PSO: Administration, Air HQ Date Raised : 1940-07-21 In 1940, a new role of Senior officer in charge Administration was created at Air Headquarters. All administrative functions such as Personnel, Equipment, organisation, engineering were under this officer. Soon therrafter the tole was redisgnated as AOA (Air Officer in charge Administration). This system continued till 31 Jan 1949. Around this time, the directorates of equipment and technical were transferred out and the role wss briefly redesignated as Air Officer In Charge Personnel and Org between 1949 and 1958. In 1958, it reverted to its old designation of AOA. In 1980 the Directorates relating to Personnel were transferred to a newly created post (AOP) and AOA was left with the charge of works, Org, Accounts, medical, JAG amongst others. This continues to date.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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21 Jul 40 to 31 Dec 41 | Group Captain A P Ledger | RAF | SOA | Delhi | |
10 Nov 41 to 31 Mar 42 | Wing Commander K A Meek | RAF | SOA | Delhi | |
02 Apr 42 to 15 Sep 43 | Air Vice Marshal Alfred Conrad Collier | RAF | AOA | Delhi | |
16 Sep 43 to 15 Nov 43 | Air Vice Marshal Robert Victor Goddard | RAF | AOA | Delhi | |
16 Nov 43 to 17 Jul 45 | Air Commodore H J G E Proud | RAF | AOA | Delhi | |
18 Jul 45 to 22 Oct 45 | Air Commodore Cyril Douglas Adams | RAF | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Apr 46 to | Air Vice Marshal Robert Linton Ragg | RAF | AOA | Delhi | |
29 Nov 46 to 14 Aug 47 | Air Vice Marshal Allan Lancelot Addison Perry-Keene | RAF | AOA | Delhi | |
15 Aug 47 to 27 Sep 48 | Air Commodore Aspy Merwan Engineer | 1554 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
15 Nov 48 to 31 Jan 49 | Air Commodore Diwan Atma Ram Nanda | 1562 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Feb 49 to 11 Dec 52 | Air Commodore Diwan Atma Ram Nanda | 1562 GD(P) | AOC (P&O) | Delhi | |
12 Dec 52 to 08 Dec 55 | Air Commodore Arjan Singh | 1577 GD(P) | AOC (P&O) | Delhi | |
09 Dec 55 to 11 May 58 | Air Commodore Ravinder Hari Darshan Singh | 1558 GD(P) | AOC (P&O) | Delhi | |
28 May 58 to 06 Dec 59 | Air Commodore Erlic Wilmot Pinto | 1593 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
23 Jan 60 to 09 May 61 | Air Commodore Hirendra Nath Chatterjee | 1620 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
10 May 61 to 31 Dec 62 | Air Vice Marshal Arjan Singh | 1577 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Jan 63 to 10 Nov 66 | Air Vice Marshal Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi | 1592 GD(O) | AOA | Delhi | |
11 Nov 66 to 08 Aug 69 | Air Vice Marshal Yeshwant Vinayak Malse | 1616 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
30 Aug 69 to 31 Dec 71 | Air Vice Marshal Teja Singh Virk | 1621 GD(O) | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Jan 72 to 01 Jan 74 | Air Marshal Teja Singh Virk | 1621 GD(O) | AOA | Delhi | |
02 Jan 74 to 26 Jun 74 | Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif | 1804 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Jul 74 to 21 Jan 77 | Air Marshal Gian Dev Sharma | 1742 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Feb 77 to 10 Feb 79 | Air Marshal George Kanishtkumar John | 2132 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Mar 79 to 22 Feb 81 | Air Marshal Saroj Jena | 3157 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
23 Feb 81 to 19 Oct 81 | Air Marshal Erasseri Pathayapurayil Radhakrishnan Nair | 3837 GD(N) | AOA | Delhi | |
10 Feb 82 to 28 Feb 83 | Air Marshal Kapil Dev Chadha | 3845 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Mar 83 to 31 Aug 85 | Air Marshal Shri Krishna Chandra Gupta | 3568 A&SD | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Sep 85 to 31 Dec 85 | Air Marshal Madan Lal Sethi | 4009 GD(N) | AOA | Delhi | |
10 Feb 86 to 27 Jul 86 | Air Marshal Jagdish Kumar Seth | 4403 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
29 Jul 86 to 27 Jan 88 | Air Marshal Krishnaswamy Subramanian | 4213 GD(N) | AOA | Delhi | |
28 Jan 88 to 31 Jan 91 | Air Marshal Parduman Kumar Jain | 4366 A&SD | AOA | Delhi | |
11 Apr 91 to 23 Dec 91 | Air Marshal Naresh Kumar | 5057 GD(P) | AOA | Delhi | |
13 Jul 92 to 31 Oct 95 | Air Marshal Mohinder Kumar Anand | 5498 A&SD | AOA | Delhi | |
03 Nov 95 to 30 Jun 01 | Air Marshal Dinesh Chandra Dhyani | 6590 A&SD | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Jul 01 to 31 Dec 03 | Air Marshal Ramesh Chandra Mahadik | 8570 A&SD | AOA | Delhi | |
22 Mar 04 to 31 Jul 06 | Air Marshal Harendrajit Singh Garkal | 11780 A&SD | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Aug 06 to 30 Nov 12 | Air Marshal Jyoti Narayan Burma | 13219 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Dec 12 to 31 Jan 13 | Air Marshal Naresh Verma | 13235 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Feb 13 to 30 Apr 15 | Air Marshal Herikudru Babu Rajaram | 14939 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 May 15 to 31 Jul 16 | Air Marshal Bipin Bihari Prasad Sinha | 15748 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Aug 16 to 31 Jul 17 | Air Marshal Mahesh Kumar Malik | 15743 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Aug 17 to 31 Oct 18 | Air Marshal Hemant Narayan Bhagwat | 16423 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Nov 18 to 31 Dec 19 | Air Marshal Pradeep Padmakar Bapat | 17227 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Jan 20 to 31 Jan 21 | Air Marshal Mothlamnet Sabari Gireen Menon | 17035 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Feb 21 to 31 Jan 22 | Air Marshal Vijay Pal Singh Rana | 17736 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Feb 22 to 31 May 23 | Air Marshal Krishnaswamy Anantharaman | 17882 ADM | AOA | Delhi | |
01 Jun 23 to | Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar Anand | 18892 ADM | AOA | Delhi |