33 Wing Date Raised : 1978-04-22 Location : Jamnagar After Independence, the IAF setup the Armament Training Wing for Air to Ground and Air to Air Armament training. It had an air to ground range at Sarmat and and air to air range in gulf of Kutch near the coastal strip of Jodhya - Balachandi. The ATW had a staff of PAIs (Pilot Attack instructors) who conducted the training. It has no aircrafts of its own except a few Dakotas. The ATW staff was considered the cream the fighter pilots. In 1957-58 a PAI School (Pilot Attack Instructors) was formed to train instructors. A new Air to Air range was bought into Gulf of Arabia. In 1964, a new operational Conversion Units (OCU) was formed with Hunter aircraft. the PAI school was closed in 1975. OCU moved out and TACDE moved in. On 22 April 1978, ATW was converted into a operational wing by the name of 33 Wing.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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02 Jan 78 to 25 Mar 79 | Group Captain Bhupendra Kumar Bishnoi | 4594 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jamnagar | |
26 Mar 79 to 15 Feb 81 | Air Commodore Pattathil Venugopal | 4431 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
16 Feb 81 to 15 Aug 83 | Air Commodore Tapas Kumar Sen | 4475 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
16 Aug 83 to 01 Jan 85 | Air Commodore Dushyant Singh | 5048 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
02 Jan 85 to 11 Jan 87 | Air Commodore Prabhat Kumar Varma | 4822 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
12 Jan 87 to 11 Jan 89 | Air Commodore Prithvi Singh Brar | 6007 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
12 Jan 89 to 30 Dec 90 | Air Commodore Trevor Raymond Joseph Osman | 6005 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
31 Dec 90 to 20 Jun 93 | Air Commodore Shashindra Pal Tyagi | 8130 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
21 Jun 93 to 26 Nov 95 | Air Commodore Kurumthodathil Cherian Phillipose | 7702 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
27 Nov 95 to 30 Dec 96 | Air Commodore Surendra Singh Tyagi | 9467 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
31 Dec 96 to 29 Dec 97 | Air Commodore Mohan Dikshit | 11309 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
30 Dec 97 to 16 Dec 99 | Air Commodore Shiv Kumar Bhan | 12510 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
17 Dec 99 to 26 Aug 01 | Air Commodore Udoy Narayan Ganguly | 12381 GD(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
26 Aug 01 to 15 Aug 03 | Air Commodore Ajay Shrivniwas Karnik | 13140 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
16 Oct 03 to 19 Jun 05 | Air Commodore Amul Kapoor | 13378 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
20 Jun 05 to 01 Apr 07 | Air Commodore Devinder Singh | 14284 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
02 Apr 07 to 20 Apr 08 | Air Commodore Ravi Kant Sharma | 14088 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
21 Apr 08 to 28 Dec 09 | Air Commodore Chandrashekharan Hari Kumar | 15881 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
29 Dec 09 to 30 Jan 11 | Air Commodore Devendra Singh Rawat | 16242 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
31 Jan 11 to 18 Dec 11 | Air Commodore Raghunath Nambiar | 16378 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
19 Dec 11 to 19 Oct 14 | Air Commodore Pravin Ramehandra Navalkar | 17173 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
20 Oct 14 to 31 Jul 17 | Air Commodore Sanjay Nimesh | 17862 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
01 Aug 17 to 05 Jun 18 | Air Commodore Sanjai Chauhan | 20466 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar | |
01 Jan 20 to | Air Commodore Mehtab Singh Deswal | 20131 F(P) | AOC | Jamnagar |