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PSO: Planning, Air HQ Date Raised : 1963-01-01 The post of Deputy Chief of Air Staff was setup in Jan 1963 as Vice Chief of Air Staff to ease the load on Deputy Chief. The directorates of Planning, Training and Education and similar roles were transferred to the VCAS. In April 1977, the nomenclature for VCAS and DCAS were interchanged. In 1987, Dte of Trg and in 1989, Dte of Edn was transferred from DCAS to AOP.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Jan 63 to 04 Aug 63 | Air Vice Marshal Diwan Atma Ram Nanda | 1562 GD(P) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 05 Aug 63 to 31 Jul 64 | Air Vice Marshal Arjan Singh | 1577 GD(P) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Oct 64 to 14 Jan 66 | Air Vice Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal | 1567 GD(O) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 15 Jan 66 to 01 Sep 66 | Air Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal | 1567 GD(O) | VCAS | Delhi | |
| 13 Dec 66 to 18 Jun 69 | Air Marshal Ramaswami Rajaram | 1573 GD(O) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 15 Jul 69 to 31 Mar 73 | Air Marshal Shivdev Singh | 1595 F(P) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Apr 73 to 30 Sep 73 | Air Marshal Yeshwant Vinayak Malse | 1616 F(P) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Oct 73 to 31 Mar 76 | Air Marshal Hari Chand Dewan | 1598 F(P) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Apr 76 to 31 Mar 77 | Air Marshal Anand Ramdas Pandit | 1707 F(P) | VCAS | Delhi |  |
| 20 May 77 to 23 Aug 78 | Air Marshal Jafar Zaheer | 3173 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 24 Aug 78 to 31 Jan 80 | Air Marshal Lal Singh Grewal | 2337 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 16 Apr 80 to 02 Jan 81 | Air Marshal Malcolm Shirley Dundas Wollen | 3641 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 15 Jan 81 to 30 Jun 83 | Air Marshal Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole | 3652 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 08 Jul 83 to 31 Oct 84 | Air Marshal Kapil Dev Chadha | 3845 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Jan 85 to 31 May 86 | Air Marshal Johney William Greene | 4093 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Jun 86 to 28 Feb 87 | Air Marshal Surendra Kumar Mehra | 4197 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Mar 87 to 31 Jul 88 | Air Marshal Pirthi Singh | 4480 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Aug 88 to 01 Apr 90 | Air Marshal Rajendra Kumar Dhawan | 4736 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 02 Apr 90 to 06 Oct 91 | Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal | 4972 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 07 Oct 91 to 30 Apr 93 | Air Marshal Trilochan Singh | 5043 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 May 93 to 28 Feb 94 | Air Marshal Prabhat Kumar Varma | 4822 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Mar 94 to 31 Jan 96 | Air Marshal Sharadkumar Ramakrishna Deshpande | 5694 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Feb 96 to 23 Jul 96 | Air Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy | 6338 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 24 Jul 96 to 31 Aug 97 | Air Marshal Man Mohan Singh Vasudeva | 6128 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Sep 97 to 30 Sep 99 | Air Marshal Syed Shahid Hussain Naqvi | 7193 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Oct 99 to 30 Nov 00 | Air Marshal Satish Govind Inamdar | 7189 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Dec 00 to 17 Mar 02 | Air Marshal Tej Mohan Asthana | 7672 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 05 Jun 02 to 31 Mar 04 | Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | 8997 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Apr 04 to 30 Apr 05 | Air Marshal Jaspal Singh Gujral | 11300 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 24 Aug 05 to 28 Feb 07 | Air Marshal Arvind Kumar Nagalia | 11633 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Mar 07 to 31 May 09 | Air Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne | 13129 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Jun 09 to 31 Jan 11 | Air Marshal Nirdosh Vatsyayan Tyagi | 12765 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Feb 11 to 30 Nov 12 | Air Marshal Ravi Kant Sharma | 14088 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Dec 12 to 28 Feb 14 | Air Marshal Subramanyam Sukumar | 14672 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Mar 14 to 30 Apr 14 | Air Marshal Sridharan Panicker Radha Krishnan Nair | 16040 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 May 14 to 31 Dec 15 | Air Marshal Shyam Bihari Prasad Sinha | 16053 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Jan 16 to 28 Feb 17 | Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria | 16026 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Mar 17 to 30 Sep 18 | Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar | 16378 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Oct 18 to 30 Sep 19 | Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari | 16978 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Oct 19 to 30 Apr 21 | Air Marshal Sandeep Singh | 17312 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 May 21 to 31 Jul 21 | Air Marshal Suraj Kumar Jha | 17445 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
| 01 Oct 21 to | Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari | 18270 F(P) | DCAS | Delhi |  |
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