Aircrew Examination Board Date Raised : 1956-04-01 Location : Hindon The Aircrew Training and Testing Team was raised under Director of Operations in early 1950s. The team was also called Catboard briefly before being setup as AEB in 1956. The Board is setup as flights - A to inspect Transport, B to inspect Fighters, C to inspect Fling Training Estalishments and D to inspect Helicopters. D Flight came up in 1969. in 1985 AEB also started to training instrument rating instructors and examiners (IRIE) for Fighters. In 1996/97 IRIE for Helicopters and Command examiner course for Transport were also added.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
01 Apr 56 - 01 Oct 56Wing CommanderEzra D'Sylva Masillamani1774 GD(P)COPalam | 01 Oct 56 - 09 Jun 59Wing CommanderNarayanrao Khanderao Shitoley1841 GD(O)COPalam | 10 Jun 59 - 01 Feb 62Wing CommanderDavid Eugene Bouche2774 GD(P)COPalam | 01 Feb 62 - 01 Aug 64Wing CommanderToric Zachariah3026 GD(P)COPalam | 01 Aug 64 - 01 Nov 65Wing CommanderIssac Ezekiel Awaskar3602 GD(P)COPalam | |
01 Dec 65 - 01 May 68Wing CommanderArjan Dev Ralli4027 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Jun 68 - 01 Jul 70Wing CommanderSurendra Sahney3860 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Aug 70 - 01 Oct 73Wing CommanderJagdish Kumar Seth4403 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Oct 73 - 01 Oct 75Wing CommanderBhupendra Kumar Bishnoi4594 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Nov 75 - 01 Jun 77Wing CommanderBharat Balkrishna Bhadkamkar4980 GD(P)COHindon | |
01 Jun 77 - 01 Jan 81Group CaptainMangatil Karakad Chandrasekhar4720 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Jan 81 - 01 Jan 84Group CaptainPoovala Govindarajulu Srivatsalu5383 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Jan 84 - 01 Jan 86Group CaptainPuthettu Kurien Mani5666 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Jan 86 - 01 Jan 89Group CaptainSatish Govind Inamdar7189 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Mar 89 - 01 Jun 89Group CaptainSunil Kumar Malik9002 GD(P)COHindon | |
01 Jul 89 - 01 Dec 91Group CaptainJagjit Singh Ghuman10123 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Dec 91 - 01 Nov 94Group CaptainDruba Jyoti Sarma9822 GD(P)COHindon | 01 Dec 94 - 01 Dec 97Group CaptainSurendran Damodaran13133 F(P)COHindon | 01 Dec 97 - 01 May 00Group CaptainArun Kumar Singwall13578 F(P)COHindon | 01 May 00 - 01 Jul 02Group CaptainHitesh Hari Bhai Patel14271 F(P)COHindon | |
01 Jul 02 - 01 Jul 05Group CaptainNasib Singh Kadian15025 F(P)COHindon | 01 Aug 05 - 01 Jun 07Group CaptainAvtar Singh15706 F(P)COHindon | 01 Jun 07 - 01 Dec 07Group CaptainUmesh Rakhra18071 F(P)COHindon | 01 Jun 08 - 01 Jun 10Group CaptainManish Khanna18554 F(P)COHindon | 01 Jun 10 - 01 Jun 12Group CaptainDhananjay Vasant Khot19516 F(P)COHindon | |
01 Jun 12 - 01 Jun 14Group CaptainPudiapura Jawahar Mohamed20445 F(P)COHindon |