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Jammu & Kashmir Date Raised : 1962-06-12 Location : Udhampur HQ J&K was formed at Srinagar on 12 June 1962 but moved to its current location in Udhampur on 13 Jan 64. The role of the establishment is Air Defence of J&K, offensive support to Army Command, air logistics needs in the area, and control of 4 and 6 TAC and NACC. On 1 Nov 1972, the post of AOC J&K was upgraded to AVM Rank. HQ J&K exercises control over all AF Units located north of Lat 32.04 (except 18 Wg and 740 SU).
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 12 Jun 62 to 17 Dec 62 | Air Commodore Anantha Ananthanarayanan | 1607 GD(P) | AOC | Srinagar |  |
| 18 Dec 62 to 14 Jan 64 | Air Commodore Murat Singh Aulakh | 1660 GD(O) | AOC | Srinagar |  |
| 15 Jan 64 to 11 Aug 66 | Air Commodore Pothery Charuvary Ramachandran | 3514 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 12 Aug 66 to 10 Jan 67 | Air Commodore Gian Dev Sharma | 1742 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 11 Jan 67 to 31 Dec 67 | Air Commodore Pundalik Basawant Rao Pawar | 2123 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Jan 68 to 01 Mar 68 | Air Commodore Idris Hasan Latif | 1804 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Mar 68 to 01 Sep 70 | Air Commodore Fredrick Van Allen Scudder | 2639 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Nov 70 to 31 Oct 72 | Air Commodore Samir Banerji | 2881 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Nov 72 to 02 Jan 73 | Air Vice Marshal George Kanishtkumar John | 2132 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 03 Jan 73 to 16 Sep 73 | Air Vice Marshal Lal Singh Grewal | 2337 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 17 Sep 73 to 28 Feb 74 | Air Vice Marshal Charandas Gurudas Devashar | 1867 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Mar 74 to 30 Jun 76 | Air Vice Marshal John Francis Lazaro | 2944 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 09 Aug 76 to 13 Aug 78 | Air Vice Marshal Balwant Wickram Chauhan | 3352 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Sep 78 to 30 Jun 79 | Air Vice Marshal Douglas George King-Lee | 3040 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Sep 79 to 30 Sep 80 | Air Vice Marshal Kenneth Hubert Larkins | 3511 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 19 Jan 81 to 30 Jun 83 | Air Vice Marshal Brijpal Singh Sikand | 3947 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Aug 83 to 30 Nov 83 | Air Vice Marshal Subramaniam Raghavendran | 3840 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Jan 84 to 26 Feb 85 | Air Vice Marshal Arvind Dalaya | 4025 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 21 Mar 85 to 28 Feb 86 | Air Vice Marshal Cecil Vivian Parker | 4346 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 11 Jun 86 to 06 Apr 87 | Air Vice Marshal Amia Kumar Sen | 4717 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Apr 87 to 17 Jan 88 | Air Vice Marshal Madhabendra Banerji | 4898 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 18 Jan 88 to 23 Jun 89 | Air Vice Marshal Dushyant Singh | 5048 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 03 Jul 89 to 09 Apr 91 | Air Vice Marshal Naresh Kumar | 5057 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 13 May 91 to 30 Apr 93 | Air Vice Marshal Harjit Singh Ghuman | 5692 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 21 Jun 93 to 31 Aug 94 | Air Vice Marshal Anil Yeshwant Tipnis | 5859 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Sep 94 to 15 Jul 95 | Air Vice Marshal Vinod Patney | 6125 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 24 Jul 95 to 31 Jul 97 | Air Vice Marshal Gautam Parihar | 6775 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Aug 97 to 01 Mar 98 | Air Vice Marshal Manjit Singh Sekhon | 6756 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Jun 98 to 01 Feb 00 | Air Vice Marshal Narayan Menon | 9005 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Feb 00 to 31 Dec 02 | Air Vice Marshal Gopalasamudram Mahadevan Vishwanathan | 9056 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 07 Jun 00 to 17 Dec 00 | Air Vice Marshal Satish Kumar Jain | 9716 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 14 Jan 03 to 31 May 04 | Air Vice Marshal Ravindra Dattatreya Limaye | 10464 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Jun 04 to | Air Vice Marshal Satish Kumar Gahlaut | 12764 GD(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Sep 06 to 31 Jan 08 | Air Vice Marshal Anil Chopra | 13368 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 21 Apr 08 to 31 Dec 10 | Air Vice Marshal Jasvinder Chauhan | 14079 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Jan 11 to 31 Jul 11 | Air Vice Marshal Paramjit Singh Gill | 14097 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Aug 11 to | Air Vice Marshal Jasbir Singh Walia | 15684 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| Unknown to 30 Jun 14 | Air Vice Marshal Anil Khosla | 15871 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Jul 14 to 08 Jun 16 | Air Vice Marshal Upkarjit Singh | 16204 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 09 Jun 16 to | Air Vice Marshal Gurcharan Singh Bedi | 17448 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| Unknown to 31 Mar 19 | Air Vice Marshal Sanjay Nimesh | 17862 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Apr 19 to 30 Jun 21 | Air Vice Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha | 17842 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Jul 21 to 26 Apr 22 | Air Vice Marshal Tejinder Singh | 18806 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 27 Apr 22 to 30 Nov 23 | Air Vice Marshal Parveen Keshav Vohra | 19162 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
| 01 Dec 23 to | Air Vice Marshal Vikram Gaur | 21008 F(P) | AOC | Udhampur |  |
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