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Chief Instructor (Flying) Appointments at Air Force Academy


12 Dec 70 - 07 Nov 73
Group Captain
Denis Anthony Lafontaine
3844 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

12 Dec 73 - 20 Jul 75
Group Captain
Terence Joseph Desa
3863 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

21 Jul 75 - 29 Dec 76
Group Captain
Prakash Dev Dogra
4250 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

30 Dec 76 - 25 Mar 79
Group Captain
Bernard Anthony Coelho
4488 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

12 Apr 79 - 20 Oct 80
Group Captain
Tehmurasp Ratanshaw Patel
5192 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

21 Oct 80 - 13 Sep 82
Group Captain
Krishen Kumar Bakshi
5012 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

29 Sep 82 - 14 Dec 84
Wing Commander
Chandrakant Nijanand Bal
7401 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

15 Dec 84 - 17 Nov 85
Group Captain
Manjit Singh Sekhon
6756 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

18 Nov 85 - 03 Mar 87
Group Captain
Vinod Kumar Malhotra
7395 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

16 Mar 87 - 10 Oct 89
Group Captain
Praveen Badhwar
7658 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

26 Dec 89 - 30 Apr 93
Group Captain
Jaspal Singh Gujral
11300 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

01 May 93 - 30 Jun 95
Group Captain
Gurcharan Singh Bhogal
12504 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

01 Jul 95 - 06 Sep 96
Group Captain
Ranjit Singh Tathgur
11877 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

16 Sep 96 - 21 Dec 97
Group Captain
Kanwar Dalinderjit Singh
12403 GD(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

22 Dec 97 - 14 Apr 98
Group Captain
Thypparampil Joseph Joseph
14293 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

13 Apr 98 - 31 May 00
Group Captain
Atul Saikia
13585 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

01 Jun 00 - 14 Jul 02
Group Captain
Davender Singh Jain
15016 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

15 Jul 02 - 09 Jun 04
Group Captain
Avtar Singh
15706 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

01 Jul 04 - 19 Nov 06
Group Captain
Chetan Bali
15708 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

20 Nov 06 - 03 Feb 08
Group Captain
Gurcharan Singh Bedi
17448 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

11 Feb 08 - 06 Apr 08
Wing Commander
Ravi Gopal Krishana Kapoor
18253 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

07 Apr 08 - 27 Jun 09
Group Captain
Ravi Gopal Krishana Kapoor
18253 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

19 Sep 11 - 01 Jul 12
Air Commodore
Mohan Kumar Rao
17343 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

09 Jul 12 - 31 Mar 13
Group Captain
Nagesh Kapoor
18557 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

01 Apr 13 - 31 Dec 14
Air Commodore
Nagesh Kapoor
18557 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

01 Jan 15 - 17 Jul 16
Air Commodore
Seethepalli Shrinivas
18787 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

18 Jul 16 - 09 Jul 17
Air Commodore
Sanjay Khanna
19870 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

24 Jul 17 - 08 Jan 18
Air Commodore
Pudiapura Jawahar Mohamed
20445 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal

Unknown - 31 Aug 21
Air Commodore
Lalit Kumar Chawla
19871 F(P)
CI (Flying)
Dundigal
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