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 No.59 Squadron Hornbills Motto : Nishta Dhairya Parisramah (Loyalty Boldness and Hard work) Date Raised : 1959-11-20 Location : Guwahati
Aircraft Types operated over the years: |
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Feb 60 to 07 Apr 62 | Squadron Leader Appasaheb Bhagwant Patil | 3242 GD(P) | CO | Jorhat |  |
| 02 Apr 62 to 01 Feb 63 | Squadron Leader Percy Edward Harrington | 3239 GD(P) | CO | Jorhat/ Dinjan |  |
| 26 Apr 63 to 13 Jun 65 | Squadron Leader Gursewak Singh Sidhu | 3418 GD(P) | CO | Dinjan |  |
| 14 Jun 65 to 12 Jan 68 | Squadron Leader Krishna Kumar Gupta | 4621 GD(P) | CO | Dinjan/ Chabua | |
| 13 Jan 68 to 13 Aug 70 | Squadron Leader Austin Lester Mendanha | 4710 GD(P) | CO | Chabua |  |
| 14 Aug 70 to 16 Dec 73 | Squadron Leader Ravindra Sahai | 5861 GD(P) | CO | Chabua |  |
| 26 Jan 73 to 12 Mar 76 | Squadron Leader Jogendra Chandra Hazarika | 5869 GD(P) | CO | Chabua |  |
| 13 Mar 76 to 20 Aug 78 | Squadron Leader Prakash Sadanand Kalalvar | 8950 GD(P) | CO | Chabua |  |
| 21 Aug 78 to 23 Aug 81 | Squadron Leader Sudhir Diwakar Manjerakar | 9433 GD(P) | CO | Chabua | |
| 24 Aug 81 to 23 Jul 84 | Wing Commander Ashutosh Kumar Tripathi | 8686 GD(P) | CO | Chabua |  |
| 13 Aug 84 to 07 Oct 84 | Squadron Leader Shiv Prakash Verma | 11353 GD(P) | CO | Chabua |  |
| 08 Oct 84 to 18 May 86 | Wing Commander Shiv Prakash Verma | 11353 GD(P) | CO | Chabua | |
| 07 Aug 86 to 23 Nov 87 | Wing Commander Vijaykumar Vishnu Shrotriya | 9732 GD(P) | CO | Chabua/ Guwahati | |
| 24 Nov 87 to 16 May 90 | Wing Commander Tejinder Singh | 9535 GD(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 21 May 90 to 23 May 93 | Wing Commander Bhupinder Lakhanpal | 11425 GD(P) | CO | Guwahati |  |
| 24 May 93 to 02 Jul 95 | Wing Commander Satish Pal Singh | 13770 F(P) | CO | Guwahati |  |
| 03 Jul 95 to 07 Jun 97 | Wing Commander Codanda Chitrajit Cariappa | 15038 F(P) | CO | Guwahati |  |
| 30 Mar 98 to 03 Jan 99 | Wing Commander Rajiv Gaur | 15196 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 04 Jan 99 to 07 Jan 01 | Wing Commander Sambasivan Srinivasan | 15677 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 08 Jan 01 to 30 Mar 03 | Wing Commander Kothandaram Krishna Reddy | 16623 F(P) | CO | Guwahati |  |
| 31 Mar 03 to 01 Sep 04 | Wing Commander Srinivasa Rao Atmakuri | 17158 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 27 Sep 04 to 27 Aug 06 | Wing Commander Ganesh Chandra Mishra | 18288 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 28 Aug 06 to 07 Jun 09 | Wing Commander Sheikh Mohammad Wahid | 19887 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 08 Jun 09 to 12 Jun 11 | Wing Commander Raiiv Batra | 20772 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 31 May 12 to 16 Jun 14 | Group Captain Mahesh Kumar Yadav | 21533 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
| 16 Jun 14 to 30 Aug 17 | Group Captain Anil Kumar Yadav | 22936 F(P) | CO | Guwahati | |
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