24 Equipment Depot Date Raised : 1966-12-13 Location : Manauri 302 Maintenance Units was established in 1939 at Allahabad. During 1942, it was converted into a Universal Equipment Depot, the first ever such Depot in South East Asia as per RAF records, to sustain the air operations of Allied Forces during the Second World War. In 1948 the Depot was renamed as 4 Equipment Depot and was rechristened as 24 Equipment Depot in year 1966. Traversing through the days of providing spares support to aircrafts such as Tempest, Spitfire, Gnat, Marut, Canberra and Hunter aircraft, 24 Equipment Depot now stores spares for Jaguar, Avro and Dornier aircraft, Chetak / Chetah and Cheetal Helicopters, ALH and RPA.
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14 Dec 66 - 27 Oct 69Group CaptainManmohan Malhotra2045 EQPTCOManauri | 28 Oct 69 - 30 Jun 72Group CaptainSrijoyananda Patnaik1785 EQPTCOManauri | 01 Jul 72 - 05 Jan 75Group CaptainKuppuswamier Chidambaram3531 EQPTCOManauri | 06 Jan 75 - 31 Dec 77Group CaptainSubramania Ramakrishnan3707 EQPTCOManauri | 01 Jan 78 - 09 Feb 79Group CaptainParameshwara Iyer Venkatachalam Iyer4182 EQPTCOManauri | |
10 Feb 79 - 18 Nov 79Wing CommanderRamesh Chandra Adhaulya5166 EQPTCOManauri | 19 Nov 79 - 03 Jan 82Group CaptainAshok Sarkar4463 EQPTCOManauri | 04 Jan 82 - 25 Feb 84Group CaptainAustin Marian Menezes5471 EQPTCOManauri | 26 Feb 84 - 16 Jun 85Group CaptainShishir Kumar Chaturvedi5814 EQPTCOManauri | 17 Jun 85 - 31 Aug 88Air CommodoreNirmal Kumar Mathur5172 EQPTAOCManauri | |
01 Sep 88 - 02 Jun 91Air CommodoreBal Krishan Challu5647 EQPTAOCManauri | 05 Aug 91 - 26 Nov 92Air CommodoreVinod Singh Rawat6043 EQPTAOCManauri | 27 Nov 92 - 29 Sep 94Air CommodoreSuresh Chandra Vohra6713 EQPTAOCManauri | 30 Sep 94 - 18 Aug 96Air CommodoreJagdish Singh Dalal9228 EQPTAOCManauri | 19 Aug 96 - 30 Nov 97Air CommodoreRamamoorthy Jayaraman9656 EQPTAOCManauri | |
01 Dec 97 - 18 Jan 98Air CommodoreGordon Peter Douglas D'Souza10984 GD(P)AOCManauri | 20 Apr 98 - 18 Jun 00Air CommodoreSurinder Mohan Taxali9789 GD(P)AOCManauri | 19 Jun 00 - 31 Oct 01Air CommodoreGordon Peter Douglas D'Souza10984 GD(P)AOCManauri | 01 Nov 01 - 31 Aug 02Air CommodoreVipin Kumar11950 EQPTAOCManauri | 01 Sep 02 - 31 Oct 04Air CommodoreSunil Kumar Sinha12355 EQPTAOCManauri | |
01 Nov 04 - 30 Dec 05Air CommodoreJalbir Singh Boparai13108 LGSAOCManauri | 02 Jan 06 - 29 Aug 06Air CommodoreSundaram Sriram13408 LGSAOCManauri | 01 Sep 06 - 31 Mar 07Air CommodoreArabida Mohanty13414 LGSAOCManauri | | 01 Oct 09 - 16 Oct 11Air CommodoreJai Vir Singh15758 LGSAOCManauri | |
| 23 Dec 13 - 29 Jun 15Air CommodoreMannepalli Baladitya17230 LGSAOCManauri | 30 Jun 15 - 20 Feb 17Air CommodoreSanjay Aneja17234 LGSAOCManauri | | | |