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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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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Unknown to 01 Dec 67 | Wing Commander Sunil Kumar Basack | 3502 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
Unknown to | Group Captain Kilara Vamanet Iya | 5813 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
10 Sep 00 to | Group Captain Arabida Mohanty | 13414 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
25 Sep 03 to | Group Captain Ved Mitra Upadhyay | 14055 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
14 Jul 05 to 30 Sep 06 | Group Captain Paramasivan Murthy | 13679 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
01 Oct 06 to 30 Jun 07 | Group Captain Kunnapully Mohamed Gaffar | 15000 F(N) | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
01 Jul 07 to 10 May 09 | Group Captain Ashok Vardhan | 14973 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
11 May 09 to 12 Jun 11 | Group Captain Sanjay Aneja | 17234 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru | |
13 Jun 11 to 05 May 13 | Group Captain Jagdish Kumar Raval | 18175 LGS | Stn Cdr | Digaru |