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 South Western Air Command Date Raised : 1980-07-23 Location : Jodhpur Originally established as No 1 Operational Group at Jodhpur on 21 Sep 1972, it was subsequently rechristened as the South Western Air Command on 23 Jul 1980. The operational area, carved out of the Western Air Command, included most of Rajasthan and the entire Gujarat. In a major expansion in the mid eighties, the Unitss located at Pune and Mumbai were transferred from Central Air Command. Goa area of Southern Air Command was also added to the jurisdiction of this Command. Thus, the entire south western area of the country came under the air defence umbrella of SWAC. Keeping in view the increasing operational importance of the command, it was decided by Air HQ to move the Command Headquarters from Jodhpur to Gandhinagar. The new HQ was inaugurated on 1 May 1998 . Read Detailed History
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Unit previously existed as 1 Op Group (Jodhpur)
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 23 Jul 80 to 30 Jun 83 | Air Marshal Jagdish Raj Bhasin | 3591 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 01 Jul 83 to 31 Oct 84 | Air Marshal Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole | 3652 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 01 Nov 84 to 06 Jan 86 | Air Marshal Subramaniam Raghavendran | 3840 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 08 Jan 86 to 28 Feb 87 | Air Marshal Prem Pal Singh | 3871 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 01 Mar 87 to 28 Jul 88 | Air Marshal Surendra Kumar Mehra | 4197 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 01 Aug 88 to 31 Mar 92 | Air Marshal Partha Kumar Dey | 4404 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 01 Apr 92 to 30 Sep 93 | Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal | 4972 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 06 Oct 93 to 03 Jun 94 | Air Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen | 5370 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 06 Jun 94 to 31 Jan 96 | Air Marshal Kodendera Cariappa Cariappa | 5376 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 01 Feb 96 to 30 Nov 97 | Air Marshal Sharadkumar Ramakrishna Deshpande | 5694 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Jodhpur |  |
| 01 Dec 97 to 31 Oct 99 | Air Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy | 6338 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Johdpur/ Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Nov 99 to 31 Jul 01 | Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Bhatia | 6497 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Aug 01 to 31 Jan 03 | Air Marshal Michael McMahon | 7399 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Feb 03 to 14 Nov 03 | Air Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi | 8130 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 17 Nov 03 to 30 Jun 04 | Air Marshal Adi Rustomji Ghandhi | 7722 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 12 Jul 04 to 28 Feb 06 | Air Marshal Satish Kumar Jain | 9716 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Mar 06 to 30 Apr 07 | Air Marshal Pramod Kumar Mehra | 11581 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 May 07 to 30 Sep 09 | Air Marshal Kanwar Dalinderjit Singh | 12403 GD(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Oct 09 to 31 Dec 10 | Air Marshal Paramjit Singh Bhangu | 12932 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Jan 11 to 28 Feb 13 | Air Marshal Anjan Kumar Gogoi | 13382 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Mar 13 to 31 Oct 14 | Air Marshal Daljit Singh | 14553 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Nov 14 to 31 May 15 | Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa | 15405 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Jun 15 to 30 Sep 18 | Air Marshal Ravinder Kumar Dhir | 15678 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Oct 18 to 30 Sep 19 | Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora | 16557 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Oct 19 to 30 Apr 21 | Air Marshal Surendra Kumar Ghotia | 16575 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 Apr 21 to 30 Sep 21 | Air Marshal Sandeep Singh | 17312 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 04 Oct 21 to 30 Apr 23 | Air Marshal Vikram Singh | 17699 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
| 01 May 23 to | Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari | 18270 F(P) | AOC-in-C | Gandhinagar |  |
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