36 Wing


Date Raised : 1984-10-09 Location : Vadodara
AFS Baroda came into existence at Makarpura Summer palace on 19 Dec 1963 as No.7 Ground Training School with the role to impart training for the SA-2 systems. 36 Wing was formed on 9 oct 84 as a full fledged SAGW wing to exercise functional and admin control on various Unitss existing ar that time including Tettra and SAGW sqn
Unit previously existed as 7 GTS

Commanding Officers


09 Oct 84 - 04 Jan 87
Air Commodore
Avinash Goswami
5094 GD(N)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

15 Jan 87 - 31 Aug 88
Air Commodore
Arun Kumar Bahl
5330 GD(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

28 Nov 88 - 09 Sep 90
Air Commodore
Shailendra Singh Kaushik
6766 GD(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

02 Oct 90 - 08 Sep 91
Air Commodore
Krishan Kumar Chauhan
7140 GD(N)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

09 Sep 91 - 30 Nov 94
Air Commodore
Avinash Chander Goel
6503 GD(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

01 Dec 94 - 16 Nov 97
Air Commodore
Arun Laxman Deoskar
9058 GD(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

17 Nov 97 - 03 Jan 00
Air Commodore
Packiam Paul Rajkumar
12018 GD(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

04 Jan 00 - 31 Jan 02
Air Commodore
Maheshwar Dutt
11607 GD(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

01 Feb 02 - 29 Feb 04
Air Commodore
Devendra Nath Ganesh
13243 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

01 Mar 04 - 26 Jun 05
Air Commodore
Ravindranath Naraindas Merani
13788 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

27 Jun 05 - 26 Dec 06
Air Commodore
Hari Naidu
14286 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

27 Dec 06 - 15 Jun 08
Air Commodore
Ranveer Singh Chaudhry
13769 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

16 Jun 08 - 31 Dec 09
Air Commodore
Ashminder Singh Bahal
16208 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

09 Jan 10 - 10 Jul 11
Air Commodore
Daljeet Singh Ahluwalia
16571 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

11 Jul 11 - 30 Nov 13
Air Commodore
Reetinder Singh Sodhi
15693 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

01 Dec 13 - 21 Jun 15
Air Commodore
Parag Sharma
17009 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

26 Dec 16 - 31 Oct 18
Air Commodore
Bakul Vaikunthrai Upadhyay
18281 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

01 Nov 18 -
Air Commodore
Ichettira Iyappa Kuttappa
20758 F(P)
AOC
Makarpura (Vadodara)

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