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AFS Sambra Location : Belgaum Belgaum camp along with an airstrip was built in the early 1940s. No 672 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was active at Sambra Base during World War II from February 26 to 30, 1945. The squadron was moved to Sambra to use it for airborne operations by South East Asia Command. In 1948, Belgaum base camp was taken over by the Special Reserve Police of Karnataka. In 1961, a detachment landed at this base to carry out specific operations for Goa liberation. Sambra was taken over by IAF when No 1 GTS, located at Jalahalli, was shifted to Sambra in 1963. On 15 Dec 2001, ATI shifted back to Tambaran and the station was renamed as Airmen Training School (ATS). It was reassigned the task of conducting Joint Basic Phase Training (JBPT). The station was renamed as 405 AFS Sambra but continued to be addressed as ATS. ATS now has two training wing – ATS (Now called Basic Training Institute (BTI) and NTTI. In addition Air Force School of Physical Fitness and 253 SU are also lodger Units
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| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| Unknown to 01 Apr 78 | Wing Commander William George Beddoe | 4686 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Jan 72 to 04 Aug 74 | Wing Commander Shri Krishna Chandra Gupta | 3568 ADM | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 05 Aug 74 to 06 Jun 76 | Group Captain Amrik Singh Ahluwalia | 4778 F(N) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Apr 78 to 31 Aug 79 | Wing Commander Virendra Naidu | 4920 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Oct 79 to 01 Oct 80 | Wing Commander Om Prakash Taneja | 5510 ADM | Stn Cdr | Belgaum | |
| 27 Oct 80 to 01 Nov 83 | Group Captain Arun Kumar Bahl | 5330 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum | |
| 01 Mar 84 to 01 Jun 85 | Group Captain Krishnan Narayan Nair | 6346 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Jun 85 to 01 Oct 86 | Group Captain Deepak Anand | 5588 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum | |
| 01 Oct 86 to 01 May 87 | Group Captain Anand Sakharam Gangoli | 7435 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum | |
| 01 Jun 87 to 01 Oct 89 | Group Captain Shyam Sunder Singh Chauhan | 8780 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Oct 89 to 01 Apr 92 | Group Captain Ashley Malcolm Rodriques | 8186 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 May 92 to 01 Jul 94 | Group Captain Servio Cristo Fernandes | 11363 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Jul 94 to 31 Dec 96 | Group Captain Rajkumar Joseph Williams | 9036 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Jan 97 to 01 Mar 00 | Group Captain Conrad Anthony Dalton | 12430 F(N) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Apr 00 to 31 Aug 02 | Group Captain Ravinder Singh Raghav | 13142 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 31 Aug 02 to 01 Jul 05 | Group Captain Sudhir Kumar Sinha | 14084 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Jul 05 to 01 Jul 08 | Group Captain Kumar Krishnachandrasinghji Gohil | 14688 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 07 Jul 08 to 01 Nov 09 | Group Captain Kulkarni Raghavendra | 17161 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 Nov 09 to 24 Apr 12 | Group Captain Joseph Vithayathil Paul | 17165 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum |  |
| 01 May 12 to 01 Aug 14 | Group Captain Stanzin Thenless | 19970 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Belgaum | |
| 27 Jun 17 to 01 Jul 18 | Air Commodore Arun Bhaskar Gupta | 18121 F(P) | AOC | Belgaum |  |
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