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9 Base Repair Depot Date Raised : 1966-04-01 Location : Pune The genesis of 9 BRD can be traced back to 1 May 1957 when a small unit christened as Base Signal Repair Unit (BSRU) was formed. The Depot was renamed as 9 Base Repair on 1 April 1966 Depot and has been traditionally repairing, overhauling Ground Electronic equipment and Navigational aids. It has evolved over the period of years by adapting to new Air Force requirements to arrive at current shape and size. The Depot now deals with Avionics Systems of SU-30MKI, Mirage- 2000, AN-32, Avro, MI-17 and PC-7 etc. The Depot is also tasked with the serial production of UMC of SU-30 MKI. This apart, the Depot is taking lead in indigenization of Avionics, pioneering the concept of Modular Open System Architecture. The Depot is also centre of excellence in Machine Learning and has initiated many an innovative project based on ML.Also identified maintenance of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) equipment.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| Unknown to 01 Dec 68 | Group Captain Lancelot Breen Joseph | 2763 A&SD | CO | Pune | |
| Unknown to | Group Captain Permanand Ramnany | 3453 SIGS | CO | Pune | |
| Unknown to 31 Mar 85 | Group Captain Subash Chander Madan | 5965 AE(L) | CO | Pune |  |
| 01 Apr 85 to 26 Jul 87 | Air Commodore Aswatha Narayana Rao Srinivasa Murthy | 5546 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 27 Jul 87 to 31 Oct 89 | Air Commodore Ulhas Atmaram Deshpande | 5959 AE(L) | AOC | Pune | |
| 19 Dec 89 to 07 Feb 91 | Air Commodore Bhagwan Singh Bedi | 5947 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 18 Feb 91 to 27 Oct 92 | Air Commodore Nanak Chand Kaushal | 6252 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 28 Oct 92 to 09 Jul 95 | Air Commodore Kuldip Singh Mehta | 7100 AE(L) | AOC | Pune | |
| 10 Jul 95 to 21 Mar 99 | Air Commodore Ranjeet Kumar Gupta | 8899 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 22 Mar 99 to 01 Sep 00 | Air Commodore Thiruvengadam Ramanujam | 10695 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 02 Sep 00 to 31 Jul 03 | Air Commodore Kuruvaikandy Chacliyath Jayaraman | 11730 AE(L) | AOC | Pune | |
| 01 Aug 03 to 23 Oct 05 | Air Commodore Anil Kumar Khosla | 13534 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 24 Oct 05 to 02 Oct 06 | Air Commodore Rajiv Sharma | 13299 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 03 Oct 06 to 30 Nov 08 | Air Commodore Vinod Kumar Narang | 14326 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 01 Dec 08 to 20 Feb 11 | Air Commodore Ramesh Chandran Balakrishnan | 15090 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 20 Feb 11 to 30 Sep 13 | Air Commodore Deepak Sood | 16306 AE(L) | AOC | Pune | |
| 30 Sep 13 to 30 Nov 15 | Air Commodore Sanjay Kumar | 17637 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 01 Dec 15 to 02 Jan 18 | Air Commodore Ajay Kumar Arora | 18539 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
| 03 Jan 18 to 15 Feb 19 | Air Commodore Shanmugasundaram Anandan | 18532 AE(L) | AOC | Pune |  |
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