8 Care and Maintenance Unit Date Raised : 1963-10-22 Disbanded : 2014-11-13 Location : Bakshi-ka-Talab 8 C&MU was established at 15 wing (Bareilly) on 22 Oct 63. The Unit moved to its present location i.e. Bakshi-Ka-Talab during 1966 under the administrative and functional control of Headquarters Central Air Command. Wg Cdr RK Kukkar was the first Commanding Officer of 8 C&MU and the 11 Sqn COs continued to be stn cdr's till 1974. Initially formed to provide basic facilities at short notice to aircraft as and when required to operate front the airfield. Laterally it was transformed to 38 Wing on 14 Nov 14. 11 Sqn moved in to the station in 1966. They used to operate ferry trips to Car-Nicobar. 21 Sqn moved into this station as 11 Sqn had moved out of this base in 1975. The Sqn was equipped with 'Gnat' aircraft. Air Defence Flight moved into this base in the year 1980. It was equipped with the marut aircraft. The Air Defence Flight was re-equipped with T-77 aircraft at this base in 1983. The AD Flight moved to Bareilly in Apr 92. 71 RMU moved into this base in 1992. The Units moved out to Allahabad in Oct 96. AD flight moved into this station on 15 Oct 99. The flight with its limited number of MiG-21 T-96 aircraft. 35 Sqn AF moved to this base on 05 jan 2006. 0. The AD flight went into the annals of history on its number plating on 30 June 06. Lodger units include 35 Sqn, 2232 Sqn, 952 Sqn and 358 TRU.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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10 Aug 66 to 04 Aug 69 | Wing Commander Ranjit Kumar Kukar | 4103 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
05 Aug 69 to 30 Jul 72 | Wing Commander Somendra Kumar Roy | 4032 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
11 Sep 72 to 17 Sep 74 | Wing Commander Swatantra Kumar Goel | 4684 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
18 Sep 74 to 19 Jun 75 | Wing Commander Chander Parkash Puri | 4917 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
20 Jun 75 to 23 Feb 76 | Wing Commander Satya Prakash | 4988 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
24 Feb 76 to 06 Dec 76 | Wing Commander Bidyut Mukhuty | 5196 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
07 Dec 76 to 11 Mar 77 | Squadron Leader Pattonath Madhavan Lokanathan | 7406 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
12 Mar 77 to 03 Aug 77 | Squadron Leader Jogendra Singh Sisodia | 7696 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
04 Aug 77 to 06 Jan 78 | Squadron Leader Hari Krishna Sharma | 8276 ENG | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
27 Jan 78 to 12 Jun 78 | Squadron Leader Ashok Vinayak Moghe | 4881 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
13 Jun 78 to 07 Aug 81 | Squadron Leader Manik Lal Banerji | 6331 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
08 Aug 81 to 17 Jun 83 | Wing Commander Aditya Vikram Pethia | 8384 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
18 Jun 83 to 13 Jun 84 | Wing Commander Seranjit Singh Bassley | 8440 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
14 Jun 84 to 28 Dec 84 | Wing Commander Chandrashekhar Ramachandra Dantale | 8944 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
29 Dec 84 to 06 Jul 86 | Wing Commander Arun Kumar Singh | 9521 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
07 Jul 86 to 03 Jul 88 | Wing Commander Om Prakash Sharma | 10869 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
04 Jul 88 to 03 Apr 91 | Wing Commander Maheshwarsingh Thakursingh Baran | 10868 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
04 Apr 91 to 23 Jun 91 | Wing Commander Abhay Gupta | 13241 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
24 Jun 91 to 26 Jun 92 | Group Captain Arun Vasant Sathaye | 9039 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
10 Aug 92 to 22 Aug 94 | Wing Commander Surnar Singh Grewal | 11334 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
18 Nov 94 to 31 Oct 96 | Wing Commander Satish Sharma | 11656 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
03 Feb 97 to 31 May 98 | Wing Commander Animesh Mukherji | 13593 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
01 Jun 98 to 16 Jul 00 | Wing Commander Charles James Weir | 14697 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
17 Jul 00 to 19 Jun 01 | Group Captain Charles James Weir | 14697 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
20 Aug 01 to 06 Jun 03 | Group Captain Nasir Loyd Khan | 15058 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
07 Jun 03 to 28 Mar 04 | Wing Commander Vellore Doraiswamy Eshwar | 16994 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
29 Mar 04 to 11 Jul 04 | Wing Commander Atanu Chatterjee | 18078 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
12 Jul 04 to 17 Sep 06 | Group Captain Amit Tiwari | 16806 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
19 Sep 06 to 19 Apr 07 | Group Captain Sreekumar Prabhakaran | 17318 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
28 May 07 to 20 Oct 08 | Group Captain Rajiv Kumar Mendiratta | 16799 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
03 Nov 08 to 30 May 10 | Group Captain Sanjeev Raj | 18276 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
31 May 10 to 22 Apr 12 | Group Captain Brij Mohan Tyagi | 18795 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
23 Apr 12 to 16 Jun 13 | Group Captain Ashish Vohra | 18801 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc | |
08 Feb 99 to 14 Nov 99 | Group Captain Anil Golani | 16986 F(P) | COO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab (Luc |