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2 Air Force Selection Board


Date Raised : 1962-04-17 Location : Mysore
No 2 Air Force Selection Board at Mysore came into existence and was raised on 17 Apr 62. Gp Capt AV Samsi took over the command on 21 Sep 62 as the first President of the Board.

Commanding Officers


21 Sep 62 - 02 Mar 66
Group Captain
Anant Vemanrao Samsi
1865 GD(P)
President
Mysore

14 Sep 66 - 22 Nov 66
Group Captain
Manmohan Malhotra
2045 EQPT
President
Mysore

11 Jan 67 - 28 Jan 70
Group Captain
Walter Joseph Fernandes
2713 GD(P)
President
Mysore

29 Jan 70 - 28 Jan 73
Group Captain
Rajagopalan Krishnamurthy
3386 GD(N)
President
Mysore

29 Jan 73 - 03 Mar 74
Group Captain
Achengaden John Chacko
3833 GD(N)
President
Mysore

04 Mar 74 - 07 Jul 77
Group Captain
William Blazey
4114 GD(N)
President
Mysore

11 Jul 77 - 23 Dec 79
Group Captain
Sohan Lal Tandon
4334 GD(P)
President
Mysore

24 Dec 79 - 20 Feb 83
Group Captain
Carlton Raymond Vardon
4561 GD(N)
President
Mysore

21 Feb 83 - 10 Nov 84
Group Captain
Muhamed Abdul Rehman
5711 GD(N)
President
Mysore

19 Nov 84 - 05 Jan 86
Air Commodore
Surinder Pal Dhawan
5298 GD(N)
President
Mysore

31 Jan 86 - 30 Sep 87
Air Commodore
Virendra Naidu
4920 GD(P)
President
Mysore

04 Jan 88 - 30 Nov 90
Group Captain
Subhash Krishnarao Parelkar
7145 GD(N)
President
Mysore

15 Apr 91 - 30 Aug 94
Group Captain
Jitendra Vikram Singh
9097 GD(N)
President
Mysore

31 Aug 94 - 26 Jan 97
Group Captain
Abhijit Sen
11803 GD(N)
President
Mysore

27 Jan 97 - 13 Jun 99
Group Captain
Kambiranda Poovaiah Devia
12949 F(P)
President
Mysore

14 Jun 99 - 11 Nov 01
Group Captain
Ajay Kumar Dudeja
13595 F(P)
President
Mysore

12 Nov 01 - 22 Feb 04
Group Captain
Suman Sharma
13775 F(P)
President
Mysore

28 Feb 04 - 31 Jan 06
Group Captain
Atul Chaudhury
13935 F(P)
President
Mysore

13 Feb 06 - 18 Jun 08
Group Captain
Arun Chandra Kalita
15680 F(P)
President
Mysore

07 Jul 08 - 30 May 10
Group Captain
M V Shivram
18120 F(P)
President
Mysore

10 May 10 - 25 Dec 12
Group Captain
T M Shashidhar
17439 F(P)
President
Mysore

26 Dec 12 - 31 May 15
Air Commodore
Om Prakash Tiwari
16678 F(N)
President
Mysore

01 Jun 15 - 31 Aug 15
Air Vice Marshal
Om Prakash Tiwari
16678 F(N)
President
Mysore

28 Sep 15 - 24 Apr 17
Air Commodore
Kallappa Hollannavar Suresh
18124 F(P)
President
Mysore

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Nitin B Sathe
17708 F(P)
President
Mysore

Unknown - 31 Aug 23
Air Commodore
P Saravanan
21043 F(N)
President
Mysore
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