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1 Air Force Selection Board Date Raised : 1962-04-17 Location : Dehradun The institute was initially established as an Experimental Selection Board at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun in 1943. Subsequently, the Board was renamed as No 7 General Selection Board in March 1944, then Royal Indian Air Force Board and moved to its present location at Clement Town in Oct 1948. The board was remaned as Royal indian Air Force Selection Board. Post 26 Jan 1950, it was renamed as Air Force Selection Board. in 1962, with mysore coming up as 2 AFSB, the Units was renamed as 1 AFSB
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Unit previously existed as AFSB
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 17 Apr 62 to 10 Jan 63 | Group Captain Maurice Barker | 1691 GD(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 12 Jan 63 to 19 Aug 64 | Group Captain Panangadan Cheruvari Ramakrishna | 1843 GD(O) | President | Dehradun | |
| 20 Aug 64 to 10 Jan 67 | Group Captain Manohar Maharudrappa Sakhare | 1679 GD(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 11 Jan 67 to 04 Apr 69 | Group Captain Manohar Laxman Kolhatkar | 3378 GD(N) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 12 Apr 69 to 02 Mar 72 | Group Captain Vivek Yeshvant Nehru | 3488 GD(N) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 03 Mar 72 to 20 Aug 72 | Group Captain Rishab Chand Suchanti | 3466 GD(N) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 21 Aug 72 to 25 Jul 75 | Group Captain Ramesh Krishnarao Nagarkatti | 4012 GD(N) | President | Dehradun | |
| 04 Aug 75 to 16 Mar 77 | Group Captain Arvind Dalaya | 4025 GD(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 17 Mar 77 to 31 Oct 78 | Group Captain Abhash Chander Jolly | 4225 GD(P) | President | Dehradun | |
| 12 Apr 79 to 30 Dec 81 | Group Captain Surinder Pal Dhawan | 5298 GD(N) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 31 Dec 81 to 27 Sep 84 | Group Captain Avinash Goswami | 5094 GD(N) | President | Dehradun | |
| 28 Sep 84 to 21 Aug 85 | Group Captain Krishna Kumar | 5096 GD(N) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 22 Aug 85 to 30 Apr 88 | Air Commodore Om Prakash Devgon | 4726 GD(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 30 May 88 to 31 Dec 88 | Air Commodore Harwant Bir Singh | 5065 GD(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 02 Jan 89 to 19 Mar 91 | Air Commodore Shiv Nath Rathour | 5580 GD(N) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 09 Aug 91 to 31 Mar 93 | Air Commodore Vijay Singh Yadava | 6143 GD(P) | President | Dehradun | |
| 01 Apr 94 to 20 Sep 95 | Air Commodore Arun Kumar Das | 7020 GD(P) | President | Dehradun | |
| 21 Sep 95 to 10 Jan 99 | Air Commodore Ashok Kumar Gupta | 8776 GD(P) | President | Dehradun | |
| 11 Jan 99 to 31 Dec 01 | Air Commodore James Arun Benjamin | 11296 GD(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 01 Jan 02 to 27 Apr 03 | Air Commodore Devdas Banerjee | 12192 GD(P) | President | Dehradun | |
| 28 Apr 03 to 30 Nov 05 | Air Commodore Kambiranda Poovaiah Devia | 12949 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 28 Dec 05 to 23 Apr 07 | Air Commodore Rajender Khurana | 13377 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 03 Jul 07 to 08 Nov 09 | Air Commodore Hitesh Hari Bhai Patel | 14271 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 09 Nov 09 to 18 Jul 10 | Air Commodore Pandurang Narayana Pradhan | 16403 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 18 Oct 10 to 31 Jan 12 | Air Commodore George Thomas | 17722 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 01 Feb 12 to 01 Jul 12 | Air Commodore Harinder Jeet Walia | 16418 F(N) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 02 Jul 12 to 13 Jul 14 | Air Commodore Vishwanath Prakash | 17149 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 14 Jul 14 to 21 May 17 | Air Commodore Nitin B Sathe | 17708 F(P) | President | Dehradun | |
| 17 Jul 17 to 19 Mar 19 | Air Commodore Ajay Singh Pathania | 18594 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
| 26 Mar 19 to | Air Commodore Shashi Kant Mishra | 19570 F(P) | President | Dehradun |  |
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