PSO: Maintenance, Air HQ

Date Raised : 1948-11-15

In Nov 1948, the role of AOA was split. AOA retained Personnel and Org Directorates and a new post of Air Officer Incharge Technical & Supply was created, incharge of the Directorates of Equipment & Technical. In Feb 1949, the role was renamed as Air Officer Incharge Technical & Equipment and remained so till May 1958 when it was redesignated to its present avatar of Air Officer in Charge Maintenance. The position has broadly retained its mandate and directorates since its formation.

Commanding Officers
28 Apr 20 - 08 Mar 21 Wing Commander Charles D Breese RAF Technical Staff Duties Delhi	15 Nov 48 - 31 Jan 49 Air Commodore Narendra 1556 GD(P) AOC (T&S) Delhi	01 Feb 49 - 06 Oct 51 Air Commodore Narendra 1556 GD(P) AOC (T&E) Delhi	07 Oct 51 - 16 Dec 52 Air Commodore Aspy Merwan Engineer 1554 GD(P) AOC (T&E) Delhi	17 Dec 52 - 08 Dec 55 Air Commodore Ravinder Hari Darshan Singh 1558 GD(P) AOC (T&E) Delhi
16 Jan 56 - 27 May 58 Air Commodore Surendra Nath Goyal 1560 GD(P) AOC (T&E) Delhi	28 May 58 - 05 Mar 62 Air Commodore Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi 1592 GD(O) AOM Delhi	06 Mar 62 - 01 Dec 62 Air Vice Marshal Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi 1592 GD(O) AOM Delhi	01 Jan 63 - 23 Nov 63 Air Vice Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal 1567 GD(O) AOM Delhi	01 Dec 64 - 17 Feb 67 Air Vice Marshal Hirendra Nath Chatterjee 1620 GD(P) AOM Delhi
18 Feb 67 - 01 Dec 67 Air Vice Marshal Om Prakash Mehra 1639 GD(P) AOM Delhi	01 Jan 68 - 06 Aug 69 Air Marshal Om Prakash Mehra 1639 GD(P) AOM Delhi	11 Aug 69 - 31 Mar 72 Air Marshal Yeshwant Vinayak Malse 1616 GD(P) AOM Delhi	01 Apr 73 - 26 Nov 74 Air Marshal Gurbachan Singh 1779 EQPT AOM Delhi	01 Mar 75 - 20 Sep 76 Air Marshal Bawa Sampuran Singh Bedi 1795 GD(O) AOM Delhi
Unknown - 31 Aug 78 Air Marshal Idandas Werhoma Sabhaney 2607 SIGS AOM Delhi	01 Sep 78 - 31 Aug 82 Air Marshal Chandrakant Shridhar Naik 3499 ENG AOM Delhi	01 Sep 82 - 31 Jan 85 Air Marshal Satish Chandra Lal 3793 SIGS AOM Delhi	01 Feb 85 - 31 May 86 Air Marshal Jagjit Singh Sandhawalia 3810 ENG AOM Delhi	01 Jun 86 - 31 Oct 87 Air Marshal Kuldip Singh Bhatia 4139 SIGS AOM Delhi
Unknown - 30 Apr 89 Air Marshal Sibaprasad Chakrabarti 4528 ARMT AOM Delhi	10 May 89 - 31 Dec 90 Air Marshal Raj Kumar Nehra 4518 ENG AOM Delhi	05 Mar 91 - 31 Jan 94 Air Marshal Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay 5237 ENG AOM Delhi	04 Feb 94 - 31 Oct 95 Air Marshal Machanda Chinapa Uthaya 5627 SIGS AOM Delhi	01 Nov 95 - 31 Oct 96 Air Marshal Ghanshyam Gururani 6387 ENG AOM Delhi
01 Nov 96 - 31 Jul 97 Air Marshal Shanti Swaroop Gupta 6805 ENG AOM Delhi	01 Aug 97 - 31 May 99 Air Marshal Proteep Kumar Ghosh 7106 SIGS AOM Delhi	Unknown - 31 Oct 01 Air Marshal Thrunillayi Ramaswamy Janakiraman 7058 ENG AOM Delhi	01 Nov 01 - 30 Jun 04 Air Marshal Vijay Adhyutrao Patkar 8632 SIGS AOM Delhi	Unknown - 15 Jun 05 Air Marshal Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi 12100 AE(L) AOM Delhi
Unknown - 31 Dec 06 Air Marshal Balatikalandra Uthaiah Chengappa 12112 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Jan 07 - 30 Nov 07 Air Marshal Gautam Nayyar 13024 AE(M) AOM Delhi	04 Dec 07 - 31 Jan 10 Air Marshal Keshava Murthy Rama Sundara 12833 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Feb 10 - 30 Sep 11 Air Marshal Joseph Neri 13711 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Oct 11 - 31 Mar 12 Air Marshal Raj Kumar Vashist 13832 AE(M) AOM Delhi
01 Apr 12 - 30 Jun 13 Air Marshal Packiriswamy Kanakaraj 15066 AE(M) AOM Delhi	01 Jul 13 - 30 Sep 14 Air Marshal Devinder Singh Khajuria 15073 AE(M) AOM Delhi	01 Oct 14 - 30 Nov 14 Air Marshal Jagjeet Singh 14814 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Dec 14 - 31 Oct 15 Air Marshal Sukhchain Singh 15808 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Nov 15 - 30 Apr 16 Air Marshal Virender Mohan Khanna 15071 AE(M) AOM Delhi
01 May 16 - 31 Dec 16 Air Marshal Prashant Purushottam Khandekar 15095 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Jan 17 - 28 Feb 18 Air Marshal Sanjay Sharma 15839 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Mar 18 - 31 Jan 19 Air Marshal Raj Karan Singh Shera 16315 AE(L) AOM Delhi	01 Feb 19 - 30 Jun 19 Air Marshal Jitendra Kumar Singh 16545 AE(M) AOM Delhi	01 Jul 19 - 31 Dec 19 Air Marshal Shashiker Choudhary 17645 AE(M) AOM Delhi
01 Dec 20 - 13 Jun 22 Air Marshal Vibhas Pande 17647 AE(M) AOM Delhi	01 Jul 23 - Air Marshal Chakalayil Rajappa Mohan 18517 AE(L) AOM Delhi

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