51 Air Stores Park


Date Raised : 1966-05-01 Location : Digaru
Air Force Station Digaru is situated at a distance of 35 km South-East of Guwahati on NH-37 amidst the plains of the Brahmaputra Valley. In the wake of the Chinese aggression in 1962, a 'Forward supply Depot' (SD), an 'Explosive storage Park' (XSP) and a 'Mechanical Transport Repair & storage Units' (MIR & U) were established at Digaru during the period 1963-66. It became a full-fledged station in August 1969. This base Played a very vital supporting role in the 1971 operations. Air Force school was established out of the war Booty Fund in May 1982. An explosives Museum was established in 1986. in 1966 FSD was renamed as 51ASP and XSP as 52ASP. 51 and 52 ASP merged in 1977 and 52 ASP ceased to exist
Unit previously existed as FSD

Commanding Officers


05 Feb 64 - 11 Dec 64
Wing Commander
Palamadai Subbir Sankara Narayanan
2668 EQPT
CO
Digaru

15 Apr 65 - 22 Jul 65
Wing Commander
Sailesh Chandra Malakar
3536 EQPT
CO
Digaru

01 Aug 65 - 04 Jun 67
Wing Commander
Sunil Kumar Basack
3502 EQPT
CO
Digaru

05 Jun 67 - 05 May 68
Wing Commander
Madhakar Krishnarao Shirpurkar
3764 EQPT
CO
Digaru

06 May 68 - 02 Jul 70
Wing Commander
Nitai Lal Pramanik
2793 A&SD
CO
Digaru

01 Aug 70 - 30 Jun 72
Wing Commander
Shanker Govind Chitnis
3763 EQPT
CO
Digaru

01 Aug 72 - 08 Dec 73
Wing Commander
Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal
3762 EQPT
CO
Digaru

29 Jan 74 - 25 Jul 76
Wing Commander
Kailash Shanker
4189 EQPT
CO
Digaru

26 Jul 76 - 27 Aug 79
Wing Commander
Raminder Singh
4457 EQPT
CO
Digaru

28 Dec 79 - 29 Nov 81
Wing Commander
Chittaranjan
5899 EQPT
CO
Digaru

30 Nov 81 - 19 Jan 84
Wing Commander
Vinod Singh Rawat
6043 EQPT
CO
Digaru

20 Jan 84 - 17 Oct 85
Group Captain
Kilara Vamanet Iya
5813 EQPT
CO
Digaru

18 Oct 85 - 05 May 88
Group Captain
Rameshwar Dayal Vinayak
5897 EQPT
CO
Digaru

06 May 88 - 09 Sep 90
Group Captain
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CO
Digaru

10 Sep 90 - 31 Oct 93
Group Captain
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CO
Digaru

11 Apr 94 - 17 Mar 96
Group Captain
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CO
Digaru

18 Mar 96 - 11 Oct 98
Group Captain
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CO
Digaru

12 Oct 98 - 18 Jun 00
Group Captain
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CO
Digaru

19 Jun 00 - 09 Feb 03
Group Captain
Arabida Mohanty
13414 LGS
CO
Digaru

10 Feb 03 - 13 Jul 05
Group Captain
Ved Mitra Upadhyay
14055 LGS
CO
Digaru

14 Jul 05 - 30 Sep 06
Group Captain
Paramasivan Murthy
13679 LGS
CO
Digaru

01 Oct 06 - 30 Jun 07
Group Captain
Kunnapully Mohamed Gaffar
15000 F(N)
CO
Digaru

01 Jul 07 - 10 May 09
Group Captain
Ashok Vardhan
14973 LGS
CO
Digaru

11 May 09 - 12 Jun 11
Group Captain
Sanjay Aneja
17234 LGS
CO
Digaru

13 Jun 11 - 05 May 13
Group Captain
Jagdish Kumar Raval
18175 LGS
CO
Digaru

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