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45 Wing Date Raised : 1989-04-17 Location : Sirsa Air Force Station Sirsa was established in 1960. Situated on the banks of river Ghaggar, the Station was first designated as 10 C&MU (Care & Maintenance Units) under the command of Flt Lt Patrick, a logistics officer. The first aircraft to land at the airfield was a Dakota' on a runway made of PSP sheets. The concrete runway, PTT and the loops were constructed in 1963.0n 12 Jan 70, the station was redesignated as 5 MEMU (Mobile Echelon Maintenance Units). Two years later in Aug 72, the base was made a Forward Base Support Units and rechristened as 2 Forward Base Supporting Units (FBSU). The FBSU was upgraded in to a full fledged Wing in Apr 89.
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Unit previously existed as 2 FBSU
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 17 Apr 89 to 23 Jun 89 | Group Captain Tej Mohan Asthana | 7672 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 10 Jul 89 to 22 Dec 91 | Group Captain Dhanwant Singh Guram | 10916 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 23 Dec 91 to 02 May 94 | Group Captain Har Prakash Singh Sidhu | 11051 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 03 May 94 to 17 Dec 95 | Group Captain Padamjit Singh Ahluwalia | 11631 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 18 Dec 95 to 22 Mar 98 | Group Captain Vivek Kumar Chopra | 12752 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 23 Mar 98 to 23 Apr 00 | Group Captain Shyamlal Ghosh | 13625 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa | |
| 24 Apr 00 to 27 May 01 | Group Captain Arun Vasudeo Thakur Desai | 13372 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 28 May 01 to 20 Mar 02 | Group Captain Simhakutty Varthaman | 13606 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 21 Mar 02 to 07 May 04 | Group Captain Thinide Kumar Nair | 14680 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 08 May 04 to 01 Jan 06 | Group Captain Vinod Kumar Chopra | 14563 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 02 Jan 06 to 03 Feb 08 | Group Captain Ashit Ishwarlal Mehta | 16377 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 04 Feb 08 to 20 Dec 09 | Group Captain Gurcharan Singh Bedi | 17448 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 21 Dec 09 to 03 Jul 11 | Group Captain Anil Sabharwal | 18553 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Sirsa |  |
| 04 Jul 11 to 03 Jan 13 | Air Commodore Savinder Pal Singh | 18116 F(P) | AOC | Sirsa |  |
| 04 Jan 13 to 28 Dec 14 | Air Commodore Makarand Ranade | 18586 F(P) | AOC | Sirsa |  |
| 29 Dec 14 to 10 Apr 17 | Air Commodore Ashish Vohra | 18801 F(P) | AOC | Sirsa |  |
| 12 Jun 17 to 24 Dec 18 | Air Commodore Mehtab Singh Deswal | 20131 F(P) | AOC | Sirsa |  |
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