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2 Tactical Air Center Date Raised : 1957-04-01 Location : Jodhpur This centre was formed on 16 Mar 50 as No. 2 Air Task Force (ATF)at2 Equipment Depot Bombay. Nucleus of officers and airmen arrived on attachment to 2 ED, AF for performing the duties. The role of the formation was to control AF Unitss in conducting Joint Operations Army in Bombay area. On 22 Jan 55, the name of this formation was changed to No. 2 Tactical Air Supports Group (TASG) keeping in its role and task. In the mean time, an Air Force element of joint HQ Bombay came in existence in 1957, therefore, the name of the formation was changed to 2 Tactical Air Centre (TAC) in Apr 57. The centre after its initial formation at Bombay moved to Pune in Apr 57 to function with HQ Southern Command (Army). Subsequently, it moved to Bareilly in Apr 63, Kaluchak in Sep 65 and back to Bareilly in Jan 72. The centre moved to its present location in May 78.
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Unit previously existed as 2 TASG
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Apr 57 to 01 Jan 60 | Group Captain Minoo Merwan Engineer | 1614 GD(P) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Jan 60 to 01 Sep 60 | Wing Commander Samir Banerji | 2881 GD(P) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Sep 60 to 01 Dec 61 | Wing Commander Edul Jahangir Dhatigara | 1899 GD(O) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Dec 61 to 01 Apr 62 | Wing Commander Sarab Daman Singh | 3176 GD(P) | CO | Pune | |
| 01 Apr 62 to 01 Oct 62 | Wing Commander Phiroz Mehta | 1715 GD(P) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Oct 62 to 01 Apr 63 | Wing Commander Chaman Lal Datta | 2632 GD(P) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Apr 63 to 01 Jan 64 | Wing Commander Baldev Sahai Agnihotri | 1885 GD(O) | CO | Bareilly |  |
| 01 Jan 64 to 01 Jan 65 | Wing Commander Dyal Singh | 3489 GD(N) | CO | Bareilly |  |
| 01 Jan 65 to 01 Jul 65 | Wing Commander Melville Vivian Ducasse | 3236 GD(P) | CO | Bareilly | |
| 01 Jul 65 to 12 Jul 67 | Group Captain Sudhananda Roy | 2296 GD(AG) | CO | Bareilly/ Kaluchak |  |
| 13 Jul 67 to 16 Aug 69 | Group Captain Narayanaswami Ganapathi | 3375 GD(N) | CO | Kaluchak | |
| 16 Aug 69 to 01 Oct 71 | Group Captain George Jagdish Shaw | 3362 GD(P) | CO | Kaluchak |  |
| 02 Oct 71 to 31 May 76 | Group Captain Kuldip Singh Pal | 3316 GD(N) | CO | Kaluchak/ Bareilly | |
| 30 Aug 76 to 25 Mar 79 | Group Captain Om Prakash Kukreja | 4394 GD(N) | CO | Bareilly |  |
| 24 Dec 79 to 31 Mar 83 | Group Captain Sudesh Kumar Kapur | 4880 GD(P) | CO | Bareilly/ Jodhpur | |
| 06 Apr 83 to 05 Aug 84 | Group Captain Trevor Joseph Fernandes | 5287 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 17 Aug 84 to 13 Oct 85 | Group Captain Manbir Singh | 6771 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 04 Nov 85 to 17 May 87 | Group Captain Shyam Hattangdi | 8135 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 19 May 87 to 17 Apr 88 | Wing Commander Suneelkumar Sudamrao Bhonsle | 7400 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
| 18 Apr 88 to 31 Mar 89 | Group Captain Randhir Singh Viyogi | 7175 GD(N) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 08 May 89 to 22 Dec 91 | Group Captain Ashok Kumar Talwar | 9057 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 23 Dec 91 to 25 Aug 93 | Group Captain Rajinder Pal Singh | 10601 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 26 Aug 93 to 18 Jun 95 | Group Captain Anup Kumar Shyam | 12065 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 26 Aug 95 to 09 Oct 96 | Group Captain Gurcharan Singh Bhogal | 12504 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 13 Jan 97 to 09 May 99 | Group Captain Malvinder Singh Ahluwalia | 13809 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 10 May 99 to 05 Apr 02 | Group Captain Jayaraman Lakshminarayanan | 14110 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 16 Dec 02 to 13 Feb 05 | Group Captain Charles James Weir | 14697 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 14 Feb 05 to 01 May 08 | Group Captain Satnam Singh | 14676 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
| 02 May 08 to 17 Mar 09 | Group Captain Tejinder Singh Sareen | 17138 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
| 18 Mar 09 to 06 Jun 11 | Group Captain Jaideep Singh Hora | 18105 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
| 07 Jun 11 to 16 Jun 13 | Group Captain Mahesh K Sihag | 18692 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
| 05 Sep 16 to 07 Sep 17 | Group Captain Navin Chander Bhatt | 24476 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
| 07 Dec 17 to 04 Nov 18 | Group Captain Sivaraman Sajan | 21807 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur |  |
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