![]() Flying Instructors School Date Raised : 1948-04-01 Location : Tambaram During October 1954, when it was running the 15th All Purpose Flying Instructors Course, it was also ordered to move down south to Tambaram. From its inception till its move to Tambaram, it had conducted fourteen courses; a rate of a little more than two training courses per year. Initially it had produced only about five instructors per course and that had slowly increased to about 9 for the 15th course. The needs of the Air Force were increasing by leaps and bounds. More instructors were urgently needed. Therefore, now that the unit was located in a place where it had room to expand, the intake was substantially increased for the 16th APFI course to a pupil-strength of 25 including one officer from the Army.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Apr 48 to 15 Jan 49 | Flight Lieutenant Leslie Richard Dickinson Blunt | 1994 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
15 Jan 49 to 07 Apr 49 | Flight Lieutenant Trilok Nath Bhanot | 2380 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
08 Apr 49 to 09 Dec 49 | Flight Lieutenant Hemonto Kumar Bose | 2348 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
09 Dec 49 to | Squadron Leader Hemonto Kumar Bose | 2348 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
Unknown to 17 Aug 51 | Squadron Leader Leslie Richard Dickinson Blunt | 1994 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
16 Aug 51 to 04 Oct 53 | Squadron Leader Jaspal Singh | 2451 GD(P) | CO | Ambala | |
05 Oct 53 to 16 May 57 | Squadron Leader Walter Joseph Fernandes | 2713 GD(P) | CO | Ambala/ Tambaram | |
17 May 57 to 22 Jan 60 | Squadron Leader Krishan Lal Suri | 2907 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
22 Jan 60 to 09 Jul 62 | Squadron Leader Reginald John Manual Upot | 3599 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
09 Jul 62 to 10 Mar 65 | Wing Commander Narendra Bahadur Singh | 2971 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
10 Mar 65 to 22 Apr 67 | Wing Commander Evans Lionel Birch | 3487 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
22 Apr 67 to 16 Dec 68 | Wing Commander Prabhakar Jaywant Jakatdar | 4237 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
16 Dec 68 to 23 Oct 71 | Wing Commander John Philipose | 4477 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
23 Oct 71 to 20 May 74 | Wing Commander Prakash Dev Dogra | 4250 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
20 May 74 to 16 Feb 76 | Wing Commander Debabrata Sen Gupta | 4979 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
16 Feb 76 to 30 Aug 76 | Wing Commander Tapas Kumar Sen | 4475 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
30 Aug 76 to 18 Mar 77 | Group Captain Tapas Kumar Sen | 4475 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
18 Mar 77 to 20 Jun 77 | Wing Commander Madhabendra Banerji | 4898 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
20 Jun 77 to 01 Nov 80 | Group Captain Madhabendra Banerji | 4898 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
01 Nov 80 to 02 Jan 82 | Group Captain Narendra Narayan Ubgade | 4878 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
02 Jan 82 to 09 Apr 84 | Group Captain Thupakulu Narasimhulu Bhavani Shankar | 5060 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
09 Apr 84 to 15 Feb 88 | Group Captain Ranjit Kumar Malhotra | 6513 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
15 Feb 88 to 27 Mar 90 | Group Captain Manayanthara Kunjanpillai Raghava Menon | 8766 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
27 Mar 90 to 07 Dec 92 | Group Captain Ajit Kumar Manohar Raje | 9050 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
07 Dec 92 to 20 Feb 95 | Group Captain Murali Sundaram | 12369 GD(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
20 Feb 95 to 16 Dec 96 | Group Captain Anil Gupta | 13242 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
16 Dec 96 to 05 Jul 99 | Group Captain Krishna Kumar Swaminathan | 13251 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
05 Jul 99 to 31 Oct 01 | Group Captain Vikas Krishna Rao Yajurvedi | 13248 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
01 Nov 01 to 15 Jun 03 | Group Captain Kuldeep Malik | 15181 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
15 Jun 03 to 20 Apr 05 | Group Captain Anup Ghosh | 15563 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
20 Apr 05 to 31 Jul 07 | Group Captain Harikamal Jeet Singh Sokhey | 15858 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
01 Aug 07 to 25 May 09 | Group Captain Thazhathupulikunnel Devasia Joseph | 16964 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
25 May 09 to 27 May 11 | Group Captain Seethepalli Shrinivas | 18787 F(P) | CO | Tambaram | |
28 May 11 to 21 Apr 13 | Group Captain Harpreet Singh Basra | 19174 F(P) | CO | Tambaram |