41 Wing Date Raised : 1984-01-12 Location : Jaisalmer The imperatives of 1965 war influenced the country to fill the void in the defences in Rajasthan sector and thus came the airfield at Jaisalmer in 1970. Started as No. 14 Care and Maintenance Units. After the 1971 war it was decided to upgrade the airfield and 4 FBSU came into existence on 7 Aug 1972 which was placed under the functional control of 32 Wing, Jodhpur. Initial role was to provide staging facilities to fighter and bomber aircraft. Subsequently in 1979, Armament Training Camp was setup to exploit the Pokhran range in the vicinity. The station was designated to function as provision for flying facilities by day and night for visiting detachments for Air to Ground firing at the Range. 3 AFRU was setup in 1982. The base was reassigned later as 41 Wing Air Force on 12 Jan 1984.
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01 Mar 84 - 13 Oct 85Group CaptainVishnu Narain Johri5676 GD(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | | 04 Jan 87 - 03 Jan 90Group CaptainPradip Kantilal Gandhi8142 GD(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 04 Jan 90 - 22 Dec 91Group CaptainBalakrishna Menon11307 GD(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 23 Dec 91 - 16 Dec 93Group CaptainNarendra Minocha9513 GD(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | |
17 Dec 93 - 19 Sep 95Group CaptainAshok Kumar Brahmawar10889 GD(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 20 Sep 95 - 21 Dec 97Group CaptainSaravjit Singh Hothi12215 GD(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 12 Jan 98 - 31 Jan 00Group CaptainKeshav Gopal Bewoor13570 F(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 01 Feb 00 - 18 Nov 01Group CaptainRakesh Kumar Jolly14083 F(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 19 Nov 01 - 31 Jul 03Group CaptainJasvinder Chauhan14079 F(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | |
01 Aug 03 - 20 Apr 05Group CaptainSandip Sud15685 F(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 21 Apr 05 - 31 Oct 06Group CaptainAnil Khosla15871 F(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | 01 Nov 06 - 20 Apr 08Group CaptainMohan Kumar Rao17343 F(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | | 03 May 10 - 10 Apr 11Group CaptainRajiva Ranjan18810 F(P)Stn CdrJaisalmer | |
11 Apr 11 - 14 May 13Air CommodoreSudhanshu Rath15726 F(P)AOCJaisalmer | 15 May 13 - 31 Aug 15Air CommodoreChandramouli16984 F(P)AOCJaisalmer | 01 Sep 15 - 25 Dec 17Air CommodoreDebashish Vedajna19539 F(P)AOCJaisalmer | | | |