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 Air Force Technical College Date Raised : 1956-07-06 Location : Jalahalli West Air Force Technical College was established on 4 July 1949, in collaboration with Air Service Ltd, Hamble, UK. The college was named Technical Training College and the entire staff of the college at that time comprised officers and technicians from the Royal Air Force. The sleepy hospital town of Jalahalli, mostly consisting of World War Il army barracks occupied by Italian prisoners-of-war, was transformed into "Technical Training College" The British staff were gradually replaced by Indian personnel during the early 50s. On I January 1957, the college was renamed Air Force Technical College. The role of the college is to train graduate engineers inducted into the IAF to enable them to maintain various aircraft and weapon system as also various support systems in operational readiness. The training also aims to develop the trainees into Air Warriors by instilling in them the qualities of military leadership and Service ethos.
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Unit previously existed as TTC
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 06 Jul 56 to 30 Jun 61 | Group Captain Mangho Jeramdas Kripalani | 2395 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Jul 61 to 31 Aug 65 | Group Captain Krishnamahari Narasimhan | 2278 RAD | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 25 Jan 66 to 13 Sep 66 | Group Captain Hari Doyal Mehra | 3077 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 14 Nov 66 to 13 Jan 70 | Group Captain Roland John Hermon | 3449 ARMT | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 28 Jan 70 to 01 Jan 72 | Group Captain Jehanbux Nanabhoy Jungalwalla | 2385 GD(P) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 02 Jan 72 to 12 Apr 76 | Group Captain Satya Sagar Sahgal | 3777 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 13 Apr 76 to 02 Jan 77 | Air Commodore Satya Sagar Sahgal | 3777 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 03 Jan 77 to 30 Jun 81 | Air Commodore Satinder Singh | 3784 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 01 Jul 81 to 04 Jan 83 | Air Commodore Shiva Krishna Varma | 4531 ARMT | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 05 Jan 83 to 30 Nov 83 | Air Commodore Sundaraier Venkataraman | 4546 SIGS | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 01 Dec 83 to 27 Mar 85 | Air Commodore Samir Roy | 4953 SIGS | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 28 Mar 85 to 03 Oct 86 | Air Commodore Chaman Lal Kotwal | 5431 SIGS | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 04 Oct 86 to 04 Aug 88 | Air Commodore Jagdish Prasad Dhir | 5956 ELECT | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 04 Aug 88 to 03 Jan 90 | Air Commodore Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan | 5935 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 04 Jan 90 to 21 Apr 91 | Air Commodore Pran Nath Bajaj | 6392 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 22 Apr 91 to 10 Feb 92 | Air Commodore Shanti Swaroop Gupta | 6805 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 17 Feb 92 to 31 Aug 94 | Air Commodore Kalayanaraman Badri Narayanan | 6826 ENG | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Sep 95 to 31 May 96 | Air Commodore Sundara Krishna Suresh Sitaram | 7910 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Jun 96 to 25 Nov 96 | Group Captain John Winston Rajkumar Chinnaiah | 11463 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 26 Nov 96 to 31 Dec 97 | Air Commodore Darshan Singh Gotra | 10685 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 01 Jan 98 to 03 Sep 00 | Air Commodore Sarjeewan Kumar Jindal | 10396 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 04 Sep 00 to 15 Jul 02 | Air Commodore Romesh Chander Kakar | 11481 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 15 Jul 02 to 31 Jul 04 | Air Commodore Shyam Lal Sharma | 12804 AE(M) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 09 Sep 04 to 30 Sep 06 | Air Commodore Kamal Singh | 13302 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Oct 06 to 30 Nov 08 | Air Commodore Rajiv Mittal | 14167 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Dec 08 to 16 Aug 09 | Air Commodore Packiriswamy Kanakaraj | 15066 AE(M) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 27 Aug 09 to 31 Jan 12 | Air Commodore Arun Kumar Paul | 15955 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Feb 12 to 01 Dec 13 | Air Commodore Alok Singh | 17622 AE(M) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Dec 13 to 09 Dec 14 | Air Commodore Mahender Kumar Guleria | 17130 AE(M) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 10 Dec 14 to 31 Mar 16 | Air Commodore Pramod Kumar Shrivastava | 17283 AE(M) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| 01 Apr 16 to 30 Apr 16 | Air Vice Marshal Pramod Kumar Shrivastava | 17283 AE(M) | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
| 01 May 16 to | Air Commodore Chakalayil Rajappa Mohan | 18517 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli |  |
| Unknown to | Air Commodore Biji Philip | 19029 AE(L) | Cmdt | Jalahalli | |
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