No.49 Squadron Paraspears

Motto : Dhairya Vijayate (Bold will be victorious)
Date Raised : 1960-02-02 Location : Jorhat
The sqn was formed in Barrackpore and moved to Jorhat in May 1962.

Aircraft Types operated over the years:

Commanding Officers

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DatesRank & NameNumberRemarksLocationPhoto
02 Feb 60 to Squadron Leader Parshotamlal Pandhi1997 GD(P)COBarrackpore
Unknown to Wing Commander Om Prakash Devgon4726 GD(P)CO
Unknown to 01 Dec 73Wing Commander Manish Kumar Rudra4358 GD(P)CO
Unknown to Wing Commander Jasmer Singh Dhanoa4428 GD(P)CO
29 Apr 76 to Wing Commander Venkatraman Shankar5197 GD(P)CO
Unknown to Wing Commander Jagbir Singh Rai6507 GD(P)CO
Unknown to Wing Commander Druba Jyoti Sarma9822 GD(P)CO
Unknown to Wing Commander Rohintoni Homi Deshmukh9074 GD(P)CO
29 Jun 92 to Group Captain Shyamal Kumar Banerjee10941 GD(P)CO
Unknown to Group Captain Ravinder Kumar Sharma16050 F(P)CO
Unknown to Group Captain R Dineshan18807 F(P)COJodhpur

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