Advance HQ, Eastern Air Command Date Raised : 1971-07-07 Location : Calcutta Air Force Liaison Cell at Fort William Calcutta existed in June 1963. However, its exact date of formation remains unclear as it seems a setup of the same nature existed in Shillong prior to June 1963 and may have moved to Calcutta when HQ EAC moved to Shillong. In July 1971, this cell was redesignated as Advance HQ, Eastern Air Command. Till 1986 it had 2 TAC's under its command. On raising of 3 Corps in 1986, another TAC at Dimapur was setup.
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01 Apr 61 - 02 Mar 62Air CommodoreKanwar Jaswant Singh1587 GD(P)AOCShillong | 03 Mar 62 - 09 Jun 63Air CommodoreTeja Singh Virk1621 GD(O)AOCShillong | 07 Jul 71 - 14 Dec 73Air CommodoreSolomon Purushottam1928 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 17 Dec 73 - 31 Dec 75Air CommodoreHarbinder Singh Bedi3324 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 01 Jan 76 - 31 Jan 78Air CommodoreMadhu Sudan Ray3469 GD(N)AOCCalcutta | |
23 Jun 78 - 02 Jan 79Air CommodoreSurendra Nath Kawlra3945 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 02 Jan 79 - 09 Sep 79Air CommodoreVenkataraman Srinivas Iyer4330 GD(N)AOCCalcutta | 10 Sep 79 - 09 Aug 81Air CommodoreManish Kumar Rudra4358 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 10 Aug 81 - 31 Dec 84Air CommodoreRamachandra Shenoy Sudhakaran4780 GD(N)AOCCalcutta | 29 Mar 85 - 04 Feb 86Air CommodoreSindhaghatta Subbaramu5371 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | |
05 Feb 86 - 30 Sep 87Air CommodoreMurari Lal Trehon4577 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 01 Oct 87 - 31 Dec 90Air CommodoreRanbir Singh Rana5106 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 05 Jan 91 - 30 Sep 92Air CommodoreTushar Sen6006 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 15 Mar 93 - 31 Oct 97Air CommodoreRajinder Mohan Singh Datta8711 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 01 Nov 97 - 23 Dec 98Air CommodoreSadhashivan Radhakrishnan12408 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | |
24 Dec 98 - 31 Aug 99Air CommodorePrakash Narayandas Devy8745 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | 20 Dec 99 - 22 Mar 03Air CommodoreManovinder Shamsher Bahadur Singh Jauhar12201 GD(P)AOCCalcutta | | 12 Jan 04 - 30 Apr 06Air CommodoreKrishna Kumar Swaminathan13251 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 17 Jul 06 - 26 Apr 07Air CommodoreRamesh Rai14669 F(P)AOCCalcutta | |
30 Jul 07 - 31 Jul 09Air CommodoreDilip Dinkar Mandpe13937 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 03 Aug 09 - 31 Jul 10Air CommodoreBhabani Charan Talukdar13923 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 06 Dec 10 - 01 Jul 12Air CommodoreBavisetti Chandrasekhar17726 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 02 Jul 12 - 31 Dec 14Air Vice MarshalHarinder Jeet Walia16418 F(N)AOCCalcutta | 01 Jan 15 - 15 May 16Air Vice MarshalKalarikal Puttur Unnikrishnan Nair17023 F(N)AOCCalcutta | |
16 May 16 - 30 Apr 18Air Vice MarshalVikram Singh17699 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 28 May 18 - 19 Jun 19Air Vice MarshalDinesh Kumar Awasthi18079 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 20 Jun 19 - Air Vice MarshalGuttikonda Amara Prasad Babu17714 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 01 Sep 21 - Air Vice MarshalAwadesh Kumar Bharti18781 F(P)AOCCalcutta | 01 Feb 23 - Air Vice MarshalRahul Bhasin20745 F(P)AOCCalcutta | |