7 Wing Date Raised : 1954-08-01 Location : Ambala Camp Umbala was formed in 1919 and had the No. 99 RAF Sqn placed there. over the next two decades or so, various RAF squadrons were placed off and on at the base including No. 114 RAF Sqn, 28 Sqn and 60 Sqn. Between 1920 and 1922, RAF HQ was also at Ambala, after which it moved to Simla/ Delhi. On 1st Apr 1938, the Station HQ at Ambala was formed and it was formally renamed RAF Station, Ambala on 15 Feb 1941. During the most of 1940s Ambala operated as a training base for IAF/ RIAF with the SFTS and Technical Training Center there. At independence, the station was called Air Force Flying School (India) and was training pilots. On transfer of training to other bases, Ambala was made an operational base of the IAF on 2 Sep 1951 and renamed 307 Wing. On 31 july 1954, this was renamed to 7 Wing.
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01 Aug 54 - 07 Dec 56Group CaptainBirendra Kumar Sen Gupta1590 GD(O)COAmbala | 10 Dec 56 - 30 Jun 60Group CaptainSyed Abbas Hussain1706 GD(P)COAmbala | 01 Jul 60 - 21 Jul 62Group CaptainAnant Vemanrao Samsi1865 GD(P)COAmbala | 25 Jul 62 - 07 Jan 65Group CaptainCharandas Gurudas Devashar1867 GD(P)COAmbala | 08 Jan 65 - 04 Jan 67Group CaptainDavid Eugene Bouche2774 GD(P)COAmbala | |
05 Jan 67 - 31 Mar 68Group CaptainMaheshwar Das Khanna2776 GD(P)COAmbala | 01 Apr 68 - 14 Jan 69Air CommodoreMaheshwar Das Khanna2776 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 15 Jan 69 - 14 Aug 70Air CommodoreGeorge Kanishtkumar John2132 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 15 Aug 70 - 01 Aug 71Air CommodoreMadhav Bhawrao Naik1874 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 02 Aug 71 - 09 Jan 74Air CommodoreWalter Vernon Alexander Lloyd2623 GD(P)AOCAmbala | |
10 Jan 74 - 10 Feb 76Air CommodoreDilbagh Singh2998 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 11 Feb 76 - 21 Dec 77Air CommodoreSubramaniam Raghavendran3840 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 22 Dec 77 - 01 Apr 79Air CommodoreRobert Arnold Weir3881 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 02 Apr 79 - 17 Sep 82Air CommodoreMohinder Singh Bawa4494 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 18 Nov 82 - 02 Jan 85Air CommodoreBrijesh Dhar Jayal4972 GD(P)AOCAmbala | |
03 Jan 85 - 05 Jan 87Air CommodorePalamadai Muthuswamy Ramachandran4973 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 08 Jan 87 - 01 Jan 89Air CommodoreDinanath Ramchander Nadkarni5587 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 02 Jan 89 - 08 Mar 91Air CommodoreViney Kapila5596 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 11 Mar 91 - 16 Dec 92Air CommodoreJogendra Singh Sisodia7696 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 17 Dec 92 - 27 Feb 95Air CommodoreAnil Kumar Trikha8436 GD(P)AOCAmbala | |
14 Mar 95 - 28 May 96Air CommodoreMichael McMahon7399 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 24 Jun 96 - 04 Jan 98Air CommodoreAvdesh Kumar Singh11005 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 05 Jan 98 - 31 Aug 00Air CommodoreKaran Singh Chhina12389 GD(P)AOCAmbala | 01 Sep 00 - 20 Oct 02Air CommodoreVenkataraman Ramamurthy Iyer12939 F(P)AOCAmbala | 21 Oct 02 - 30 Sep 03Air CommodoreSatish Kumar Sofat12207 GD(P)AOCAmbala | |
01 Oct 03 - 01 Sep 05Air CommodoreLalit Kumar Malhotra13373 F(P)AOCAmbala | 02 Sep 05 - 24 Jun 07Air CommodoreHitesh Hari Bhai Patel14271 F(P)AOCAmbala | 25 Jun 07 - 31 Mar 09Air CommodoreRahul Dhar14561 F(P)AOCAmbala | 01 Apr 09 - 29 Nov 10Air CommodoreAnil Khosla15871 F(P)AOCAmbala | 30 Nov 10 - 13 Jun 12Air CommodorePrashant Nagaraja Kaushik16783 F(P)AOCAmbala | |
14 Jun 12 - 20 Aug 14Air CommodoreDilip Kumar Patnaik17464 F(P)AOCAmbala | 21 Aug 14 - 01 Jan 17Air CommodoreTejinder Singh18806 F(P)AOCAmbala | 02 Jan 17 - 01 Jan 19Air CommodoreLalit Kumar Chawla19871 F(P)AOCAmbala | |