4 Equipment Depot Date Raised : 1948-08-19 Disbanded : 1966-12-12 Location : Manauri 302 Maintenance Units was established in 1939 at Allahabad. During 1942, it was converted into a Universal Equipment Depot, the first ever such Depot in South East Asia as per RAF records, to sustain the air operations of Allied Forces during the Second World War. In 1948 the Depot was renamed as 4 Equipment Depot and was rechristened as 24 Equipment Depot in year 1966. Traversing through the days of providing spares support to aircrafts such as Tempest, Spitfire, Gnat, Marut, Canberra and Hunter aircraft, 24 Equipment Depot now stores spares for Jaguar, Avro and Dornier aircraft, Chetak / Chetah and Cheetal Helicopters, ALH and RPA.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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19 Aug 48 to 15 Mar 52 | Squadron Leader Pritam Singh | 1784 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
16 Mar 52 to 17 Feb 54 | Wing Commander Rameshwar Das Khanna | 1972 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
18 Feb 54 to 14 Jul 54 | Squadron Leader Dilip Kumar Sen | 2320 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
15 Jul 54 to 22 Nov 55 | Wing Commander Harbans Krishan Khanna | 1632 GD(P) | CO | Manauri | |
02 Dec 55 to 05 Jul 58 | Wing Commander Srijoyananda Patnaik | 1785 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
06 Aug 58 to 27 Nov 59 | Wing Commander Rattan Lall Suri | 1974 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
28 Nov 59 to 18 Jan 61 | Wing Commander Ram Narain Sharma | 2012 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
19 Jan 61 to 27 Jun 62 | Wing Commander Prabhu Narayan Khanna | 2666 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
19 Jan 61 to 27 Jun 62 | Group Captain Nirod Kumar Sengupta | 2047 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
14 Jan 65 to 13 Dec 66 | Group Captain Katikannikathanam Thatachariar Vasudevan | 2397 A&SD | CO | Manauri |