96 Course

Start Date : 22 Jun 64 End Date : 29 Oct 66

96 Pilot Course - The course training was broken up into five states pre- commissioning - AFAC, EFTUs, PTE, AFFC and finally applied stage at various conversion units. Direct entry cadets selected for the 96 PC joined AFAC Coimbatore on 22 June 1964 and completed ground training on 24 October 1964.

Thereafter they were sent to various Elementary Flying Training Units (EFTUs) between 6 Dec 1964 and 1 March 1965. They were expected to do 25 hours of flying including about five hours solo. Tambaram and Nagpur had L-5s, Kanpur, Delhi and Patiala had Pushpak.

The Course was then sent to Pilot Training Establishment (PTE) Bamrauli for Basic stage flying between 28 March 1965 and October 1965 on the HT2. 27 NDA Course joined up at this stage. While the direct entry cadets did again 25 hours of flying, the NDA entry cadets did 50 hours.

The Course was then sent to AFFC Jodhpur for the intermediate stage flying on the Texan T6G/Harvard aircraft between October 1965 and 11 March 1966. Each Flight cadet was given between 75-80 hours of flying hours with about half of it being solo.

For the applied stage, the course was split into four groups on 24 March 1966. Roughly 60 cadets each were sent to FTW Hakimpet on Vampires for Fighter stream, No1. TTW at Begumpet and No. 2 TTW at Yelahanka on DC3 Dakota for Transport stream and 12 cadets were sent to LSTU Bamrauli on Bell G3 for helicopter stream. On completion of these stages successfully on 29 October 1966 they received commission and Wings. This was the largest course in IAF till date with 191 commissioned pilots.

SK Singh (10421) got the presidents Plaque for Best all-round officer of the course. He also got the CAS Medal for the best all-around officer of the Transport Wing and Das Gupta trophy for best in Transport Flying. VK Awasthi (10422) got CAS Medal for Best all-round officer of Jet Wing and JV D'silva (10447) got CAS Medal for Best all-round officer of Helicopter course. SS Grewal (10434) got Majumdar Trophy for best Jet Pilot.

