35 Wing Date Raised : 1980-02-18 Location : Suratgarh The site selected for the airfield was an open area around the village of Karnisar. Work commenced in Aug 1973 with the clearing and levelling of the sand dunes. In the absence of any other local army Unitss, the personnel survived on a diet consisting of canal fish since the construction plans of airfield were a top secret matter. The Commanding Officer had to sleep every night guarding the papers, locked in a box that was chained to his wrist. Thus originated 11 Forward Base Support Units on 27 Oct 1975, which moved to its present location in Jan 1976. The base became operational on 02 May 1976 with 17 Squadron (MiG-21) and 20 Squadron (Hunters) moving in and was converted to 35 Wing on 18 Feb 1980 with the aim to enhance the operational flexibility on the Western Front. Since Oct 1975, the Wing has seen a steady induction of various aircrafts, SAMs, Radars signal and other operational Unitss.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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27 Feb 89 to 11 Jun 90 | Group Captain Mohinder Singh Bhatia | 8734 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
16 Jul 90 to 28 Dec 92 | Group Captain Brijendra Mohan Bali | 8438 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
01 Jan 93 to 31 May 95 | Group Captain Ashok Dharam Chhibbar | 12118 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
01 Jun 95 to 13 Nov 96 | Group Captain Rajesh Lal | 11634 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
14 Nov 96 to 26 Jul 98 | Group Captain Gurcharan Singh Bhogal | 12504 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
27 Jul 98 to 13 Jun 99 | Group Captain Venkataraman Ramamurthy Iyer | 12939 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
21 Jun 99 to 01 May 01 | Group Captain Anjan Kumar Gogoi | 13382 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
02 May 01 to 16 Oct 02 | Group Captain Atul Saikia | 13585 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
16 Oct 02 to 09 May 04 | Group Captain Jasbir Singh Walia | 15684 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
10 May 04 to 05 Jan 07 | Group Captain Perumpillabil Narayanan Radha Govind | 15019 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
05 Jan 07 to 02 Nov 08 | Group Captain Neeraj Yadav | 16399 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
03 Nov 08 to 24 Mar 10 | Group Captain Shiv Ratan Singh | 18083 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
25 Mar 10 to 25 Apr 10 | Group Captain Diptendu Choudhury | 17335 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suratgarh | |
26 Apr 10 to 25 Aug 10 | Air Commodore Diptendu Choudhury | 17335 F(P) | AOC | Suratgarh | |
26 Aug 10 to 29 Dec 11 | Air Commodore Gedela Raveendranath | 16985 F(P) | AOC | Suratgarh | |
30 Dec 11 to 21 Jun 15 | Air Commodore Pradeep Waman Ambedkar | 16600 F(P) | AOC | Suratgarh | |
22 Jun 15 to 30 Jul 17 | Air Commodore Biplab Banerjee | 17869 F(P) | AOC | Suratgarh | |
31 Jul 17 to 05 Jan 20 | Air Commodore G Krishan Mohan | 20124 F(P) | AOC | Suratgarh |