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
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| 15 Apr 65 - 22 Jul 65Wing CommanderSailesh Chandra Malakar3536 EQPTCODigaru | | | | |
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30 Nov 81 - 19 Jan 84Wing CommanderVinod Singh Rawat6043 EQPTCODigaru | 20 Jan 84 - 17 Oct 85Group CaptainKilara Vamanet Iya5813 EQPTCODigaru | 18 Oct 85 - 05 May 88Group CaptainRameshwar Dayal Vinayak5897 EQPTCODigaru | | | |
| | | 19 Jun 00 - 09 Feb 03Group CaptainArabida Mohanty13414 LGSCODigaru | 10 Feb 03 - 13 Jul 05Group CaptainVed Mitra Upadhyay14055 LGSCODigaru | |
14 Jul 05 - 30 Sep 06Group CaptainParamasivan Murthy13679 LGSCODigaru | | | 11 May 09 - 12 Jun 11Group CaptainSanjay Aneja17234 LGSCODigaru | 13 Jun 11 - 05 May 13Group CaptainJagdish Kumar Raval18175 LGSCODigaru | |