Air-I Appointments at Western Air Command


04 Oct 62 - 23 Nov 64
Wing Commander
Samir Banerji
2881 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

23 Nov 64 - 29 Jul 66
Wing Commander
Subhas Ranjan Bose
3152 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

29 Jun 66 - 01 Apr 68
Wing Commander
Minoo Jehangir Dotiwalla
3839 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

02 Apr 68 - 27 Jan 69
Air Commodore
Charandas Gurudas Devashar
1867 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

12 Feb 69 - 18 Jul 70
Air Commodore
Sarosh Jehangir Dastur
1792 GD(O)
Air-I
Delhi

22 Nov 70 - 07 Jan 74
Air Commodore
Trilochan Singh Brar
2884 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

08 Jan 74 - 01 Jul 74
Air Commodore
Peter Maynard Wilson
3590 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

02 Jul 74 - 01 Apr 75
Air Commodore
Narendra Bahadur Singh
2971 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

02 Apr 75 - 19 Jul 76
Air Commodore
Denis Anthony Lafontaine
3844 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

20 Jul 76 - 21 Feb 77
Air Commodore
Narendra Bahadur Singh
2971 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

20 Jun 77 - 29 Dec 78
Air Commodore
Jayaram Nilkanth Jatar
4040 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

30 Dec 78 - 09 Jan 81
Air Commodore
Man Mohan Singh
4023 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

10 Jan 81 - 16 Sep 84
Air Commodore
Kanwal Krishan Malik
4335 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

17 Sep 84 - 18 Nov 84
Group Captain
Herbert Moel David
5179 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

19 Nov 84 - 17 Feb 86
Air Commodore
Herbert Moel David
5179 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

18 Feb 86 - 03 Jan 88
Air Commodore
Viney Kapila
5596 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

04 Jan 88 - 25 Jun 90
Air Commodore
Vishnu Murti Raina
5382 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

26 Jun 90 - 10 Mar 92
Air Commodore
Sitaramaiah Pingali
7674 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

11 Mar 92 - 01 Jan 94
Air Commodore
Jeffrey D'Souza
7432 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

03 Jan 94 - 30 Jan 95
Air Commodore
Krishna Balakrishna Menon
9028 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

31 Jan 95 - 28 Mar 96
Air Commodore
Jogendra Singh Sisodia
7696 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

29 Mar 96 - 24 Apr 97
Air Commodore
Har Prakash Singh Sidhu
11051 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

09 May 97 - 04 Dec 98
Air Commodore
Shah Baig Singh Paul
11857 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

07 Dec 98 - 30 Nov 00
Air Commodore
Avdesh Kumar Singh
11005 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

01 Dec 00 - 19 Nov 01
Air Commodore
Sumit Mukerji
12925 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

15 Dec 01 - 30 Jan 03
Air Commodore
Pradeep Vasant Naik
12005 GD(P)
Air-I
Delhi

31 Jan 03 - 24 Oct 04
Air Commodore
Norman Anil Kumar Browne
13129 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

01 Nov 04 - 31 May 06
Air Commodore
Dinesh Chandra Kumaria
13366 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

01 Jun 06 - 01 Jul 07
Air Commodore
Ravinath Gururaj Burli
14667 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

02 Jul 07 - 20 Apr 08
Air Commodore
Chandrashekharan Hari Kumar
15881 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

21 Apr 08 - 31 Aug 09
Air Commodore
Amit Aneja
14668 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

01 Sep 09 - 12 Dec 10
Air Commodore
Michael Fernandez
16967 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

13 Dec 10 - 04 Dec 11
Air Commodore
Rajiv Dayal Mathur
16772 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

05 Dec 11 - 03 Mar 13
Air Commodore
Gurcharan Singh Bedi
17448 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

04 Mar 13 - 02 Nov 14
Air Commodore
Diptendu Choudhury
17335 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

03 Nov 14 - 31 Jul 16
Air Commodore
Savinder Pal Singh
18116 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

01 Aug 16 - 07 Jan 18
Air Commodore
Rakesh Sinha
18797 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

08 Jan 18 - 05 May 19
Air Commodore
Nagesh Kapoor
18557 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

20 May 19 - 21 Dec 21
Air Commodore
Pudiapura Jawahar Mohamed
20445 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

22 Dec 21 -
Air Commodore
Joy Thomas Kurien
20782 F(P)
Air-I
Delhi

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