30 Equipment Depot


Date Raised : 1967-01-01 Location : Mumbai
411 Air Force Station Mumbai -From No. 305 Maintenance Units, Royal Air Force in 1945, — holding aircraft spares at Cotton Green — Air Force Station Bombay was reestablished as No. 02 Equipment Depot (ED) in 1948, which in turn was redesignated as No. 22 ED, AirForce Station Bombay in 1964. Subsequently, in1967 an element of No. 22 ED was converted into No. 30 ED AF. The evolution took a step ahead on 07 Sep 1981, when No. 30 ED Air Force Station Bombay was bifurcated into two separate entities, 411 Air Force Station Bombay with Headquarters at Cotton Green and No. 30 ED AF with Headquarters at Santacruw. However, this Equipment Depot became a lodger Units of Airforce Station Mumbai on 10 Apr 1997.
Unit previously existed as 22 ED

Commanding Officers


23 Aug 85 - 30 Jun 88
Wing Commander
Sharad Kumar Chaturvedi
8069 EQPT
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

01 Jul 88 - 10 May 91
Wing Commander
Vijay Krishna Seth
9234 EQPT
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

15 Apr 93 - 30 Aug 96
Group Captain
Prakash Vishwanath Karapurkar
11105 EQPT
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

31 Aug 96 - 24 Jul 00
Wing Commander
Vinay Kumar Kwatra
13677 LGS
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

25 Jul 00 - 29 Jun 03
Wing Commander
Brij Mohan Kumar Arora
15359 LGS
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

30 Jun 03 - 29 Jun 05
Wing Commander
Rajan Paradayil George
15751 LGS
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

30 Jun 05 - 28 Oct 06
Wing Commander
Kalvakuntla Shekhar Reddy
17774 LGS
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

17 Nov 06 -
Wing Commander
Jagdish Kumar Raval
18175 LGS
CO
Cotton Green (Mumbai

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