Central Air Command

Date Raised : 1963-06-10 Location : Allahabad

The Central Air Command was formed at Rani Kuthee, Calcutta in Mar 1962. However with need to increase vigil along the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Tibetan borders, Calcutta was considered inappropriate location for the Central Air Command Headquarters and it was relocated at Allahabad in February 1966. The task assigned to this Command is to patrol the North Central sector of this country from Himachal border to Sikkim. The area assigned to command stretches from Bareilly/Agra in the North to Bihta/Darbhanga in the East from Indo-Nepal border in the North to Nagpur in the South.

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10 Jun 63 - 04 Mar 66 Air Vice Marshal Shivdev Singh 1595 GD(P) AOC-in-C Calcutta	05 Mar 66 - 31 Dec 66 Air Vice Marshal Kundan Lal Sondhi 1566 GD(P) AOC-in-C Calcutta	01 Jan 67 - 28 Mar 68 Air Vice Marshal Hari Chand Dewan 1598 GD(P) AOC-in-C Calcutta	29 Mar 68 - 31 Mar 71 Air Vice Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar 1644 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Apr 71 - 15 Jun 72 Air Vice Marshal Maurice Barker 1691 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
16 Jun 72 - 25 Jun 72 Air Vice Marshal Bandi Sreeramulu Krishnarao 1727 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	26 Jun 72 - 26 Jun 74 Air Marshal Bandi Sreeramulu Krishnarao 1727 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	27 Jun 74 - 29 Feb 76 Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif 1804 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Mar 76 - 31 Jan 77 Air Marshal George Kanishtkumar John 2132 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Feb 77 - 31 Dec 78 Air Marshal Gian Dev Sharma 1742 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
10 Feb 79 - 20 Sep 81 Air Marshal Trilochan Singh Brar 2884 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	21 Sep 81 - 31 Dec 83 Air Marshal Balwant Wickram Chauhan 3352 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jan 84 - 31 Oct 84 Air Marshal Denis Anthony Lafontaine 3844 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	06 Nov 84 - 31 May 86 Air Marshal Ripu Daman Sahni 3867 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jun 86 - 31 Mar 87 Air Marshal Johney William Greene 4093 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
01 Apr 87 - 29 Feb 88 Air Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri 4236 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Mar 88 - 31 Dec 90 Air Marshal Mohinder Singh Bawa 4494 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	11 Feb 91 - 30 Apr 92 Air Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul 4721 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 May 92 - 26 Feb 93 Air Marshal Pondicherry Jayarao Jayakumar 5037 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Mar 93 - 31 May 95 Air Marshal Naresh Kumar 5057 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
01 Jun 95 - 30 Jun 96 Air Marshal Dev Nath Rathore 5780 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jul 96 - 31 Mar 97 Air Marshal Vinod Patney 6125 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Apr 97 - 30 Nov 97 Air Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy 6338 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	22 Dec 97 - 31 Oct 99 Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Bhatia 6497 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Nov 99 - 31 Jul 00 Air Marshal Vinod Patney 6125 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
01 Aug 00 - 30 Apr 02 Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Verma 6528 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 May 02 - 31 Jan 03 Air Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi 8130 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Feb 03 - 31 Mar 04 Air Marshal Brijendra Mohan Bali 8438 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Apr 04 - 30 Apr 05 Air Marshal Raghu Rajan 8997 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 May 05 - 31 Oct 06 Air Marshal Jaspal Singh Gujral 11300 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
01 Nov 06 - 31 Dec 07 Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik 12005 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	31 Dec 07 - 30 Jun 09 Air Marshal Packiam Paul Rajkumar 12018 GD(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jul 09 - 31 Oct 11 Air Marshal Gurdip Singh Kochar 13149 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Nov 11 - 31 May 12 Air Marshal Arup Raha 13910 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jun 12 - 31 Jul 14 Air Marshal Jasvinder Chauhan 14079 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
01 Aug 14 - 31 Dec 15 Air Marshal Kulwant Singh Gill 15220 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jan 16 - 31 Dec 18 Air Marshal Shyam Bihari Prasad Sinha 16053 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jan 19 - 31 Jan 21 Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar 16770 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Feb 21 - 31 May 21 Air Marshal Amit Tiwari 16806 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad	01 Jul 21 - 30 Jun 22 Air Marshal Richard John Duckworth 17136 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad
01 Jul 22 - 31 Jan 23 Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh 17695 F(P) AOC-in-C Allahabad

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