Director, Offensive Operations Appointments at Air Head Quarters

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DatesRank & NameNumberRemarksLocationPhoto
12 Jun 70 to 11 Oct 70Air Commodore Charandas Gurudas Devashar1867 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
12 Oct 70 to 30 Sep 71Air Commodore Krishna Mohan Ram3101 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
10 Oct 71 to 06 Jan 74Air Commodore Aubrey Leslie Michael3416 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
07 Jan 74 to 31 Mar 76Air Commodore Surinder Singh3009 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
01 Apr 96 to 07 Jan 77Air Commodore Jagdish Raj Bhasin3591 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
14 Mar 77 to 01 Jan 79Air Commodore Pynummooltil Simon George4240 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
02 Jan 79 to 28 Oct 79Air Commodore Terence Joseph Desa3863 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
29 Oct 79 to 19 Dec 79Air Commodore Surendra Kumar Mehra4197 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
01 Apr 80 to 04 Jan 81Air Commodore Bhupendra Kumar Bishnoi4594 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
13 Jul 81 to 30 Nov 82Air Commodore Prabhat Kumar Varma4822 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
01 Dec 82 to 30 Nov 83Air Commodore Gandharva Sen4429 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
07 Dec 83 to 31 Jan 86Air Commodore Keith David Kingsley Lewis5109 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
17 Feb 86 to 08 Oct 87Air Commodore Chandra Sekhar Doraiswamy5601 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
15 Oct 87 to 22 Jan 89Air Commodore Vinod Kumar Verma6528 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
23 Jan 89 to 29 Dec 89Air Commodore Manbir Singh6771 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
04 Jan 90 to 04 Jan 91Air Commodore Suresh Kumar Sonpar6126 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
07 Jan 91 to 26 Nov 91Air Commodore Kamal Khanna5795 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
26 Nov 91 to Air Commodore Trevor Raymond Joseph Osman6005 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
Unknown to 01 Dec 93Air Commodore Darshan Singh Basra6519 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
Unknown to 01 Dec 94Air Commodore Srinivas Anand Bhaskar Naidu7230 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
01 Oct 96 to 31 Dec 96Air Commodore Ajit Bhavnani10440 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi
16 Dec 97 to 30 Jun 99Air Commodore Subhash Bhojwani9734 GD(P)Director (Ops, Offensive)Delhi

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