AFS Hakimpet Date Raised : 1983-10-01 Location : Hakimpet Hakimpet was first revived as a training airfield in the Autumn of 1951 with the establishment of the Conversion Training Units (CTU). The CTU operated Spitfire T Mk IX s , Spitfire XVIIIs and Tempest IIs to impart fighter conversion training to newly commissioned pilots of the IAF (Starting with the 55th Pilots Course (PC)). CTU was re-designated as Jet Training Wing (JTW) in 1958 with the phasing out of all Piston engine fighters in the IAF. A second JTW was set up in Bidar after the Indo-China border conflict and both JTWs at Hakimpet and Bidar were redesignated as No.1 JTW and No.2 JTW respectively. But by 1968, Jet training was again bought under the sole purview of Hakimpet and both JTWs were merged together to form the 'Fighter Training Wing' (FTW). In 1983, FTW Hakimpet was redesignated as a full fledged station and renamed Air Force Station Hakimpet (AFS Hakimpet) to be commanded by an Air Commodore. Its lodger Unitss include 44 R&SU, HTS, 43 ED, TETTRA School and 250 SU
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01 Oct 83 - 16 Dec 84Group CaptainSherwin Derek Leslie Tully5270 GD(P)Stn CdrHakimpet | 17 Dec 84 - 09 Feb 86Air CommodoreSherwin Derek Leslie Tully5270 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 10 Feb 86 - 14 Feb 88Air CommodoreVincent Pais5274 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 15 Feb 88 - 01 Jul 90Air CommodoreRanjit Kumar Malhotra6513 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 02 Jul 90 - 01 Jan 92Air CommodorePrakash Sadashivrao Pingale6755 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | |
10 Feb 92 - 02 Jan 94Air CommodoreAditya Vikram Pethia8384 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 03 Jan 94 - 01 Jan 95Air CommodoreSivaramakrishnan Kalyanaraman7704 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 02 Jan 95 - 04 Jan 97Air CommodoreJaswant Singh8755 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 05 Jan 97 - 29 Feb 00Air CommodoreSatinder Lal Sud11317 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 01 Mar 00 - 18 Aug 01Air CommodoreMohan Dikshit11309 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | |
03 Dec 01 - 30 Jun 02Air CommodoreVinod Kumar Verma11638 GD(P)AOCHakimpet | 01 Jul 02 - 01 Jan 04Air CommodoreKarunakaran Gopa Kumar13391 F(P)AOCHakimpet | 02 Jan 04 - 21 Jun 05Air CommodoreRakesh Kacker12951 F(P)AOCHakimpet | 21 Jun 05 - 01 Apr 07Air CommodorePrakash Babulal Patel14555 F(P)AOCHakimpet | 02 Apr 07 - 30 Apr 09Air CommodoreNaseem Akhtar14279 F(P)AOCHakimpet | |
01 May 09 - 13 Jun 10Air CommodoreParamjit Singh Mann15570 F(P)AOCHakimpet | 28 Jun 10 - 01 May 11Air CommodoreSanjay Nimesh17862 F(P)AOCHakimpet | 02 May 11 - 23 Jun 13Air CommodoreDinesh Kumar Awasthi18079 F(P)AOCHakimpet | 24 Jun 13 - 22 Dec 15Air CommodoreSanjeev Raj18276 F(P)AOCHakimpet | 23 Dec 15 - 07 Jul 17Air CommodoreHardeep Bains19180 F(P)AOCHakimpet | |
| 06 May 19 - 23 Aug 20Air CommodoreKariat Vadukkoote Surendran Nair19528 F(P)AOCHakimpet |