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5 Tactical Air Center Motto : Samvayi hi Durjayaha (Together we are invincible) Date Raised : 1961-06-19 Location : Tezpur 5 TAC is attached to the Gajraj Corps and was raised at Kohima. It moved to Tezpur in 1962 and remains so till date. It had brief periods during 1971 war (Comilla) and IPKF ops (Vayunia and Batticoloa) where it moved out with the Corps for ops.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 19 Jun 61 to 28 Oct 62 | Group Captain Ramdas Shivram Shipurkar | 2177 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 29 Oct 62 to 01 Aug 63 | Group Captain Anil Kanta Ganguly | 1677 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Aug 63 to 31 Jan 65 | Group Captain Arjan Singh Mangharam Bhawnani | 1868 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Feb 65 to 01 Apr 67 | Group Captain Leslie Richard Dickinson Blunt | 1994 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 23 Apr 67 to 26 Sep 67 | Group Captain Evans Lionel Birch | 3487 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 27 Sep 67 to 31 Oct 67 | Group Captain Rishab Chand Suchanti | 3466 GD(N) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Apr 68 to 01 Dec 69 | Group Captain Krishan Lal Suri | 2907 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Dec 69 to 01 Jan 73 | Group Captain Rajagopalan Krishnamurthy | 3386 GD(N) | CO | Tezpur | |
| 01 Jan 73 to 01 May 74 | Group Captain Samuel Venkatarao | 3830 GD(N) | CO | Tezpur | |
| 01 May 74 to 31 Jul 76 | Group Captain Rama Iyer Krishnamoorti | 3828 GD(N) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Aug 76 to 30 Sep 79 | Group Captain Ram Sharan Gambhir | 4560 GD(N) | CO | Tezpur | |
| 01 Dec 79 to 31 May 81 | Group Captain Hardip Singh Goraya | 4808 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Nov 81 to 31 Jan 83 | Group Captain Muhamed Abdul Rehman | 5711 GD(N) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Feb 83 to 01 Mar 85 | Group Captain R Varma | CO | Tezpur | ||
| 01 Mar 85 to 16 Nov 86 | Group Captain Raja Singh Dhanjal | 6341 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Mar 87 to 01 Oct 89 | Group Captain Tejwant Singh | 7228 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Oct 89 to 16 Mar 92 | Group Captain Balbinder Singh Marwaha | 9714 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 17 Mar 92 to 30 Jun 94 | Group Captain Vijay Kumar | 8386 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur | |
| 01 Sep 94 to 01 Jun 97 | Group Captain Narendra Pratap Sahi | 12037 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Jun 97 to 01 Jan 00 | Group Captain Ashok Kumar Malhotra | 14112 F(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Jan 00 to 01 Nov 02 | Group Captain H S Arvind Kumar | 13157 F(P) | CO | Tezpur | |
| 01 Jan 03 to 01 Jul 04 | Group Captain Ranjit Kumar Bora | 12927 F(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Jul 04 to 30 Apr 06 | Group Captain Sudhir Vishwamurti Bal | 15552 F(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 May 06 to 30 Apr 08 | Group Captain Kaushik Pathak | 15715 F(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Jun 08 to 01 Mar 09 | Group Captain Umesh Kumar | 18582 F(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Mar 09 to 01 Jun 10 | Group Captain Ashwin Keshav Puntambekar | 19210 F(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Jul 12 to 01 May 14 | Group Captain Paramvir Bakshi | 19911 F(P) | CO | Tezpur | |
| 01 Jul 17 to 30 Jun 19 | Group Captain Mahesh Balwant Upasani | 22193 F(N) | CO | Tezpur |  |
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