Senior Officers of the IAF - 1960 by Service Number

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Rank & NameAppointment, UnitDates
Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee (1551 GD(P))CAS, Air Head QuartersDelhi1955-04-01 to 1960-11-08 - Died in Service
Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer (1554 GD(P))CAS, Air Head QuartersDelhi1960-12-01 to 1964-07-31
Air Commodore Surendra Nath Goyal (1560 GD(P))Cmdt, School of Land and Air WarfareSecunderabad1959-12-11 to 1961-03-31
Air Vice Marshal Diwan Atma Ram Nanda (1562 GD(P))DCAS, PSO: Operations, Air HQDelhi1958-05-01 to 1962-12-31
Air Vice Marshal Kundan Lal Sondhi (1566 GD(P))AOC-in-C, Eastern Air CommandCalcutta1959-12-07 to 1961-12-28
Air Vice Marshal Ramaswami Rajaram (1573 GD(O))SDS (Air), National Defence CollegeDelhi1960-02-01 to 1962-12-11
Air Vice Marshal Arjan Singh (1577 GD(P))Staff Course, Imperial Defence CollegeLondon, UK1960-01-01 to 1960-12-01
Air Commodore Kanwar Jaswant Singh (1587 GD(P))AOC (Policy and Plans), Air Head QuartersDelhi1960-11-25 to 1961-03-31
Air Commodore Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi (1592 GD(O))AOM, PSO: Maintenance, Air HQDelhi1958-05-28 to 1962-03-05
Air Vice Marshal Erlic Wilmot Pinto (1593 GD(P))AOC-in-C, Operational CommandDelhi1959-11-18 to 1963-06-09
Air Commodore Ranjan Dutt (1594 GD(P))AOC, Training CommandBangalore1959-03-23 to 1960-04-12
---On Promotion to Air Vice Marshal ---AOC-in-C, Training CommandBangalore1960-04-13 to 1960-12-29
Air Commodore Shivdev Singh (1595 GD(P))AOC, Advance HQ, Operational CommandSimla1960-01-12 to 1963-01-14
Air Commodore Hari Chand Dewan (1598 GD(P))SASO, Operational CommandDelhi1960-04-25 to 1961-05-01
Air Commodore Minoo Merwan Engineer (1614 GD(P))SASO, Operational CommandDelhi1959-04-15 to 1960-04-24
Air Commodore Hirendra Nath Chatterjee (1620 GD(P))Director (Policy and Plan, Air Head QuartersDelhi1959-03-24 to 1960-01-22
--Same as above--AOA, PSO: Administration, Air HQDelhi1960-01-23 to 1961-05-09
Air Commodore Om Prakash Mehra (1639 GD(P))AOC (Policy and Plans), Air Head QuartersDelhi1960-01-23 to 1960-11-24
Air Commodore Hrushikesh Moolgavkar (1644 GD(P))Air Advisor, High Commission of India, United KingdomLondon1959-02-22 to 1962-06-11
Air Vice Marshal Harjinder Singh (1963 ENG)AOC-in-C, Maintenance CommandKanpur1959-05-15 to 1963-08-02
Air Commodore Behari Lal Kapur (5770 MED)DMS (Air), Air Head QuartersDelhi1959-11-16 to 1961-11-05

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