Eastern Air Command Date Raised : 1959-12-07 Location : Shillong No 1 Operational Group was upgraded to Eastern Air Command on 1 Dec 1959 at Calcutta. During the Indo-China Ccnflict of 1962, practical experience highlighted the difficulty of Kolkata being the location of Eastern Air Command. In order to have more effective operational control over the region of the north-east, the Command Headquarters was shifted to Shillong on 1 Jun 63. Read Detailed History
|
Commanding Officers | |||||
07 Dec 59 - 28 Dec 61Air Vice MarshalKundan Lal Sondhi1566 GD(P)AOC-in-CCalcutta | 03 Mar 62 - 01 Jan 63Air Vice MarshalKanwar Jaswant Singh1587 GD(P)AOC-in-CCalcutta | 14 Jan 63 - 09 Jun 63Air Vice MarshalShivdev Singh1595 GD(P)AOC-in-CCalcutta | 10 Jun 63 - 04 Aug 63Air Vice MarshalRamaswami Rajaram1573 GD(O)AOC-in-CShillong | 05 Aug 63 - 30 Sep 64Air Vice MarshalMinoo Merwan Engineer1614 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
01 Oct 64 - 30 Sep 66Air Vice MarshalYeshwant Vinayak Malse1616 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 28 Oct 66 - 31 Mar 68Air Vice MarshalRanjan Dutt1594 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Apr 68 - 23 Mar 71Air MarshalHirendra Nath Chatterjee1620 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 24 Mar 71 - 31 Mar 73Air MarshalHari Chand Dewan1598 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Apr 73 - 21 Apr 76Air MarshalMaurice Barker1691 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
24 Apr 76 - 12 Aug 78Air MarshalLal Singh Grewal2337 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 04 Sep 78 - 02 Jan 81Air MarshalLakshman Madhav Katre3117 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 03 Jan 81 - 26 Feb 83Air MarshalMalcolm Shirley Dundas Wollen3641 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Mar 83 - 30 Nov 83Air MarshalDouglas George King-Lee3040 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Dec 83 - 31 Oct 84Air MarshalMinoo Jehangir Dotiwalla3839 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
05 Nov 84 - 31 Dec 87Air MarshalKapil Dev Chadha3845 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 08 Feb 88 - 31 Jan 91Air MarshalMan Mohan Sinha4408 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 11 Feb 91 - 05 Oct 91Air MarshalRajendra Kumar Dhawan4736 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 07 Oct 91 - 30 Mar 92Air MarshalBrijesh Dhar Jayal4972 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 May 92 - 31 Jan 95Air MarshalDushyant Singh5048 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
01 Feb 95 - 31 Mar 96Air MarshalJanak Kapur5585 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Apr 96 - 03 Jan 99Air MarshalPrithvi Singh Brar6007 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 04 Jan 99 - 30 Nov 00Air MarshalKrishnan Narayan Nair6346 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Dec 00 - 20 Jan 02Air MarshalSatish Govind Inamdar7189 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 21 Jan 02 - 31 Oct 04Air MarshalManek Bomanshaw Madon7681 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
01 Nov 04 - 21 Aug 05Air MarshalAvinash Deodata Joshi10886 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 05 Sep 05 - 30 Mar 07Air MarshalFali Homi Major11442 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Apr 07 - 31 Dec 07Air MarshalPranab Kumar Barbora12375 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Jan 08 - 31 Dec 09Air MarshalShiv Kumar Bhan12510 GD(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Jan 10 - 31 Jul 11Air MarshalKrishan Kumar Nohwar13132 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
01 Aug 11 - 30 Nov 12Air MarshalSimhakutty Varthaman13606 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Dec 12 - 31 Dec 13Air MarshalRavi Kant Sharma14088 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Jan 14 - 31 Dec 14Air MarshalRakesh Kumar Jolly14083 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Jan 15 - 31 Aug 15Air MarshalShirish Baban Deo15681 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Sep 15 - 31 Dec 16Air MarshalChandrashekharan Hari Kumar15881 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
01 Jan 17 - 30 Sep 18Air MarshalAnil Khosla15871 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Oct 18 - 28 Feb 19Air MarshalRaghunath Nambiar16378 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Mar 19 - 30 Sep 20Air MarshalRajiv Dayal Mathur16772 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 01 Oct 20 - 30 Sep 21Air MarshalAmit Dev16972 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | 03 Oct 21 - 30 Sep 22Air MarshalDilip Kumar Patnaik17464 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong | |
01 Oct 22 - Air MarshalSujeet Pushpakar Dharkar17841 F(P)AOC-in-CShillong |