5 Base Repair Depot Date Raised : 1966-04-01 Location : Sulur Sulur was a transit base during 1940-42 for the Allied forces. In 1945 it was a operational base for RAF and in 1947 INS Hansa was established by Indian navy for Sea hawks. IAF took possession of Sulur base in Nov 56 and established a Care and Maintenance Units . Within a year i.e. 1957, it was re-designated as Aircraft Storage Depot. The initial commitment of Aircraft Storage Depot was to store Harvards, Texans and Vampires. Subsequently Dakotas, and Canberras also found shelter at this Depot. During this period i.e. in 1964, one large hanger and billets for SNCOs and airmen were added. In Apr 66, this storage depot metamorphasized into the present 5 BRD with additional tasks and commitments. 33 ED was also established at the base in 1967. Apart from the already existing storage functions, the depot undertook the task of repairing and overhauling of Gnats and its rotables. Currently the BRD conduct servicing of Avro ac, repair and calibration of testers and MATCAL (Mobile Calibration). In 2017 it was given the task of overhaul, LRU, Aero engine and structural repairs of modern trainer aircraft
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Apr 66 to 21 Apr 67 | Wing Commander Kenneth Hubert Larkins | 3511 GD(P) | CO | Sulur | |
22 Apr 67 to 01 Mar 68 | Wing Commander Naduvil Kouvilakath Ramavarma | 3578 GD(P) | CO | Sulur | |
18 Jun 68 to 13 Feb 69 | Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath | 3946 GD(P) | CO | Sulur | |
14 Feb 69 to 11 Jul 70 | Wing Commander Jagdish Chandra Sengupta | 3657 GD(P) | CO | Sulur | |
25 Jul 70 to 04 Feb 73 | Wing Commander Subhash Chander Virmani | 4097 GD(P) | CO | Sulur | |
05 Feb 73 to 18 Jul 75 | Group Captain Willie Raj | 3496 ENG | CO | Sulur | |
19 Jul 75 to 27 Jun 76 | Group Captain Kulwant Rai | 3770 ENG | CO | Sulur | |
28 Jun 76 to 23 Dec 79 | Group Captain Dinesh Chandra Chatterjee | 4274 ARMT | CO | Sulur | |
24 Dec 79 to 05 Oct 80 | Group Captain Surendra Nath Tyagi | 4517 ENG | CO | Sulur | |
03 Nov 80 to 27 Jul 81 | Group Captain Prabhakar Mukundrao Achalkar | 5403 ENG | CO | Sulur | |
28 Jul 81 to 20 Aug 82 | Group Captain Shashikumar Samuel Ramdas | 4930 ENG | CO | Sulur | |
21 Aug 82 to 14 Jan 85 | Group Captain Kunnathidathil Sanjeevan | 5615 ENG | CO | Sulur | |
14 Jan 85 to 28 Jun 88 | Air Commodore Kailash Chander Kapoor | 5409 ELECT | AOC | Sulur | |
21 Jul 88 to 03 Aug 90 | Air Commodore Kuldip Raj Lamba | 6242 ENG | AOC | Sulur | |
03 Aug 90 to 30 Nov 92 | Air Commodore Jagatjit Singh Ahluwalia | 6282 ARMT | AOC | Sulur | |
01 Dec 92 to 25 Nov 94 | Air Commodore Arun Kumar Saraswat | 6563 ENG | AOC | Sulur | |
25 Nov 94 to 29 Jun 97 | Air Commodore Satinder Singh Dhillon | 7980 ENG | AOC | Sulur | |
29 Jun 97 to 12 Sep 99 | Air Commodore Raj Gopal | 10797 SIGS | AOC | Sulur | |
13 Sep 99 to 11 Jun 02 | Air Commodore Subhanka Sekhar Lahiri | 11568 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
12 Jun 02 to 06 Mar 05 | Air Commodore Keshava Murthy Rama Sundara | 12833 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
07 Mar 05 to 25 Mar 07 | Air Commodore Chinnabhandar Narasingara Ranganath | 13471 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
26 Mar 07 to 06 Jun 09 | Air Commodore Prakash Kumar Srivastava | 14160 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
06 Jun 09 to 31 Dec 10 | Air Commodore Vireshwar Dundappa Galagali | 15272 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
01 Jan 11 to 30 Jun 12 | Air Commodore Sant Parshad Yadav | 15840 AE(M) | AOC | Sulur | |
01 Jul 12 to 31 Dec 13 | Air Commodore Shashiker Choudhary | 17645 AE(M) | AOC | Sulur | |
01 Jan 14 to 30 Sep 15 | Air Commodore Malipeddi Surender Reddy | 17297 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
01 Oct 15 to 14 Dec 17 | Air Commodore Gunmedi Sahed Phani Nandiswara Chowdary | 18521 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
15 Dec 17 to 30 Sep 18 | Air Commodore Vijay Kumar Garg | 18493 AE(M) | AOC | Sulur | |
01 Oct 18 to 30 Jun 20 | Air Commodore Atul Garg | 19653 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
01 Jul 20 to 29 Dec 21 | Air Commodore Padippurackal Thekkethil Krishnapillai Sreekumar | 19722 AE(L) | AOC | Sulur | |
30 Dec 21 to 10 May 23 | Air Commodore Kondengalara Aboo Ahamed Sanjeeb | 20227 AE(M) | AOC | Sulur |