View Career Timeline of Individual members in this course

No Image Available 10421 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Shailendra Kumar Singh Died in Service on 07 Aug 73	10422 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Vinod Kumar Awasthi Died in Service on 19 Dec 80	No Image Available 10423 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Jitendra Kumar Singh	10424 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Madhusudan Sadashiv Sohoni	No Image Available 10425 GD(P) Flying Officer Harjit Singh Chowhan Died in Service on 20 Sep 68
10426 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Chandra Prakash Naidu	No Image Available 10427 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Kailash Chander Chadda	10428 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Ramesh Chandra Sharma	10429 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Sarabjit Singh	No Image Available 10430 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Subhas Chander Narula
10431 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Arun Kumar Isser	10432 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Velayudhan Gopa Kumar	10433 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Shashikant Anandnath Koppikar	No Image Available 10434 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sukhcharan Singh Grewal	No Image Available 10435 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Pramendra Kumar Banga
No Image Available 10436 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Vinod Kenneth Edwin	10437 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Kamal Kumar Jotwani	10438 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Amarjit Singh Oberai	No Image Available 10439 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Raghbir Singh Sandhu	10440 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Marshal Ajit Bhavnani
10441 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Leslie Raymond Springett	No Image Available 10442 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flying Officer Mohit Lokumal Sadarangani	10443 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Vice Marshal Allandur Sulochanan Gurunathan	No Image Available 10444 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Krishnan Sundarajan	No Image Available 10445 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Virender Pal Singh Sidhu
No Image Available 10446 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Yogesh Sachdev	10447 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander John Vincent D'Silva	10448 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Brij Dev Madhok	No Image Available 10449 GD(P) Flight Lieutenant Harish Chander Jain	10450 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Michael Alexander Wilson
10451 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Jois Nagaraj	10452 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Gurcharan Singh Madan	No Image Available 10453 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Freddy Kujur	10454 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Thomas Mathews Died in Service on 04 Feb 87	10455 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Siddappa Puttanna
10456 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Pradip Vinayak Apte Died in Service on 04 Dec 71	No Image Available 10457 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ralph Anthony Rodrigues	No Image Available 10458 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ratnesh Chandra Srivastava	No Image Available 10459 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Krishnamoorthi Vaidyanathan	10460 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Atma Singh Grewal Died in Service on 04 Dec 72
No Image Available 10461 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Nand Lal Verma	10462 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Vishwanathan Natarajan	No Image Available 10463 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Prabir Kumar Dutta	10464 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Vice Marshal Ravindra Dattatreya Limaye	No Image Available 10465 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flying Officer Avinash Shankar Dandekar
No Image Available 10466 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Pritam Ganguli	No Image Available 10467 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Vivek Kumar Gupta	10468 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Subramaniamudaliar Muthukumaraswamy Died in Service on 27 Jan 76	10469 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Jeffrey Reginald McKerrow	10470 GD(P) Flying Officer Subhas Chandra Borpatra Gohain Died in Service on 25 Feb 71
No Image Available 10471 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Nadan Mukund Rao	No Image Available 10472 GD(P) Flying Officer Jagdish Chander Maedh Died in Service on 14 May 70	No Image Available 10473 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Venkatachalam Dhanushkodi Died in Service on 08 Aug 73	10474 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Pradeep Kumar Tayal	No Image Available 10475 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Rajendra Kumar Nageshwar Rao Ithape
10476 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Noshir Soli Mistry	10477 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Edulker Balachand	10478 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Manohar Sharma	No Image Available 10479 GD(P) Pilot Officer Cadambe Narasimhachar Ranganathan Died in Service on 07 Jun 67	10480 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Alok Kaushal
10481 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Amarjeet Singh Chawla	10482 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Kenneth Charles Tremenheere	10483 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Shashi Mohan Puri	No Image Available 10484 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ramaswami Srinivasan	No Image Available 10485 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sushil Kumar Gupta
10486 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Kollamparambil Narayanan Unnikrishnan	No Image Available 10487 GD(P) Flying Officer Virender Singh Randhawa Died in Service on 11 May 68	10488 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Parminder Jit Singh Sidhu	No Image Available 10489 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Anand Sarup Bhardwaj	No Image Available 10490 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Joe Grant Lalmingliana
No Image Available 10491 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Abraham Koshy	10492 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Ashok Avadhutrao Rajshirke	No Image Available 10493 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Om Parkash Vashist	No Image Available 10494 GD(P) Flying Officer Simran Singh Shyam Kohli Died in Service on 05 May 67	No Image Available 10495 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Ravindra Singh Malhari
10496 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Harkant Singh Chonker	10497 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Anil Kumar Sharma	No Image Available 10498 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Pushpinder Singh Manak	No Image Available 10499 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Swamirathnam Balasubramanian	No Image Available 10500 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Harbir Singh Sidhu
No Image Available 10501 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sudhir Bhaskar Nadkarni	No Image Available 10502 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Surinder Mohan Sharma	10503 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Joaquim D'Souza Died in Service on 17 Dec 71	10504 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Vidyadhar Shankarrao Chati	No Image Available 10505 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Prabh Dial Singh Ahluwalia
No Image Available 10506 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Manjit Singh Sandhu	No Image Available 10507 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Vaikundanathan Rajarama	10508 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Vice Marshal Kalathil Payan Sreekanth	10509 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Ramaswamy Ramachandran	No Image Available 10510 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Desmond Desiderio Fialho
No Image Available 10511 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Eknath Parsharam Gaikwad	10512 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Anand Jaivanth Rao	No Image Available 10513 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ganapathy Radha Krishna Murthi	10514 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Gurmohinder Singh Bajwa	No Image Available 10515 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Chander Narain Shukla
