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7 Wing Date Raised : 1954-08-01 Location : Ambala Camp Umbala was formed in 1919 and had the No. 99 RAF Sqn placed there. over the next two decades or so, various RAF squadrons were placed off and on at the base including No. 114 RAF Sqn, 28 Sqn and 60 Sqn. Between 1920 and 1922, RAF HQ was also at Ambala, after which it moved to Simla/ Delhi. On 1st Apr 1938, the Station HQ at Ambala was formed and it was formally renamed RAF Station, Ambala on 15 Feb 1941. During the most of 1940s Ambala operated as a training base for IAF/ RIAF with the SFTS and Technical Training Center there. At independence, the station was called Air Force Flying School (India) and was training pilots. On transfer of training to other bases, Ambala was made an operational base of the IAF on 2 Sep 1951 and renamed 307 Wing. On 31 july 1954, this was renamed to 7 Wing.
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Unit previously existed as 307 Wing
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Aug 54 to 07 Dec 56 | Group Captain Birendra Kumar Sen Gupta | 1590 GD(O) | CO | Ambala |  |
| 10 Dec 56 to 30 Jun 60 | Group Captain Syed Abbas Hussain | 1706 GD(P) | CO | Ambala |  |
| 01 Jul 60 to 21 Jul 62 | Group Captain Anant Vemanrao Samsi | 1865 GD(P) | CO | Ambala |  |
| 25 Jul 62 to 07 Jan 65 | Group Captain Charandas Gurudas Devashar | 1867 GD(P) | CO | Ambala |  |
| 08 Jan 65 to 04 Jan 67 | Group Captain David Eugene Bouche | 2774 GD(P) | CO | Ambala |  |
| 05 Jan 67 to 31 Mar 68 | Group Captain Maheshwar Das Khanna | 2776 GD(P) | CO | Ambala |  |
| 01 Apr 68 to 14 Jan 69 | Air Commodore Maheshwar Das Khanna | 2776 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala | |
| 15 Jan 69 to 14 Aug 70 | Air Commodore George Kanishtkumar John | 2132 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 15 Aug 70 to 01 Aug 71 | Air Commodore Madhav Bhawrao Naik | 1874 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 02 Aug 71 to 09 Jan 74 | Air Commodore Walter Vernon Alexander Lloyd | 2623 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 10 Jan 74 to 10 Feb 76 | Air Commodore Dilbagh Singh | 2998 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 11 Feb 76 to 21 Dec 77 | Air Commodore Subramaniam Raghavendran | 3840 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 22 Dec 77 to 01 Apr 79 | Air Commodore Robert Arnold Weir | 3881 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 02 Apr 79 to 17 Sep 82 | Air Commodore Mohinder Singh Bawa | 4494 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 18 Nov 82 to 02 Jan 85 | Air Commodore Brijesh Dhar Jayal | 4972 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 03 Jan 85 to 05 Jan 87 | Air Commodore Palamadai Muthuswamy Ramachandran | 4973 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 08 Jan 87 to 01 Jan 89 | Air Commodore Dinanath Ramchander Nadkarni | 5587 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 02 Jan 89 to 08 Mar 91 | Air Commodore Viney Kapila | 5596 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 11 Mar 91 to 16 Dec 92 | Air Commodore Jogendra Singh Sisodia | 7696 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 17 Dec 92 to 27 Feb 95 | Air Commodore Anil Kumar Trikha | 8436 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 14 Mar 95 to 28 May 96 | Air Commodore Michael McMahon | 7399 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 24 Jun 96 to 04 Jan 98 | Air Commodore Avdesh Kumar Singh | 11005 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 05 Jan 98 to 31 Aug 00 | Air Commodore Karan Singh Chhina | 12389 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 01 Sep 00 to 20 Oct 02 | Air Commodore Venkataraman Ramamurthy Iyer | 12939 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 21 Oct 02 to 30 Sep 03 | Air Commodore Satish Kumar Sofat | 12207 GD(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 01 Oct 03 to 01 Sep 05 | Air Commodore Lalit Kumar Malhotra | 13373 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 02 Sep 05 to 24 Jun 07 | Air Commodore Hitesh Hari Bhai Patel | 14271 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 25 Jun 07 to 31 Mar 09 | Air Commodore Rahul Dhar | 14561 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 01 Apr 09 to 29 Nov 10 | Air Commodore Anil Khosla | 15871 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 30 Nov 10 to 13 Jun 12 | Air Commodore Prashant Nagaraja Kaushik | 16783 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 14 Jun 12 to 20 Aug 14 | Air Commodore Dilip Kumar Patnaik | 17464 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 21 Aug 14 to 01 Jan 17 | Air Commodore Tejinder Singh | 18806 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 02 Jan 17 to 01 Jan 19 | Air Commodore Lalit Kumar Chawla | 19871 F(P) | AOC | Ambala |  |
| 02 Jan 19 to | Air Commodore Deepak Sudhir Joshi | 20756 F(P) | AOC | Ambala | |
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