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505 Signal Unit

Motto : Satatam Tatparah (Always Alert)
Date Raised : 1964-11-16 Location : Memaura (Lucknow)
505 SU was formed with the Star Sapphire radar in 1964. The Units acquired the THD-1955 and was redesignated as 65 SU on 21 Jan 1988 but reverted to 505 SU on 1 Sep 91

Commanding Officers


16 Nov 64 - 01 Jan 67
Group Captain
Surjit Singh Jaspal
1808 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

02 Jan 67 - 29 Apr 71
Group Captain
Shanti Pada Dutta
2000 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

14 Jun 71 - 19 Jun 72
Group Captain
Shamrao Ramrao Powar
3100 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

31 Jul 72 - 25 Aug 74
Group Captain
Jagdish Singh Wohra
3943 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

26 Aug 74 - 31 May 76
Group Captain
Kishin Advani
4003 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

01 Jun 76 - 20 Jun 77
Group Captain
Ramanathan Sundaresan
4574 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

20 Jun 77 - 24 Aug 78
Group Captain
Mian Naranjan Singh
4340 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

19 Oct 78 - 24 Aug 81
Group Captain
Krishna Chandra Misra
4255 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

24 Aug 81 - 12 Oct 83
Group Captain
Mohan Dharamdas Lalvani
5658 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

13 Oct 83 - 19 Sep 86
Group Captain
Janak Pratap Singh
5672 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

25 Sep 86 - 08 Oct 88
Group Captain
Gopalasamudram Mahadevan Vishwanathan
9056 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

12 Oct 88 - 31 Jul 90
Group Captain
Vishwabandhu Mehta
9024 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

01 Aug 90 - 19 Jul 92
Group Captain
Krishna Balakrishna Menon
9028 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

20 Jul 92 - 30 Nov 94
Group Captain
Hemant Sharat Kumar Sardesai
9463 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

01 Dec 94 - 31 Mar 97
Group Captain
Randhir Pratap
13146 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

01 Apr 97 - 14 May 99
Group Captain
Ajay Kumar Dudeja
13595 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

29 May 99 - 31 Jul 00
Group Captain
Mukesh Bhandari
13380 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

01 Aug 00 - 19 Apr 04
Group Captain
Ganpat Singh Rathore
13611 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

19 Apr 04 - 15 Oct 06
Group Captain
Nalin Kumar Tandon
16030 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

16 Oct 06 - 30 Jun 08
Group Captain
Rajeevan Thotten
17168 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

07 Jul 08 - 04 Jan 09
Group Captain
Surat Singh
18563 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

05 Jan 09 - 17 May 10
Group Captain
Sankaranarayana Chandrasekhar
15717 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

17 May 10 - 22 May 11
Group Captain
Subramanian Sundar Rajan
17848 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

23 May 11 - 05 May 13
Group Captain
Ajay Singh
18096 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

06 May 13 - 19 Apr 15
Group Captain
G Krishan Mohan
20124 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)

17 Mar 16 - 14 Jan 18
Group Captain
Malliyakel Joseph Augustine Vinoth
21819 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Memaura (Lucknow)
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