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No.66 Squadron


Date Raised : 1965-06-07 Location : Barrackpore
Raised as a SA-2 SAGW Unit at Rajokri from the assets of No. 15 training Sqn at Baroda and renamed as 66 Sqn. It was positioned at Dhansa till Sep 1977 but moved to Barrackpore in October 1977.

Commanding Officers


09 Jun 65 - 06 Apr 67
Wing Commander
Minoo Shipurjee Mehta
3592 GD(P)
CO
Dhansa (Delhi)

07 Apr 67 - 01 Mar 68
Wing Commander
M S Madan

CO
Dhansa (Delhi)

02 May 68 - 30 Dec 69
Wing Commander
Mahesh Chander Butalia
4221 GD(P)
CO
Dhansa (Delhi)

31 Dec 69 - 14 Aug 72
Wing Commander
Manohar Madhav Takle
4116 GD(N)
CO
Dhansa (Delhi)

15 Aug 72 - 02 Apr 74
Wing Commander
Sham Lal Bali
4326 GD(N)
CO
Dhansa (Delhi)

03 Apr 74 - 10 Oct 77
Wing Commander
Chander Parkash Grover
4763 GD(N)
CO
Dhansa (Delhi)

11 Oct 77 - 31 Mar 79
Wing Commander
Rama Prasad Mahanta
4862 GD(N)
CO
Raspunjh (Barrackpor

01 Apr 79 - 05 Jul 81
Wing Commander
Anil Kumar Ghosh
6525 GD(P)
CO
Raspunjh (Barrackpor

27 Jul 81 - 18 Jul 83
Wing Commander
Kamal Dev Bawa
6491 GD(N)
CO
Raspunjh (Barrackpor

18 Jul 83 -
Wing Commander
Ashok Misra
6328 GD(N)
CO
Raspunjh (Barrackpor

Unknown -
Wing Commander
Ram Autar Singh
8688 GD(P)
CO
Raspunjh (Barrackpor
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