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12 Wing


Date Raised : 1961-02-01 Location : Chandigarh
12 Wing was established at Chandigarh on 1 Mar 1961, playing home to the newly raised Nos 42 and 44 Squadrons. Since then it is one of the premier transport bases in the IAF. Over the years, the pride of the IAF's heavy-lift fleet - An 12s, Il-76s, Mi-26s were stationed at 12 Wing.

Commanding Officers


01 Mar 61 - 17 Dec 62
Group Captain
Murat Singh Aulakh
1660 GD(O)
Stn Cdr
Chandigarh

18 Dec 62 - 11 Jan 66
Group Captain
Trilok Nath Ghadiok
2354 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Chandigarh

12 Jan 66 - 01 Jan 69
Air Commodore
Jaspal Singh
2451 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

02 Jan 69 - 14 Jun 72
Air Commodore
Edul Jahangir Dhatigara
1899 GD(O)
AOC
Chandigarh

08 Sep 72 - 01 Jan 73
Air Commodore
Lal Singh Grewal
2337 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

30 Jan 73 - 05 Jan 75
Air Commodore
Kenneth Hubert Larkins
3511 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

14 Jan 75 - 13 Jan 76
Air Commodore
Jagdish Raj Bhasin
3591 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

14 Feb 76 - 11 Apr 79
Air Commodore
Madan Mohan Arora
3864 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

12 Apr 79 - 11 Apr 81
Air Commodore
Rajagopal Sriramulu Naidu
4090 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

12 Apr 81 - 03 Jan 83
Air Commodore
Purushottam Laxmikant Purohit
4581 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

04 Jan 83 - 13 Jan 85
Air Commodore
Suresh Chand
4585 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

14 Jan 85 - 30 Nov 87
Air Commodore
Dalip Singh Sabherwal
4756 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

01 Dec 87 - 14 Jun 89
Air Commodore
Chitta Ranjan Ghosh
6141 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

15 Jun 89 - 30 Jun 91
Air Commodore
Gurdarshan Singh Brar
6146 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

19 Aug 91 - 21 Jun 92
Air Commodore
Shailendra Singh Kaushik
6766 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

22 Jun 92 - 02 Jan 94
Air Commodore
Ashok Kumar Goel
8151 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

03 Jan 94 - 15 Sep 96
Air Commodore
Ivor Percival Alexander
8430 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

16 Sep 96 - 10 Jan 99
Air Commodore
Ramamoorthy Vijay Kumar
10918 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

11 Jan 99 - 02 Jan 01
Air Commodore
Shyamal Kumar Banerjee
10941 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

04 Jan 01 - 14 Jul 02
Air Commodore
Vrittamani Srinivasaiyangar Govindarajan
12232 GD(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

15 Jul 02 - 19 Oct 03
Air Commodore
Arun Gopinath
13397 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

20 Oct 03 - 02 Jan 05
Air Commodore
Sanjay Sharad Kumar Tilloo
13919 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

03 Jan 05 - 04 Jan 07
Air Commodore
Trikandiyur Kollath Venugopal
13598 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

05 Jan 07 - 14 Oct 07
Air Commodore
Manmohan Sud
13945 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

15 Oct 07 - 22 Dec 09
Air Commodore
Sridharan Panicker Radha Krishnan Nair
16040 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

23 Dec 09 - 01 May 11
Air Commodore
Rajeev Sachdeva
16582 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

02 May 11 - 01 May 13
Air Commodore
Suryakant Chintaman Chafekar
17013 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

02 May 13 - 23 Dec 15
Air Commodore
Surendra Kumar Indoria
18296 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

26 Dec 17 - 04 Aug 19
Air Commodore
Shivkumar Srinivasan
19520 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh

05 Aug 19 -
Air Commodore
Tejbir Singh
19958 F(P)
AOC
Chandigarh
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