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 No.4 Squadron Oorials Motto : Maan Par Jaan (Death over Dishonour) Date Raised : 1941-02-01 Location : Uttarlai Read Detailed History
Aircraft Types operated over the years: |
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Feb 42 to 17 Aug 42 | Squadron Leader Habib Ullah Khan | 1557 GD(P) | CO | Peshawar |  |
| 01 Jan 49 to 01 Aug 49 | Squadron Leader Anant Vemanrao Samsi | 1865 GD(P) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Aug 49 to 01 Jun 51 | Squadron Leader Idris Hasan Latif | 1804 GD(P) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Jun 51 to 01 Nov 51 | Squadron Leader Vellore Manickam Radhakrishnan | 1769 GD(P) | CO | Jamnagar |  |
| 01 Nov 51 to 01 Jan 53 | Squadron Leader Prasanta Kumar Sarkar | 2443 GD(P) | CO | Jamnagar | |
| 01 Jan 53 to 01 Dec 54 | Squadron Leader Jafar Zaheer | 3173 GD(P) | CO | Jamnagar |  |
| 01 Dec 54 to 01 Apr 57 | Squadron Leader Virendra Mohan Bhatnagar | 3067 GD(P) | CO | Jamnagar |  |
| 01 Apr 57 to 04 Jul 58 | Squadron Leader Ajoy Kumar Bose | 2432 GD(P) | CO | Ambala |  |
| 05 Jul 58 to 01 Apr 61 | Squadron Leader Aubrey Leslie Michael | 3416 GD(P) | CO | Kalaikunda |  |
| 01 May 61 to 01 Jan 64 | Squadron Leader Melville Andrew Woodfall | 4021 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Jan 64 to 01 Aug 66 | Squadron Leader Pynummooltil Simon George | 4240 GD(P) | CO | Hashimara |  |
| 10 Sep 42 to 23 Mar 44 | Squadron Leader Mohammad Khan Janjua | 1561 GD(P) | CO | Kohat |  |
| 01 Aug 66 to 01 Oct 66 | Squadron Leader Onkar Singh Wadhawan | 4899 GD(P) | CO | Chandigarh |  |
| 01 Oct 66 to 01 Feb 67 | Wing Commander Norman Foster Watts | 3956 GD(P) | CO | Chandigarh | |
| 04 Apr 67 to 14 Jun 70 | Wing Commander Robert Arnold Weir | 3881 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 14 Jun 70 to 31 Dec 72 | Wing Commander Jayant Vishwanath Gole | 4578 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Jan 73 to 01 Apr 75 | Wing Commander Denzil Joseph Keelor | 4805 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur |  |
| 01 Apr 75 to 01 Jun 77 | Wing Commander Om Prakash Sharma | 5104 GD(P) | CO | Tezpur/ Bareilly |  |
| 01 Jun 77 to 01 May 79 | Wing Commander Bharat Kumar | 5787 GD(P) | CO | Bareilly/ Hashimara |  |
| 01 May 79 to 01 Apr 81 | Wing Commander Suresh Kumar Behal | 5786 GD(P) | CO | Hashimara |  |
| 01 Apr 81 to 01 Feb 83 | Wing Commander Anand Sakharam Gangoli | 7435 GD(P) | CO | Pune | |
| 07 Feb 83 to 21 May 85 | Wing Commander Dinesh Chander Nayyar | 8995 GD(P) | CO | Pune |  |
| 24 Mar 44 to 21 Feb 45 | Squadron Leader Geoffrey Stanton Sharp | RNZAF | CO | Chittagong | |
| 01 Jul 85 to 01 Jul 87 | Wing Commander Bhupinder Singh Marwa | 10518 GD(P) | CO | Pune/ Uttarlai |  |
| 01 Jul 87 to 01 May 89 | Wing Commander Karan Singh Chhina | 12389 GD(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 01 May 89 to 14 Nov 90 | Wing Commander Rajib Kumar Chakravorty | 12503 GD(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 15 Nov 90 to 01 Dec 92 | Wing Commander Virendra Singh Bajwa | 12940 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 01 Jan 92 to 01 Dec 93 | Wing Commander Krishna Kumar Swaminathan | 13251 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 01 Sep 94 to 01 Dec 95 | Wing Commander Shankar Mani | 13596 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 01 Jan 96 to 30 Apr 98 | Wing Commander Ram Kumar Mahadevan | 15033 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 01 May 98 to 30 Jun 00 | Wing Commander Pankaj Chopra | 15700 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 19 Jun 00 to 25 Sep 02 | Wing Commander Pradeep Deshpande | 16775 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 26 Sep 02 to 01 Jul 04 | Wing Commander Mrigendra Singh | 17324 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 22 Feb 45 to 02 Aug 45 | Squadron Leader W Boyd Berry | RAF | CO | Akyab | |
| 01 Jul 04 to 01 Jun 06 | Wing Commander Man Singh Awana | 19153 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai |  |
| 01 Jun 06 to 01 Jun 08 | Wing Commander Sanyam Prerak Dhankar | 21849 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai | |
| 01 Jun 08 to 01 Jun 10 | Wing Commander Hemant Singh | 20993 F(P) | CO | Uttarlai | |
| 12 Aug 45 to 01 Feb 46 | Squadron Leader Erlic Wilmot Pinto | 1593 GD(P) | CO | HMS Vengeance |  |
| 01 Feb 46 to 01 Nov 46 | Squadron Leader Jagdev Chandra | 1612 GD(P) | CO - To 8 Sqn | HMS Vengeance |  |
| 01 Nov 46 to 27 May 47 | Squadron Leader Minoo Merwan Engineer | 1614 GD(P) | CO | Miho, Japan |  |
| 01 Jun 47 to 01 Aug 48 | Squadron Leader Maurice Barker | 1691 GD(P) | CO | Kanpur |  |
| 01 Aug 48 to 01 Jan 49 | Squadron Leader Ramchandra Vasudeo Ghisad | 1730 GD(P) | CO | Ganavaran | |
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