AFS Bidar Date Raised : 1983-09-30 Location : Bidar Bidar airfield was built by the Nizam of Hyderabad during the unsettled conditions of 1943 -1947. It remained in disuse till activated by the Air Force with the location of No 2 Jet Training Wing in 1963. This was disbanded in 1965 and the airfield remained inactive till 1966. The Elementary Flying School, i.e. EFS was located at Bidar thereafter. This FTE was formed at Allahabad in 1963 to cater for the increased induction of pilots under the expansion programme of Air Force. While at Allahabad this FTE was known as Pilots Training establishment and was providing ab-initio training on HT-2 aircraft. In 1966, the establishment, after relocation at Bidar was renamed Elementary Flying School (EFS). However, the training pattern remained unchanged. In 1983, the role of EFS changed with the introduction of "All Through Jet Training" scheme for pilots (except those from Army). The Station was then tasked to undertake Stage-II (Advanced) phase of training on Kiran Mk-I A aircraft. Ab-initio training was shifted to AFA. In June 1988, Kiran Mk-II aircraft was inducted for Stage-II (advanced) phase of flying training as an additional squadron along with Mk-I As. In 1996, the Surya Kiran aerobatics team was also formed at AF Stn Bidar and in Sep 1999, the 955 sqn , a T-GCA sqn equipped with the RSP-10 Radar moved from Chandigarh to Bidar. Since January 2006 the Station has changed over to Stage Ill (F) Flying training on Kiran.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
30 Sep 83 - 19 Apr 84Group CaptainRama Nand Gautam5275 GD(P)Stn CdrBidar | 19 Apr 84 - 27 Jan 86Group CaptainDebatosh Banerjee5800 GD(P)Stn CdrBidar | 29 Mar 86 - 26 Oct 88Air CommodoreManjunath Sadanand4994 GD(P)AOCBidar | 28 Nov 88 - 13 May 91Air CommodoreManjit Singh Sekhon6756 GD(P)AOCBidar | 13 May 91 - 12 Nov 92Air CommodoreSwaran Singh Banga8100 GD(P)AOCBidar | |
12 Nov 92 - 31 May 94Air CommodoreEapen Mathulla8365 GD(P)AOCBidar | 01 Jun 94 - 26 Dec 94Air CommodoreNarayan Menon9005 GD(P)AOCBidar | 02 Jan 95 - 30 Dec 95Air CommodoreNirmal Thusu9033 GD(P)AOCBidar | 01 Feb 96 - 04 Jan 98Air CommodoreAvinash Deodata Joshi10886 GD(P)AOCBidar | 05 Jan 98 - 04 Jan 00Air CommodoreKanwar Dalinderjit Singh12403 GD(P)AOCBidar | |
04 Jan 00 - 03 Dec 01Air CommodorePradeep Vasant Naik12005 GD(P)AOCBidar | 03 Dec 01 - 09 Jan 03Air CommodoreRandhir Pratap13146 F(P)AOCBidar | 09 Jan 03 - 01 Feb 05Air CommodoreAjit Singh13147 F(P)AOCBidar | 01 Feb 05 - 01 May 07Air CommodoreJatinder Singh Dhillon13764 F(P)AOCBidar | 01 May 07 - 01 Jun 09Air CommodoreRamesh Rai14669 F(P)AOCBidar | |
01 Jun 09 - 30 Dec 10Air CommodoreRajeev Hora17141 F(P)AOCBidar | 30 Dec 10 - 16 Jun 13Air CommodoreSujeet Pushpakar Dharkar17841 F(P)AOCBidar | 17 Jun 13 - 20 Dec 15Air CommodoreManish Khanna18554 F(P)AOCBidar | 21 Dec 15 - 02 Jan 18Air CommodoreKirti Khajuria19538 F(P)AOCBidar | 03 Jan 18 - 05 May 19Air CommodoreAshutosh Dixit18558 F(P)AOCBidar | |