Air Defence Flight Date Raised : 1980-03-15 Location : Gorakhpur C&R Flight was rasied with the role primary role of Practice Interception training to Fighter Controllers of the C&R School, later renamed as Air Defence College. The flight also got renamed to Air Defence Flight at that time. Initially it was equipt with Vampire 52 and co-located with the school at AFFC, Jodhpur. Sometime in mid 1970s it moved to BKT and in 1975 it was reequipped with the Marut and located at Kanpur. It moved to BKT in 1980. Thereafter in 1983 it was requipped with the the MiG-21 T-77. Tt moved to Bareilly in 1992, changed to T-96 in 1996 and merged with the 102 Sqn in 1998. Flight moved back to BKT on 15 June 1999. It was numberplated on 30 June 2006. The Unit has been resurrected on the Kiran MK-II at Gorakhpur in Sep 2015
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15 Mar 80 - 31 Jul 81Squadron LeaderIndarjit Dass9059 GD(P)COBakshi-Ka-Talab | 08 Aug 81 - 17 Jun 83Wing CommanderAditya Vikram Pethia8384 GD(P)COBakshi-Ka-Talab | | 14 Jun 84 - 28 Dec 84Wing CommanderChandrashekhar Ramachandra Dantale8944 GD(P)COBakshi-Ka-Talab | 29 Dec 84 - 06 Jul 86Wing CommanderArun Kumar Singh9521 GD(P)COBakshi-Ka-Talab | |
07 Jul 86 - 03 Jul 88Wing CommanderOm Prakash Sharma10869 GD(P)COBakshi-Ka-Talab | 04 Jul 88 - 03 Apr 91Wing CommanderMaheshwarsingh Thakursingh Baran10868 GD(P)COBakshi-Ka-Talab | 04 Apr 91 - 31 Dec 92Wing CommanderAbhay Gupta13241 F(P)COBakshi-Ka-Talab/ Bar | 01 Jan 93 - Wing CommanderNirbhay Kumar Jain13576 F(P)COBareilly | | |
01 Jan 96 - 31 May 97Wing CommanderSubramanyam Sukumar14672 F(P)COBareilly |