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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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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14 Dec 66 to 27 Oct 69 | Group Captain Manmohan Malhotra | 2045 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
28 Oct 69 to 30 Jun 72 | Group Captain Srijoyananda Patnaik | 1785 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
01 Jul 72 to 05 Jan 75 | Group Captain Kuppuswamier Chidambaram | 3531 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
06 Jan 75 to 31 Dec 77 | Group Captain Subramania Ramakrishnan | 3707 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
01 Jan 78 to 09 Feb 79 | Group Captain Parameshwara Iyer Venkatachalam Iyer | 4182 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
10 Feb 79 to 18 Nov 79 | Wing Commander Ramesh Chandra Adhaulya | 5166 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
19 Nov 79 to 03 Jan 82 | Group Captain Ashok Sarkar | 4463 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
04 Jan 82 to 25 Feb 84 | Group Captain Austin Marian Menezes | 5471 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
26 Feb 84 to 16 Jun 85 | Group Captain Shishir Kumar Chaturvedi | 5814 EQPT | CO | Manauri | |
17 Jun 85 to 31 Aug 88 | Air Commodore Nirmal Kumar Mathur | 5172 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
01 Sep 88 to 02 Jun 91 | Air Commodore Bal Krishan Challu | 5647 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
05 Aug 91 to 26 Nov 92 | Air Commodore Vinod Singh Rawat | 6043 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
27 Nov 92 to 29 Sep 94 | Air Commodore Suresh Chandra Vohra | 6713 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
30 Sep 94 to 18 Aug 96 | Air Commodore Jagdish Singh Dalal | 9228 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
19 Aug 96 to 30 Nov 97 | Air Commodore Ramamoorthy Jayaraman | 9656 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
01 Dec 97 to 18 Jan 98 | Air Commodore Gordon Peter Douglas D'Souza | 10984 GD(P) | AOC | Manauri | |
20 Apr 98 to 18 Jun 00 | Air Commodore Surinder Mohan Taxali | 9789 GD(P) | AOC | Manauri | |
19 Jun 00 to 31 Oct 01 | Air Commodore Gordon Peter Douglas D'Souza | 10984 GD(P) | AOC | Manauri | |
01 Nov 01 to 31 Aug 02 | Air Commodore Vipin Kumar | 11950 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
01 Sep 02 to 31 Oct 04 | Air Commodore Sunil Kumar Sinha | 12355 EQPT | AOC | Manauri | |
01 Nov 04 to 30 Dec 05 | Air Commodore Jalbir Singh Boparai | 13108 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
02 Jan 06 to 29 Aug 06 | Air Commodore Sundaram Sriram | 13408 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
01 Sep 06 to 31 Mar 07 | Air Commodore Arabida Mohanty | 13414 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
02 Apr 07 to 30 Sep 09 | Air Commodore Raj Kapoor Upreti | 13417 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
01 Oct 09 to 16 Oct 11 | Air Commodore Jai Vir Singh | 15758 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
17 Oct 11 to 22 Dec 13 | Air Commodore Kaustubh Shrikant Phansalkar | 16123 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
23 Dec 13 to 29 Jun 15 | Air Commodore Mannepalli Baladitya | 17230 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
30 Jun 15 to 20 Feb 17 | Air Commodore Sanjay Aneja | 17234 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
21 Feb 17 to | Air Commodore Aloke Roy | 17783 LGS | AOC | Manauri | |
Unknown to 01 Jul 21 | Air Commodore Sanyog Mehta | 18655 LGS | AOC | Manauri |