Eastern Air Command

Date Raised : 1959-12-07 Location : Shillong

No 1 Operational Group was upgraded to Eastern Air Command on 1 Dec 1959 at Calcutta. During the Indo-China Ccnflict of 1962, practical experience highlighted the difficulty of Kolkata being the location of Eastern Air Command. In order to have more effective operational control over the region of the north-east, the Command Headquarters was shifted to Shillong on 1 Jun 63.

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Unit previously existed as 1 Op Group (Calcutta)

Commanding Officers
07 Dec 59 - 28 Dec 61 Air Vice Marshal Kundan Lal Sondhi 1566 GD(P) AOC-in-C Calcutta	03 Mar 62 - 01 Jan 63 Air Vice Marshal Kanwar Jaswant Singh 1587 GD(P) AOC-in-C Calcutta	14 Jan 63 - 09 Jun 63 Air Vice Marshal Shivdev Singh 1595 GD(P) AOC-in-C Calcutta	10 Jun 63 - 04 Aug 63 Air Vice Marshal Ramaswami Rajaram 1573 GD(O) AOC-in-C Shillong	05 Aug 63 - 30 Sep 64 Air Vice Marshal Minoo Merwan Engineer 1614 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
01 Oct 64 - 30 Sep 66 Air Vice Marshal Yeshwant Vinayak Malse 1616 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	28 Oct 66 - 31 Mar 68 Air Vice Marshal Ranjan Dutt 1594 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Apr 68 - 23 Mar 71 Air Marshal Hirendra Nath Chatterjee 1620 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	24 Mar 71 - 31 Mar 73 Air Marshal Hari Chand Dewan 1598 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Apr 73 - 21 Apr 76 Air Marshal Maurice Barker 1691 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
24 Apr 76 - 12 Aug 78 Air Marshal Lal Singh Grewal 2337 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	04 Sep 78 - 02 Jan 81 Air Marshal Lakshman Madhav Katre 3117 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	03 Jan 81 - 26 Feb 83 Air Marshal Malcolm Shirley Dundas Wollen 3641 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Mar 83 - 30 Nov 83 Air Marshal Douglas George King-Lee 3040 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Dec 83 - 31 Oct 84 Air Marshal Minoo Jehangir Dotiwalla 3839 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
05 Nov 84 - 31 Dec 87 Air Marshal Kapil Dev Chadha 3845 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	08 Feb 88 - 31 Jan 91 Air Marshal Man Mohan Sinha 4408 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	11 Feb 91 - 05 Oct 91 Air Marshal Rajendra Kumar Dhawan 4736 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	07 Oct 91 - 30 Mar 92 Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal 4972 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 May 92 - 31 Jan 95 Air Marshal Dushyant Singh 5048 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
01 Feb 95 - 31 Mar 96 Air Marshal Janak Kapur 5585 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Apr 96 - 03 Jan 99 Air Marshal Prithvi Singh Brar 6007 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	04 Jan 99 - 30 Nov 00 Air Marshal Krishnan Narayan Nair 6346 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Dec 00 - 20 Jan 02 Air Marshal Satish Govind Inamdar 7189 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	21 Jan 02 - 31 Oct 04 Air Marshal Manek Bomanshaw Madon 7681 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
01 Nov 04 - 21 Aug 05 Air Marshal Avinash Deodata Joshi 10886 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	05 Sep 05 - 30 Mar 07 Air Marshal Fali Homi Major 11442 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Apr 07 - 31 Dec 07 Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora 12375 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Jan 08 - 31 Dec 09 Air Marshal Shiv Kumar Bhan 12510 GD(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Jan 10 - 31 Jul 11 Air Marshal Krishan Kumar Nohwar 13132 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
01 Aug 11 - 30 Nov 12 Air Marshal Simhakutty Varthaman 13606 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Dec 12 - 31 Dec 13 Air Marshal Ravi Kant Sharma 14088 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Jan 14 - 31 Dec 14 Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Jolly 14083 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Jan 15 - 31 Aug 15 Air Marshal Shirish Baban Deo 15681 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Sep 15 - 31 Dec 16 Air Marshal Chandrashekharan Hari Kumar 15881 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
01 Jan 17 - 30 Sep 18 Air Marshal Anil Khosla 15871 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Oct 18 - 28 Feb 19 Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar 16378 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Mar 19 - 30 Sep 20 Air Marshal Rajiv Dayal Mathur 16772 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	01 Oct 20 - 30 Sep 21 Air Marshal Amit Dev 16972 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong	03 Oct 21 - 30 Sep 22 Air Marshal Dilip Kumar Patnaik 17464 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong
01 Oct 22 - Air Marshal Sujeet Pushpakar Dharkar 17841 F(P) AOC-in-C Shillong

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