Maritime Air Operations Date Raised : 1971-07-15 Location : Bombay HQ MAO was formed as Air Force Element in Mumbai in 1957 for joint operations with Army. In 1967 it was moved to Pune and renamed as HQ Western India and further renamed to Maritime Air Operations (MAO) in July 1971 and moved to Mumbai.
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15 Jul 71 - 03 Mar 72Air Vice MarshalAnand Ramdas Pandit1707 GD(P)AOCBombay | 06 Mar 72 - 03 Apr 73Air Vice MarshalGian Dev Sharma1742 GD(P)AOCBombay | 16 Apr 73 - 31 Oct 76Air Vice MarshalWaman Raghunath Dani1807 GD(P)AOCBombay | 01 Nov 76 - 24 Aug 78Air Vice MarshalDouglas George King-Lee3040 GD(P)AOCBombay | 25 Aug 78 - 13 Jan 81Air Vice MarshalKanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra3831 GD(N)AOCBombay | |
| | 01 Jan 85 - 30 Apr 87Air Vice MarshalManohar Madhav Takle4116 GD(N)AOCBombay | 15 Feb 88 - 31 Jan 89Air Vice MarshalPurushottam Laxmikant Purohit4581 GD(P)AOCBombay | 01 Feb 89 - 31 Oct 91Air Vice MarshalThupakulu Narasimhulu Bhavani Shankar5060 GD(P)AOCBombay | |
01 Nov 91 - 18 Jun 93Air Vice MarshalBharat Kumar5787 GD(P)AOCBombay | 21 Jun 93 - 30 Jun 95Air Vice MarshalAjai Kumar Brahmawar5858 GD(P)AOCBombay | 25 Sep 95 - 30 Jun 96Air Vice MarshalSuresh Kumar Sonpar6126 GD(P)AOCBombay | 30 Jul 96 - 10 Feb 99Air Vice MarshalKurumthodathil Cherian Phillipose7702 GD(P)AOCBombay | 11 Feb 99 - 31 Aug 00Air Vice MarshalChandra Kant Krishnatri7697 GD(P)AOCBombay | |
01 Sep 00 - 09 Jun 02Air Vice MarshalHarpal Singh Ahluwalia9821 GD(P)AOCBombay | 10 Jun 02 - 13 Feb 04Air Vice MarshalPadamjit Singh Ahluwalia11631 GD(P)AOCBombay | 01 Apr 04 - 17 Dec 06Air Vice MarshalSaravjit Singh Hothi12215 GD(P)AOCBombay | 18 Dec 06 - 30 Apr 08Air Vice MarshalAjay Shrivniwas Karnik13140 F(P)AOCBombay | 05 May 08 - 24 May 09Air Vice MarshalMuthumanikam Matheswaran14104 F(P)AOCBombay | |
25 May 09 - 01 Nov 10Air Vice MarshalRavinath Gururaj Burli14667 F(P)AOCBombay | 01 Dec 10 - 30 Sep 13Air Vice MarshalAnil Khosla15871 F(P)AOCBombay | 01 Oct 13 - 30 Jun 16Air Vice MarshalAnil Golani16986 F(P)AOCBombay | 01 Jul 16 - 31 Jul 18Air Vice MarshalMichael Fernandez16967 F(P)AOCBombay | 10 Aug 18 - Air Vice MarshalRajeev Hora17141 F(P)AOCBombay | |
Unknown - Air Vice MarshalShiv Ratan Singh18083 F(P)AOCBombay | Unknown - Air Vice MarshalRajat Mohan20476 F(P)AOCBombay |