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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01 Apr 48 - 15 Jan 49Flight LieutenantLeslie Richard Dickinson Blunt1994 GD(P)COAmbala | 15 Jan 49 - 07 Apr 49Flight LieutenantTrilok Nath Bhanot2380 GD(P)COAmbala | 08 Apr 49 - 09 Dec 49Flight LieutenantHemonto Kumar Bose2348 GD(P)COAmbala | 09 Dec 49 - 05 Jun 51Squadron LeaderHemonto Kumar Bose2348 GD(P)COAmbala | 06 Jun 51 - 17 Aug 51Squadron LeaderLeslie Richard Dickinson Blunt1994 GD(P)COAmbala | |
16 Aug 51 - 04 Oct 53Squadron LeaderJaspal Singh2451 GD(P)COAmbala | 05 Oct 53 - 16 May 57Squadron LeaderWalter Joseph Fernandes2713 GD(P)COAmbala/ Tambaram | 17 May 57 - 22 Jan 60Squadron LeaderKrishan Lal Suri2907 GD(P)COTambaram | 22 Jan 60 - 09 Jul 62Squadron LeaderReginald John Manual Upot3599 GD(P)COTambaram | 09 Jul 62 - 10 Mar 65Wing CommanderNarendra Bahadur Singh2971 GD(P)COTambaram | |
10 Mar 65 - 22 Apr 67Wing CommanderEvans Lionel Birch3487 GD(P)COTambaram | 22 Apr 67 - 16 Dec 68Wing CommanderPrabhakar Jaywant Jakatdar4237 GD(P)COTambaram | 16 Dec 68 - 23 Oct 71Wing CommanderJohn Philipose4477 GD(P)COTambaram | 23 Oct 71 - 20 May 74Wing CommanderPrakash Dev Dogra4250 GD(P)COTambaram | | |
16 Feb 76 - 30 Aug 76Wing CommanderTapas Kumar Sen4475 GD(P)COTambaram | 30 Aug 76 - 18 Mar 77Group CaptainTapas Kumar Sen4475 GD(P)COTambaram | 18 Mar 77 - 20 Jun 77Wing CommanderMadhabendra Banerji4898 GD(P)COTambaram | 20 Jun 77 - 01 Nov 80Group CaptainMadhabendra Banerji4898 GD(P)COTambaram | 01 Nov 80 - 02 Jan 82Group CaptainNarendra Narayan Ubgade4878 GD(P)COTambaram | |
02 Jan 82 - 09 Apr 84Group CaptainThupakulu Narasimhulu Bhavani Shankar5060 GD(P)COTambaram | 09 Apr 84 - 15 Feb 88Group CaptainRanjit Kumar Malhotra6513 GD(P)COTambaram | 15 Feb 88 - 27 Mar 90Group CaptainManayanthara Kunjanpillai Raghava Menon8766 GD(P)COTambaram | 27 Mar 90 - 07 Dec 92Group CaptainAjit Kumar Manohar Raje9050 GD(P)COTambaram | 07 Dec 92 - 20 Feb 95Group CaptainMurali Sundaram12369 GD(P)COTambaram | |
20 Feb 95 - 16 Dec 96Group CaptainAnil Gupta13242 F(P)COTambaram | 16 Dec 96 - 05 Jul 99Group CaptainKrishna Kumar Swaminathan13251 F(P)COTambaram | 05 Jul 99 - 31 Oct 01Group CaptainVikas Krishna Rao Yajurvedi13248 F(P)COTambaram | 01 Nov 01 - 15 Jun 03Group CaptainKuldeep Malik15181 F(P)COTambaram | 15 Jun 03 - 20 Apr 05Group CaptainAnup Ghosh15563 F(P)COTambaram | |
20 Apr 05 - 31 Jul 07Group CaptainHarikamal Jeet Singh Sokhey15858 F(P)COTambaram | 01 Aug 07 - 25 May 09Group CaptainThazhathupulikunnel Devasia Joseph16964 F(P)COTambaram | 25 May 09 - 27 May 11Group CaptainSeethepalli Shrinivas18787 F(P)COTambaram | 28 May 11 - 21 Apr 13Group CaptainHarpreet Singh Basra19174 F(P)COTambaram |