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Institution of Aviation Medicine


Date Raised : 1957-05-29 Location : AirHQ
IAM was formed as "School of Aviation Medicine"(SAM) at Bangalore by merging No. 1 Aeromedical Unit (AMU) from Palam and the Aeromedical Research Centre (ARC) established at the premises of HAL.

Commanding Officers


29 May 57 - 28 Sep 59
Wing Commander
Ramamurti Arunachalam
3433 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

29 Sep 59 - 19 Jun 60
Squadron Leader
Jemi Harmusji Framji Manekshaw
2690 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

20 Jun 60 - 05 Sep 60
Wing Commander
Jemi Harmusji Framji Manekshaw
2690 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

06 Sep 60 - 11 Jan 63
Group Captain
Ajit Nath
1666 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

15 Jan 63 - 24 Mar 64
Group Captain
Madhukar Mallanah Shrinagesh
1665 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

11 Dec 64 - 14 Apr 67
Group Captain
Hirendra Nath Dutta
2103 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

14 Apr 67 - 06 Sep 71
Group Captain
Jemi Harmusji Framji Manekshaw
2690 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

07 Sep 71 - 28 Feb 73
Air Commodore
Jemi Harmusji Framji Manekshaw
2690 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

01 Mar 73 - 01 Feb 76
Group Captain
Kanumilli Suryanarayana Rao
3371 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

02 Feb 76 - 27 Mar 76
Air Commodore
Kanumilli Suryanarayana Rao
3371 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

15 Apr 76 - 30 Jun 78
Air Commodore
Satya Pal Verma
3722 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

06 Jul 78 - 05 Mar 82
Air Commodore
Jagjit Singh Sant
3525 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

06 Mar 82 - 31 May 84
Air Vice Marshal
Jagjit Singh Sant
3525 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

01 Sep 84 - 10 Mar 85
Group Captain
Pinnapakkam Masilamani Sundaram
4857 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

11 Mar 85 - 23 Feb 86
Air Commodore
Pinnapakkam Masilamani Sundaram
4857 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

24 Feb 86 - 13 Mar 89
Air Commodore
Prabati Charan Chatterjee
4927 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

14 Mar 89 - 30 Sep 91
Air Commodore
Surjlt Singh
5554 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

24 Feb 92 - 31 Aug 93
Air Commodore
Kuldip Rai
6051 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

27 Sep 93 - 18 May 97
Air Commodore
Subhash Chandra Luthra
12899 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

26 Aug 97 - 03 Sep 99
Air Commodore
Ashoke Kumar Sengupta
9938 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

13 Sep 99 - 31 May 00
Air Commodore
Sarashchandra Padmakarrao Deshmukh
9303 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

26 Jun 00 - 15 Oct 02
Air Commodore
Kuldip Singh Soodan
11734 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

02 Dec 02 - 16 Aug 04
Air Commodore
Jayant Sitaram Kulkarni
12310 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

11 Oct 04 - 21 Apr 06
Air Commodore
Hanumiah Subramanya
12910 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Pankaj Tyagi
13901 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Giles Gomez
16527 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Satish Chowdhary
16199 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

31 Mar 14 - 31 Mar 16
Air Commodore
Deepak Gaur
17404 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Narinder Taneja
18187 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore

19 Jul 18 - 25 May 20
Air Commodore
Anupam Agarwal
18700 MED
Cmdt
Bangalore
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