Advance HQ, Central Air Command


Date Raised : 1971-07-07 Location : Lucknow
Air Force Liaison Cell was formed on 23 July 1963 at Lucknow for co-ordination with the Central Command of Indian Army. On 7 July 1971, this establishment was upgraded to Adv HQ, CAC and given control of 8 TAC. In May 1991, the establishment was again downgraded to an AFLC. The incumbent staff at Adv HQ, CAC moved to Pune to take over as Adv HQ, SWAC. Between Dec 2003 and April 2009, AFLC was vacant with the role being performed by AFS Memaura. On 22 Aug 2012, AFLC was again upgraded to Adv HQ, CAC and AFLC standalone stopped functioning
Unit previously existed as AFLC CAC

Commanding Officers


07 Jul 71 - 27 Jan 73
Air Commodore
Raj Kumar Bahadur Singh
3180 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

31 Jan 73 - 10 Jan 75
Air Commodore
Dyal Singh
3489 GD(N)
AOC
Lucknow

13 Jan 75 - 31 Mar 77
Air Commodore
Hardyal Singh Dhillon
3237 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

09 May 77 - 30 Nov 77
Air Commodore
Aubrey Leslie Michael
3416 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

09 Jan 78 - 04 Apr 79
Air Commodore
Prabhakar Shanker Dere
3883 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

05 Apr 79 - 30 Sep 80
Air Commodore
Jagdish Singh Wohra
3943 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

01 Oct 80 - 29 Dec 81
Air Commodore
Madhukar Keshav Joshi
4399 GD(N)
AOC
Lucknow

01 Jan 82 - 26 Jul 83
Air Commodore
William George Beddoe
4686 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

16 Aug 83 - 30 Aug 85
Air Commodore
Avenash Chandra Mehta
4859 GD(N)
AOC
Lucknow

31 Aug 85 - 16 Aug 88
Air Commodore
Amrit Mohan Mehta
5051 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

16 Aug 88 - 31 Aug 90
Air Commodore
Herbert Moel David
5179 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

01 Sep 90 - 31 May 91
Air Commodore
Manbir Singh
6771 GD(P)
AOC
Lucknow

Unknown - 12 May 13
Group Captain
Arvind Kumar Singh
16820 F(P)
AOC
Lucknow

13 May 13 - 26 Jun 14
Air Vice Marshal
Gurinder Pal Singh
15417 F(P)
AOC
Lucknow

27 Jun 14 - 31 Dec 15
Air Vice Marshal
Rajesh Isser
16968 F(P)
AOC
Lucknow

Unknown -
Air Vice Marshal
Richard John Duckworth
17136 F(P)
AOC
Lucknow

Unknown -
Air Vice Marshal
Arun Bhaskar Gupta
18121 F(P)
AOC
Lucknow

Unknown - 31 Mar 21
Air Commodore
Anurag Joshi
18280 F(P)
AOC
Lucknow

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Pavan Kumar
20111 F(P)
AOC
Lucknow

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