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Director (Air Defence) Appointments at Air Head Quarters | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun 70 to 30 Nov 72 | Air Commodore Jaspal Singh | 2451 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 01 Dec 72 to 30 Jan 73 | Group Captain Evans Lionel Birch | 3487 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 31 Jan 73 to 24 Nov 73 | Air Commodore Evans Lionel Birch | 3487 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi | |
| 25 Nov 73 to 31 Mar 75 | Air Commodore Kanwar Singh | 2781 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 01 Apr 75 to 05 Jan 76 | Air Commodore Peter Maynard Wilson | 3590 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 06 Jan 76 to 02 Jan 77 | Air Commodore Robert Arnold Weir | 3881 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 03 Jan 77 to 20 Feb 77 | Group Captain Nirmal Chandra Suri | 4236 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 21 Feb 77 to 01 Apr 79 | Air Commodore Narendra Bahadur Singh | 2971 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 02 Apr 79 to 09 Sep 79 | Air Commodore Robert Arnold Weir | 3881 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi | |
| 10 Sep 79 to 30 Sep 80 | Air Commodore Surapati Bhattacharya | 3974 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 01 Oct 80 to 04 Jan 81 | Air Commodore William George Beddoe | 4686 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 13 Apr 81 to 12 Jul 81 | Air Commodore Prabhat Kumar Varma | 4822 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 13 Jul 81 to 08 Apr 84 | Air Commodore Eric Lionel Allen | 4582 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 28 Apr 84 to 19 Dec 85 | Air Commodore Pondicherry Jayarao Jayakumar | 5037 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 20 Dec 85 to 24 Oct 86 | Air Commodore Edwin Godfrey Salins | 4796 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 24 Nov 86 to 31 Oct 88 | Air Commodore Ranjit Singh Bedi | 5120 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 01 Nov 88 to 22 Feb 89 | Air Commodore Manjunath Sadanand | 4994 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 23 Aug 89 to 04 Feb 91 | Air Commodore Gautam Parihar | 6775 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 04 Feb 91 to | Air Commodore Man Mohan Singh Vasudeva | 6128 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 21 Jun 93 to 01 Dec 94 | Air Commodore Shashindra Pal Tyagi | 8130 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 01 Jan 97 to 01 Jun 98 | Air Commodore Narayan Menon | 9005 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 08 Dec 97 to 31 Aug 99 | Air Commodore Satish Kumar Jain | 9716 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 01 Jan 84 to 01 Jan 86 | Group Captain Ramesh Goyal | 14567 F(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
| 18 Mar 02 to | Air Commodore Vivek Kumar Chopra | 12752 GD(P) | Director (Air Defence) | Delhi |  |
Note: All the data available here is publicly available in the Gazette of India, published by the Indian Government, or from public domain sources, press releases about Awards and Right-To-Information (RTI) Requests. Additionally data shared by veterans is added to the page with permission. No data with respect to serving officers below the rank of AVM is displayed. Information in Gazette of India and Award citations and photographs as released by the Indian Air Force are the only details displayed.