6 Wing Date Raised : 1951-08-16 Location : Barrackpore Air Force Station Barrackpore airfield was one of the foremost Allied air bases to fight the Japanese Forces during WW Il. In 1944, the Air Force Base at Barrackpore was formed into a group called 2 Indian Group. This group was disbanded in early 1950 to form the 357 MU. On March 16, 1950 it was renamed as 310 Station under the operational command of the IAF. On August 16, 1951, this Station was renamed as Air Force Station Barrackpore, 6 Wing. Betwee 1951 and 1966, the base was a hub for transport squadrons servcing the North East. In addition it also had a Survey Flighta Flighter squadron and an Auxilliary AF Sqn in this period. With closure of all flying activity, 6 Wing was transformed into a missile wing having in its fold numerous SA-II Squadrons from 1967 onwards.68,69,70 Sqn were fromed here in Feb 1966 and 38 Sqn in March 1966. The base also recieved TETTRA units in 1988-89 and upgraded briefly to SA-III Sqns in the same period. The base became a flying base again in 2012 with a Helicopter Squadron permanently based.
An Air Force Liaison Cell was set up in April 1959 to monitor overhaul of Dakota aircraft by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. The role of the Units was revised to include technical and logistics liaison for major servicing and repair of Caribou and subsequently the An-32 aircraft. The Unit also liaises with HAL for the overhaul of the Chetak and Cheetah Helicopter, and the HPT-32. An Airmen Selection Centre initially known as Air Force Recruiting Office has been in existence in this region since 1950. |
Commanding Officers | |||||
16 Aug 51 - 27 Jan 53Wing CommanderAnantha Ananthanarayanan1607 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 28 Jan 53 - 19 Jun 53Wing CommanderKartik Chandra Sarkar1589 GD(O)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 20 Jun 53 - 14 Oct 57Group CaptainYeshwant Vinayak Malse1616 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 15 Oct 57 - 19 Jan 61Group CaptainRanendu Sen1618 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 20 Jan 61 - 20 Jan 63Group CaptainChodagam Satyanarayana1610 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | |
21 Jan 63 - 02 Jan 65Group CaptainDamodar Madhao Oka1813 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 14 Jan 65 - 21 Nov 66Group CaptainShanil Kumar Mukerji1744 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | | 04 Jan 68 - 16 Jan 70Group CaptainMadhu Sudan Ray3469 GD(N)Stn CdrBarrackpore | | |
01 Mar 73 - 02 Sep 74Group CaptainSomendra Kumar Roy4032 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 04 Sep 74 - 31 Jan 76Group CaptainSubhas Ranjan Bose3152 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 15 Mar 76 - 19 Jun 78Group CaptainVenkataraman Srinivas Iyer4330 GD(N)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 20 Jun 78 - 31 Jan 81Group CaptainSubhash Chander Virmani4097 GD(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | | |
11 Jan 84 - 04 Jul 85Group CaptainShiv Nath Rathour5580 GD(N)Stn CdrBarrackpore | | | 14 Oct 86 - 11 Sep 87Group CaptainGovind Chandra Singh Rajwar8103 GD(N)Stn CdrBarrackpore | | |
| | | | 04 Sep 00 - 06 Jan 03Group CaptainVaidya Nathan Babu13386 F(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | |
08 Jan 03 - 29 Jun 04Group CaptainArun Purushottam Garud14692 F(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | | 01 Feb 06 - 25 Jun 08Group CaptainKalarikal Puttur Unnikrishnan Nair17023 F(N)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 02 Jul 08 - 20 Apr 10Group CaptainPankaj Vishnoi17347 F(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | 21 Apr 10 - 11 May 12Group CaptainMohan Gupta18562 F(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore | |
12 May 12 - 31 May 15Group CaptainAmitabh Raja Shendye19904 F(P)Stn CdrBarrackpore |