1 Base Repair Depot Date Raised : 1948-08-09 Location : Kanpur On 15 August 1947, the historic day of India’s Independence, Wing Commander Ranjan Dutta DFC took over the command of Air Force Station, Kanpur from the Royal Air Force. Simultaneously, on this very day, No. 1 Aircraft Repair Depot for servicing and No. 10 Aircraft Storage Units for storage activities were formed at Chakeri, Kanpur. Group Captain DAR Nanda became the first Commanding Officer of both these Unitss. On 09 August 1948, the two Unitss were merged to form No. 1 Base Repair Depot and Group Captain Harjinder Singh MBE PVSM became the first Commanding Officer of this new Units. Nostalgic moments included induction of India’s first jet aircraft, the Vampire in 1954 and the Depot effecting its first major servicing in that very year. Flying Officer Gian Singh still remains a much-remembered name who used to regularly ferry in the Vampire aircraft for servicing at Hanger No.6 of the Depot. 1 BRD has a professionally rich heritage of servicing both fighter and transport aircraft of IAF like Spitfire, Prentice, Austar, Harvard, Otter, Bell Helicopter, Vampire, Toofani, Mystere, Hunter, Avro and presently An-32 aircraft.
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09 Aug 48 - 26 Jan 55Group CaptainHarjinder Singh1963 ENGCOKanpur | 26 Jan 55 - 01 May 55Wing CommanderNarinjan Parsad Nair2280 ENGCOKanpur | 02 May 55 - 19 Aug 56Group CaptainNarinjan Parsad Nair2280 ENGCOKanpur | 20 Aug 56 - 19 Apr 59Group CaptainDadi Ardeshir Mehta1625 GD(N)COKanpur | 20 Apr 59 - 20 Apr 60Group CaptainTeja Singh Virk1621 GD(O)COKanpur | |
21 Apr 60 - 09 Oct 60Wing CommanderArdeshir Pestonji Kapadia2150 A&SDCOKanpur | 10 Oct 60 - 01 May 63Group CaptainArdeshir Pestonji Kapadia2150 A&SDCOKanpur | | 15 Jan 65 - 31 Mar 68Group CaptainRaj Kumar Singh Marya2916 ENGCOKanpur | | |
01 Nov 69 - 20 Nov 70Group CaptainChandrakant Shridhar Naik3499 ENGCOKanpur | 21 Nov 70 - 06 Jan 74Group CaptainAmrit Dev Datt3789 ENGCOKanpur | | 15 Jul 74 - 17 Nov 78Group CaptainMahendra Singh Rao3902 ENGCOKanpur | 18 Nov 78 - 10 Mar 81Group CaptainLakkamsetti Ramakrishna4266 ENGCOKanpur | |
| | 02 Sep 85 - 31 Aug 87Group CaptainArun Kumar Saraswat6563 ENGCOKanpur | 01 Sep 87 - 28 Aug 88Group CaptainKanthappa Sivalingam7070 ENGCOKanpur | 29 Aug 88 - 19 Nov 91Group CaptainRampati Kondaiah6813 ENGCOKanpur | |
20 Nov 91 - 05 Jan 92Wing CommanderAmya Kumar Chakraborty11501 AE(M)COKanpur | 06 Jan 92 - 01 Aug 93Group CaptainAmya Kumar Chakraborty11501 AE(M)COKanpur | 02 Aug 93 - 01 Jan 95Group CaptainAnand Mohan Khanna8845 SIGSCOKanpur | 02 Jan 95 - 09 Mar 97Group CaptainKirti Shekhar Chaturvedi12100 AE(L)COKanpur | 10 Mar 97 - 01 Jan 99Group CaptainRishi Pal Singh12639 AE(M)COKanpur | |
02 Jan 99 - 15 Dec 00Group CaptainSwaminathan Gopalakrishnan12437 AE(M)COKanpur | 16 Dec 00 - 30 Oct 01Group CaptainJogesh Chander Bhasin13073 AE(M)COKanpur | 31 Oct 01 - 17 Sep 02Group CaptainRam Rattan Bhardwaj13337 AE(M)COKanpur | 28 Oct 02 - 13 Jun 04Group CaptainBhajan Lal Thakral14195 AE(M)COKanpur | 14 Jun 04 - 17 Sep 06Group CaptainDevinder Singh Khajuria15073 AE(M)COKanpur | |
18 Sep 06 - 29 Sep 08Group CaptainSurya Narayana Murti15945 AE(L)COKanpur | 01 Dec 08 - 30 Nov 10Group CaptainRajendra Kumar Yadav17816 AE(L)COKanpur | 16 May 12 - 09 Jun 14Group CaptainAnjani Gopal Bandyopadhyay18501 AE(M)COKanpur |