AFS Yelahanka Motto : Balamcha Budhischa Date Raised : 1984-12-17 Location : Yelahanka Among the first units to be formed at Yelahanka, then RAF station was No. 225 Group Communication Flight in 1942. Initially formed as a conversion and training squadron at Agra in 1948, the Units moved over to Begumpet in 1957 and was renamed as Transport Training Wing (TTW). In 1963 after the Sino -Indian conflict, the necessity for expanding training on transport aircraft became imperative. To facilitate this requirement; existing TTW was retained at Begumpet and No.2 TTW was established at Yelahanka, a suburb of Bangalore. Here, an airfield of world war II vintage was already in existence. This deserted airfield was recommissioned after necessary repairs on August I, 1963 and began functioning under the command of Gp Capt PL Dhawan. On January 1, 1968 both the TTW s were merged to form a single TTW at Yelahanka. Later, TTWs was renamed as Air Force Station, Yelahanka. Initial conversion courses were conducted on Dakota MkIII and MkIV. From Jan 1975 the HS-748 replaced the Dakota and the Course was renamed as Transport Conversion Course (TCC). An-32 was inducted in 1986 and Do-228 in 1996.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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17 Dec 84 to 08 Feb 86 | Air Commodore Poovala Govindarajulu Srivatsalu | 5383 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
07 Feb 86 to 23 Dec 87 | Air Commodore Puthettu Kurien Mani | 5666 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
24 Dec 87 to 24 Dec 91 | Air Commodore Jagbir Singh Rai | 6507 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
30 Dec 91 to 24 Dec 92 | Air Commodore Bandi Kesava Rao Sunder | 8201 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
24 Dec 92 to 17 Sep 95 | Air Commodore Pandarangi Ananta Ramakrishna Kumar | 8747 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
18 Sep 95 to 31 Mar 97 | Air Commodore Mohinderjit Singh Singha | 9711 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
12 May 97 to 30 Jun 99 | Air Commodore Basudev Banerjee | 11654 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
01 Jul 99 to 13 Jul 01 | Air Commodore Pradeep Kumar | 12029 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
14 Jul 01 to 13 Oct 03 | Air Commodore Dhiraj Kukreja | 13130 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
14 Oct 03 to 30 Jun 05 | Air Commodore Satish Pal Singh | 13770 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
01 Jul 05 to 21 Mar 07 | Air Commodore Gurwinder Jeet Singh Cheema | 14292 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
22 Mar 07 to 30 Apr 09 | Air Commodore Ravi Dhar | 14559 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
01 May 09 to 19 Jun 11 | Air Commodore Vidhya Sagar Bharti | 16611 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
20 Jun 11 to 23 Sep 12 | Air Commodore Birender Singh Yadav | 17166 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
24 Sep 12 to 20 Jul 14 | Air Commodore Surendra Pal Singh | 18260 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
11 Jul 16 to 05 Aug 18 | Air Commodore Tejbir Singh | 19958 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
06 Aug 18 to 15 Dec 19 | Air Commodore Ravuri Sheetal | 20490 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
16 Dec 19 to 31 Aug 21 | Air Commodore Shailender Sood | 19181 F(P) | AOC | Bengaluru |