing Commander Dhananjai Vishnu Wani | 18568 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
07 May 07 to | Wing Commander Manish Kumar Gupta | 20439 F(P) | CO | Ambala | |
13 Sep 43 to 06 Jan 45 | Squadron Leader Prithipal Singh | 1578 GD(P) | CO | Peshawar | |
08 Jan 45 to 27 Dec 45 | Squadron Leader Shivdev Singh | 1595 F(P) | CO | Peshawar | |
28 Dec 45 to 27 Mar 46 | Squadron Leader Om Prakash Mehra | 1639 F(P) | CO | Kohat | |
01 Apr 46 to 30 Dec 46 | Squadron Leader Ramchander Atmaram | 1583 GD(P) | CO | Kohat | |
31 Dec 46 to 28 Aug 47 | Squadron Leader Mohan Dev Suri | 1655 GD(P) | CO | Kohat |