Director, Offensive Operations Appointments at Air Head Quarters


12 Jun 70 - 11 Oct 70
Air Commodore
Charandas Gurudas Devashar
1867 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

12 Oct 70 - 30 Sep 71
Air Commodore
Krishna Mohan Ram
3101 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

10 Oct 71 - 06 Jan 74
Air Commodore
Aubrey Leslie Michael
3416 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

07 Jan 74 - 31 Mar 76
Air Commodore
Surinder Singh
3009 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

01 Apr 96 - 07 Jan 77
Air Commodore
Jagdish Raj Bhasin
3591 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

14 Mar 77 - 01 Jan 79
Air Commodore
Pynummooltil Simon George
4240 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

02 Jan 79 - 28 Oct 79
Air Commodore
Terence Joseph Desa
3863 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

29 Oct 79 - 19 Dec 79
Air Commodore
Surendra Kumar Mehra
4197 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

01 Apr 80 - 04 Jan 81
Air Commodore
Bhupendra Kumar Bishnoi
4594 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

13 Jul 81 - 30 Nov 82
Air Commodore
Prabhat Kumar Varma
4822 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

01 Dec 82 - 30 Nov 83
Air Commodore
Gandharva Sen
4429 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

07 Dec 83 - 31 Jan 86
Air Commodore
Keith David Kingsley Lewis
5109 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

17 Feb 86 - 08 Oct 87
Air Commodore
Chandra Sekhar Doraiswamy
5601 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

15 Oct 87 - 22 Jan 89
Air Commodore
Vinod Kumar Verma
6528 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

23 Jan 89 - 29 Dec 89
Air Commodore
Manbir Singh
6771 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

04 Jan 90 - 04 Jan 91
Air Commodore
Suresh Kumar Sonpar
6126 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

07 Jan 91 - 26 Nov 91
Air Commodore
Kamal Khanna
5795 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

26 Nov 91 -
Air Commodore
Trevor Raymond Joseph Osman
6005 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

Unknown - 01 Dec 93
Air Commodore
Darshan Singh Basra
6519 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

Unknown - 01 Dec 94
Air Commodore
Srinivas Anand Bhaskar Naidu
7230 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

01 Oct 96 - 31 Dec 96
Air Commodore
Ajit Bhavnani
10440 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

16 Dec 97 - 30 Jun 99
Air Commodore
Subhash Bhojwani
9734 GD(P)
Director (Ops, Offensive)
Delhi

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