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1 Tactical Air Center Date Raised : 1957-04-01 Location : Jalandhar 1 Air Task Force was established in Aug 51 to operate in conjunction with XI Corps, the first Corps in the Indian Army. It came about as a result of the deficiencies experienced in coordinating air operations with land operations during J & K Ops in 1947-48. The name was subsequently changed to No. 1 Tactical (Air Support) Group in Jan 55 and finally, to No. 1 Tactical Air Centre on 01 Mar 57. It was the first of the Unitss set up for Joint Air/Land Warfare and thus, marked the beginning of Air/Land Warfare organization in India. In fact, a detachment of the Units set up Adv HQ, WAC with Western Command and manned it till it was established in 1959.
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Unit previously existed as 1 TASG
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| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Mar 57 to 05 Sep 57 | Group Captain Homi Shapurji Ratnagar | 1588 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 15 Oct 57 to 09 Jun 59 | Group Captain Murat Singh Aulakh | 1660 GD(O) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 10 Jun 59 to 01 Feb 60 | Group Captain Ramachandra Balaji Godkhindi | 1760 GD(O) | CO | Jallandhar | |
| 02 Feb 60 to 29 Jun 60 | Group Captain Zafar Ahmed Shah | 1805 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 14 Jul 60 to 13 Aug 62 | Group Captain Tekchand Gopaldas Kelly | 1753 GD(O) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 14 Aug 62 to 14 Jan 64 | Group Captain Solomon Purushottam | 1928 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 15 Jan 64 to 14 Feb 67 | Group Captain Gurbachan Singh Bhullar | 1870 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 17 Apr 67 to 28 Jun 67 | Group Captain Soli Cursetji Kaikobad | 2119 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 15 Jul 67 to 16 Aug 69 | Group Captain John Frederick Shukla | 2458 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar | |
| 17 Aug 69 to 14 Jul 70 | Group Captain Randhir Singh | 2135 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 15 Jul 70 to 04 Sep 72 | Group Captain Jagdish Chandra Sengupta | 3657 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 08 Sep 72 to 23 Sep 73 | Group Captain Prakashnarain Jainarain Mehra | 4037 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 11 Mar 74 to 05 Jan 76 | Group Captain Robert Arnold Weir | 3881 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 06 Jan 76 to 23 Apr 78 | Group Captain Subhash Chander Virmani | 4097 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 24 Apr 78 to 03 May 79 | Group Captain Ranjit Singh Bedi | 5120 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 04 May 79 to 04 Oct 81 | Group Captain Bhagat Singh Bakhshi | 4597 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 05 Oct 81 to 31 Jul 85 | Group Captain Krishna Chandra Misra | 4255 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar | |
| 14 Oct 85 to 30 Nov 88 | Group Captain Dinkar Shantaram Jatar | 6521 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 01 Dec 88 to 09 Feb 92 | Group Captain Surjit Singh | 8148 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 27 Apr 92 to 31 May 93 | Group Captain Jagjit Singh Ghuman | 10123 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 23 Aug 93 to 31 Mar 95 | Group Captain Gurdeep Singh | 8695 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 23 Aug 95 to 31 Oct 96 | Group Captain Rajinder Pal Singh | 10601 GD(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 07 Jan 97 to 10 Jul 98 | Group Captain P Singh | CO | Jallandhar | ||
| 30 Sep 98 to 31 Aug 00 | Group Captain Digvijay Singh | 13784 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar | |
| 09 Apr 01 to 27 Apr 04 | Group Captain Vinod Kumar Chopra | 14563 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 28 Apr 04 to 13 Jun 06 | Group Captain Pradeep Kumar Sharan | 15210 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar | |
| 14 Jun 06 to 02 Dec 07 | Group Captain Manas Chatterjee | 17356 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 03 Dec 07 to 31 Jul 08 | Group Captain Rakesh Anand | 15873 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 18 Aug 08 to 28 Feb 10 | Group Captain Pragat Singh Gill | 15055 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar | |
| 15 Mar 10 to 25 Jun 11 | Group Captain Surender Dhankhar | 18295 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar |  |
| 18 Jul 11 to 01 Sep 13 | Group Captain Sharad Subhash Sharma | 19866 F(P) | CO | Jallandhar | |
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