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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
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 16 Nov 64 to 01 Jan 67 | Group Captain Surjit Singh Jaspal | 1808 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 02 Jan 67 to 29 Apr 71 | Group Captain Shanti Pada Dutta | 2000 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 14 Jun 71 to 19 Jun 72 | Group Captain Shamrao Ramrao Powar | 3100 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 31 Jul 72 to 25 Aug 74 | Group Captain Jagdish Singh Wohra | 3943 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) | |
| 26 Aug 74 to 31 May 76 | Group Captain Kishin Advani | 4003 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 01 Jun 76 to 20 Jun 77 | Group Captain Ramanathan Sundaresan | 4574 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 20 Jun 77 to 24 Aug 78 | Group Captain Mian Naranjan Singh | 4340 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 19 Oct 78 to 24 Aug 81 | Group Captain Krishna Chandra Misra | 4255 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) | |
| 24 Aug 81 to 12 Oct 83 | Group Captain Mohan Dharamdas Lalvani | 5658 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 13 Oct 83 to 19 Sep 86 | Group Captain Janak Pratap Singh | 5672 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 25 Sep 86 to 08 Oct 88 | Group Captain Gopalasamudram Mahadevan Vishwanathan | 9056 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 12 Oct 88 to 31 Jul 90 | Group Captain Vishwabandhu Mehta | 9024 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 01 Aug 90 to 19 Jul 92 | Group Captain Krishna Balakrishna Menon | 9028 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 20 Jul 92 to 30 Nov 94 | Group Captain Hemant Sharat Kumar Sardesai | 9463 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 01 Dec 94 to 31 Mar 97 | Group Captain Randhir Pratap | 13146 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 01 Apr 97 to 14 May 99 | Group Captain Ajay Kumar Dudeja | 13595 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) | |
| 29 May 99 to 31 Jul 00 | Group Captain Mukesh Bhandari | 13380 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 01 Aug 00 to 19 Apr 04 | Group Captain Ganpat Singh Rathore | 13611 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 19 Apr 04 to 15 Oct 06 | Group Captain Nalin Kumar Tandon | 16030 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 16 Oct 06 to 30 Jun 08 | Group Captain Rajeevan Thotten | 17168 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 07 Jul 08 to 04 Jan 09 | Group Captain Surat Singh | 18563 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 05 Jan 09 to 17 May 10 | Group Captain Sankaranarayana Chandrasekhar | 15717 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 17 May 10 to 22 May 11 | Group Captain Subramanian Sundar Rajan | 17848 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 23 May 11 to 05 May 13 | Group Captain Ajay Singh | 18096 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) | |
| 06 May 13 to 19 Apr 15 | Group Captain G Krishan Mohan | 20124 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
| 17 Mar 16 to 14 Jan 18 | Group Captain Malliyakel Joseph Augustine Vinoth | 21819 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Memaura (Lucknow) |  |
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