10516 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Donald Lazarus	No Image Available 10517 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Arvind Chopra	10518 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Bhupinder Singh Marwa	10519 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ashok Vishwas Waghmare	10520 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Inder Kumar Bali
No Image Available 10521 GD(P) Flying Officer Sudesh Pal	No Image Available 10522 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Girish Prabhakar Joshi	10523 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Devinder Kumar Sandhir	10524 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Jai Kishen Kaushik	10525 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Marshal Sharad Yeshwant Savur
10526 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Commodore Mahinder Dev Khanna	No Image Available 10527 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Surinder Kumar Midha	10528 GD(P) Squadron Leader Rajeshwar Prasad	10529 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Deverla Nagabushanam Ganan Prakash Rao	No Image Available 10530 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Jitendra Sharma
10531 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Satwant Singh Ahluwalia	No Image Available 10532 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Alagalore Venkataraman Kumar	No Image Available 10533 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Khaire Gurung	No Image Available 10534 GD(P) Flying Officer Gurdip Kapoor Died in Service on 18 Apr 70	10535 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Vijay Noel James
No Image Available 10536 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sudesh Chader Sahni	No Image Available 10537 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sankara Pillai Kaliyal Janardanan Nair	No Image Available 10538 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Mohan Gopal Varkhedkar	10539 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sunith Francis Soares	10540 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ranjeet Shankarrao Powar
10541 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Anil Sadashiv Patwardhan	10542 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Naveen Chandra Trigunayat	No Image Available 10543 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Subhas Vyankatrao Lagad	10544 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Surender Kumar Chopra	No Image Available 10545 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Kamal Bahadur Shahi
10546 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Deshpal Singh Died in Service on 11 Oct 76	No Image Available 10547 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Harbans Singh Bhullar	No Image Available 10548 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Krishan Avtar Puri	10549 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Dipak Kumar Bhattacharya	No Image Available 10550 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ashok Hanmantrao Patil
No Image Available 10551 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ravinder Mohan Kapur	No Image Available 10552 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Chaitan Ramanand Kodigal	10553 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Pottery Cheruvary Sidharth	10554 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Neil Kamalkar Bhuleshkar	10555 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sukhdev Singh Tiwana
No Image Available 10556 GD(P) Flying Officer Manjeet Singh Bhatia	No Image Available 10557 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ronald Dunne	No Image Available 10558 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Ram Krishna Vyas	No Image Available 10559 GD(P) Flying Officer Sudheer Trimbakrao Pawar Died in Service on 24 Oct 70	10560 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Akoijam Debendra Singh
No Image Available 10561 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Chekuri Mohan Rao Died in Service on 26 Feb 89	10562 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Yoginder Paul Kapur	No Image Available 10563 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Peethambararao Kavindranath Pawar	No Image Available 10564 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Shiv Kumar Sharma	No Image Available 10565 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Siddeshwar Malleshappa Bellary
No Image Available 10566 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Dhanwant Singh Mangat	10567 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Virender Soni	No Image Available 10568 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Kochukrishna Pillai Madhavan Nair	No Image Available 10569 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Narinder Jit Singh Butalia	10570 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Anil Govindrao Bendre
No Image Available 10571 GD(P) Flight Lieutenant Brindra Duggal	No Image Available 10572 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Kirti Kumar Chopra	No Image Available 10573 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Amarbir Singh Jandu	10574 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Noel Thomas Lobo	10575 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flying Officer Kotteiezath Puthiyavettil Muralidharan Died in Service on 04 Dec 71
10576 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flying Officer Kishan Lakhimal Malkani Died in Service on 05 Dec 71	No Image Available 10577 GD(P) Flight Lieutenant Minoo Burjorji Billimoria Died in Service on	No Image Available 10578 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Orel Mark Pais	10579 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Dinesh Prabhakar Gadkari	10580 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Kiran Kumar Vohra
10581 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Darwin Vincent Pepper	10582 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sudhir Christopher Chatterjee	No Image Available 10583 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Gurcharan Singh Sohal	No Image Available 10584 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Vijay Bholanath Hoon	10585 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Dharam Vir Seemar
No Image Available 10586 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader George Judah	10587 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Sudershan Kumar Goel	No Image Available 10588 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Ranbir Singh	No Image Available 10589 GD(P) Flying Officer Dinshaw Feroze Nanavati Died in Service on 01 Sep 71	10590 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Perminder Singh Pannu
No Image Available 10591 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Vikram Dinesh	10592 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Winston Errol Evans	10593 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Thakur Ramanuj Singh	10594 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Shashishekhar Shantesh Patil	10595 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Flight Lieutenant Ramesh Kaul
10596 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Kumar Kanti Som	No Image Available 10597 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Kuppusamy Sundararajan	No Image Available 10598 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Prithpal Singh Kher	10599 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Dilip Mukherjee	No Image Available 10600 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Har Kanwal Singh Bakshi
10601 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Rajinder Pal Singh	No Image Available 10602 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Squadron Leader Man Mohan Varma Died in Service on 23 Aug 80	10603 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Madhavakrishna Karan Naidu	No Image Available 10604 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Balchandra Chengapa Karambaya	No Image Available 10605 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Adi Shankar Panda
No Image Available 10606 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Dipak Kumar Ghosh Roy	No Image Available 10607 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Ramesh Kumar Pathak	No Image Available 10608 GD(P) Flying Officer Gurharnarinder Singh Roddey	No Image Available 10609 GD(P) Flying Officer Gauri Shankar Singh Died in Service on 09 Dec 67	No Image Available 10610 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Devendra Kumar Mathur
10611 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Wing Commander Terence Chowfin

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