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26 Wing


Date Raised : 1968-05-01 Location : Thane
26 Wing was raised at Thane in May 1968 as a Surface to Air Missile Establishment tasked with protecting Bombay and environs. It operated with 2 Combat and one tech SAGW sqns. The Wing is spread across three pcokets namely main base at Thane , AF Sheva and Karave

Commanding Officers


17 Apr 72 - 31 May 72
Group Captain
Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar
3484 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

19 Sep 81 - 31 Jan 83
Group Captain
S N Srinivasan

Stn Cdr
Thane

01 Sep 83 - 17 Aug 85
Group Captain
Sharadchandra Naresh Deshpande
5452 GD(N)
Stn Cdr
Thane

14 Oct 85 - 25 Nov 87
Group Captain
Nitin Gajanan Junnarkar
7477 GD(N)
Stn Cdr
Thane

26 Nov 87 - 30 Nov 88
Group Captain
Harbans Perminder Singh
7485 GD(N)
Stn Cdr
Thane

09 Dec 88 - 26 Apr 92
Group Captain
Satish Kapoor
6774 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

24 Jul 92 - 31 Dec 92
Group Captain
Raghbir Singh
10243 GD(N)
Stn Cdr
Thane

11 Jan 93 - 02 May 96
Group Captain
Ashok Gajanan Chitre
10959 GD(N)
Stn Cdr
Thane

03 May 96 - 12 Jan 98
Group Captain
Ram Mohan Shridharan
12033 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

30 Mar 98 - 10 Jun 01
Group Captain
Raj Singh Kataria
13946 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

16 Aug 01 - 14 Oct 03
Group Captain
Vinod Kumar Sood
13781 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

15 Oct 03 - 10 Oct 06
Group Captain
Pandurang Narayana Pradhan
16403 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

11 Oct 06 - 11 Oct 08
Group Captain
Virendra Kumar Khorana
16221 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

24 Nov 08 - 24 Sep 10
Group Captain
Lalan Kumar
18596 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Thane

25 Sep 10 - 08 Jul 12
Group Captain
Akhil Kumar Gupta
18316 ADM
Stn Cdr
Thane
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