20 Wing Date Raised : 1962-11-29 Location : Bagdogra Air Force Station Bagdogra, near Siliguri in West Bengal was formed on 29 November 1962, in the wake of the Sino-Indian border conflict. Like Air Force Station Guwahati, this Station was set up to exercise command and control over Fighter Sqns, Helicopter and Transport Units. The role of the Station changed in April 1970 when it started exercising administrative control on two Fighter Sqns, one Helicopter Unit and two Air Observation Posts. A Survival security support Flight was moved to this Air Base in December 1982. The EAC Communication Flight was merged with this Flight in September 1997. This Flight was tasked to undertake Search and Rescue missions (SAR) during natural Since February 1989, a Signal Unit established at this Station has been providing multi-channel communication facilities for Air Defence and Administrative Communication to the designated units. A Mobile Observation Flight formed at this Base in February 1982 provides early warning of airborne objects to alert air defence measures. |
Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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19 Mar 65 to 14 Apr 67 | Wing Commander Narendra Bahadur Singh | 2971 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bagdogra | |
29 Nov 69 to 25 Jan 73 | Group Captain Minoo Jehangir Dotiwalla | 3839 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bagdogra | |
26 Jan 73 to 23 Nov 73 | Group Captain Johney William Greene | 4093 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bagdogra | |
24 Nov 73 to 31 Dec 74 | Group Captain Denis Anthony Lafontaine | 3844 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bagdogra | |
Unknown to | Group Captain Sukh Dev Mohan | 4789 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bagdogra | |
21 Feb 81 to 25 Nov 83 | Group Captain Viney Kapila | 5596 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bagdogra | |
26 Nov 83 to 05 Feb 86 | Air Commodore Chandra Sekhar Doraiswamy | 5601 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
06 Feb 86 to 29 Dec 88 | Air Commodore Amarjit Singh Sethi | 5682 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
30 Dec 88 to 25 Nov 90 | Air Commodore Jagbir Singh | 5783 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
26 Nov 90 to 14 Mar 93 | Air Commodore Surinder Kumar Mitroo | 7688 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
15 Mar 93 to 31 Jan 96 | Air Commodore Surjit Singh | 8148 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
18 Mar 96 to 04 Feb 98 | Air Commodore Narendra Minocha | 9513 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
29 Jun 98 to 02 Aug 00 | Air Commodore Jaspal Singh Gujral | 11300 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
03 Aug 00 to 05 Jan 03 | Air Commodore Prakash Prahalad Dani | 12214 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
06 Jan 03 to 23 Dec 04 | Air Commodore Mohan John | 13131 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
24 Dec 04 to 15 Dec 06 | Air Commodore Ramesh Malhotra | 13590 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
13 Dec 07 to 30 Aug 09 | Air Commodore Anil Kumar Jain | 14565 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
31 Aug 09 to 30 Apr 11 | Air Commodore Krishnan Sundarram | 17163 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
01 May 11 to 31 Dec 12 | Air Commodore Jonnalagedda Chalapati | 17358 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra | |
01 Jan 13 to 31 Jul 14 | Air Commodore Balabhadra Radha Krishna | 17326 F(P) | AOC | Bagdogra |