41 Wing Date Raised : 1984-01-12 Location : Jaisalmer The imperatives of 1965 war influenced the country to fill the void in the defences in Rajasthan sector and thus came the airfield at Jaisalmer in 1970. Started as No. 14 Care and Maintenance Units. After the 1971 war it was decided to upgrade the airfield and 4 FBSU came into existence on 7 Aug 1972 which was placed under the functional control of 32 Wing, Jodhpur. Initial role was to provide staging facilities to fighter and bomber aircraft. Subsequently in 1979, Armament Training Camp was setup to exploit the Pokhran range in the vicinity. The station was designated to function as provision for flying facilities by day and night for visiting detachments for Air to Ground firing at the Range. 3 AFRU was setup in 1982. The base was reassigned later as 41 Wing Air Force on 12 Jan 1984.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Mar 84 to 13 Oct 85 | Group Captain Vishnu Narain Johri | 5676 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
14 Oct 85 to 07 Oct 87 | Group Captain Amariit Singh Sandhu | 7703 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
04 Jan 87 to 03 Jan 90 | Group Captain Pradip Kantilal Gandhi | 8142 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
04 Jan 90 to 22 Dec 91 | Group Captain Balakrishna Menon | 11307 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
23 Dec 91 to 16 Dec 93 | Group Captain Narendra Minocha | 9513 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
17 Dec 93 to 19 Sep 95 | Group Captain Ashok Kumar Brahmawar | 10889 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
20 Sep 95 to 21 Dec 97 | Group Captain Saravjit Singh Hothi | 12215 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
12 Jan 98 to 31 Jan 00 | Group Captain Keshav Gopal Bewoor | 13570 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
01 Feb 00 to 18 Nov 01 | Group Captain Rakesh Kumar Jolly | 14083 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
19 Nov 01 to 31 Jul 03 | Group Captain Jasvinder Chauhan | 14079 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
01 Aug 03 to 20 Apr 05 | Group Captain Sandip Sud | 15685 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
21 Apr 05 to 31 Oct 06 | Group Captain Anil Khosla | 15871 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
01 Nov 06 to 20 Apr 08 | Group Captain Mohan Kumar Rao | 17343 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
21 Apr 08 to 02 May 10 | Group Captain Prasad V Gadgil | 18093 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
03 May 10 to 10 Apr 11 | Group Captain Rajiva Ranjan | 18810 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
11 Apr 11 to 14 May 13 | Air Commodore Sudhanshu Rath | 15726 F(P) | AOC | Jaisalmer | |
15 May 13 to 31 Aug 15 | Air Commodore Chandramouli | 16984 F(P) | AOC | Jaisalmer | |
01 Sep 15 to 25 Dec 17 | Air Commodore Debashish Vedajna | 19539 F(P) | AOC | Jaisalmer | |
26 Dec 17 to 13 May 18 | Group Captain Monder Bandyopadhaya | 20127 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Jaisalmer | |
14 May 18 to 18 Aug 19 | Air Commodore Monder Bandyopadhaya | 20127 F(P) | AOC | Jaisalmer |