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No.121 Helicopter Flight Sea Eagles

Motto : Apatsu Mitram (A friend in time of need)
Date Raised : 1973-01-07 Location : Mumbai
121 HF was located at the Air India complex at Kalina and their helicopters were located at Juhu. Sometimes in 1999 when a hanger utilised by AEU( Aircraft Errection Unit) where the Mi 8 and Mi 17 were assembled when they moved to India in crates. Initially they used the crates for making various bays. Later in 2002 the office acommodation came up adjoining the hanger.
Aircraft Types operated over the years:

Commanding Officers


07 Jan 73 - 30 Sep 74
Squadron Leader
Harihara Rajagopal
5277 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

11 Oct 74 - 24 Nov 75
Squadron Leader
Ranbir Singh Chauhan
8136 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

05 Dec 75 - 06 Jun 79
Squadron Leader
Rajinder Pal Singh Dhillon
7741 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

18 Aug 79 - 05 Jul 81
Wing Commander
Subhash Madanmohan Hundiwala
6351 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

06 Jul 81 - 20 Nov 83
Wing Commander
Baljinder Kumar Dhir
6460 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

07 Dec 83 - 10 Feb 86
Wing Commander
Virender Kumar Sharma
9795 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

10 Feb 86 - 22 May 88
Wing Commander
Pradeep Kumar Bose
11329 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

23 May 88 - 16 Jul 92
Wing Commander
Rodney Ian Peters
11452 GD(P)
CO
Bombay

17 Jul 92 - 24 Jan 94
Wing Commander
Viman Kumar Arora
12954 F(P)
CO
Bombay

25 Jan 94 - 20 Oct 96
Wing Commander
Ravi Shankar
14568 F(P)
CO
Bombay

22 Oct 96 - 14 Dec 97
Wing Commander
Anshu Kumar Matta
15875 F(P)
CO
Bombay

15 Dec 97 - 16 May 99
Wing Commander
Anand Mohan Bajpai
15896 F(P)
CO
Bombay

17 May 99 - 15 Aug 01
Wing Commander
Shriram Madhao Ghatpande
16822 F(P)
CO
Bombay

16 Aug 01 - 15 Jun 03
Wing Commander
Nitin B Sathe
17708 F(P)
CO
Bombay

16 Jun 03 - 25 Dec 05
Wing Commander
Sunil Khaura
18598 F(P)
CO
Bombay

26 Dec 05 - 02 Mar 08
Wing Commander
H R Pramodh Sharma
19188 F(P)
CO
Bombay

03 Mar 08 - 28 Mar 10
Wing Commander
Amitabh Sharma
21015 F(P)
CO
Bombay

29 Mar 10 - 25 Mar 12
Wing Commander
Keethepurathy Paremaswaran Nair
21727 F(P)
CO
Bombay

26 Mar 12 - 15 Jun 14
Wing Commander
Pankaj Kathpal
22955 F(P)
CO
Bombay
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