10 Wing Date Raised : 1952-08-01 Location : Jorhat AFS Jorhat was formed in August 1952 as the first AFS in eastern Sector. The station was designated as 10 Wing in 1958. The history of aviation in Jorhat and the North- East, dates back to the year 1928, when the first aeroplane a GI-AA-X, piloted by Barnard Leete, landed on the grounds of the Jorhat Gymkhana Club to carry a passenger to Calcutta. The Gymkhana Club (the third oldest in the world) and the field on which the aircraft landed, still exist and all the officers of Air Force Station Jorhat are members of the Club. After World War Il broke out in September 1939, the RAF took over the wasteland of Rowariah Tea Estate from district authorities to build an airfield. Till then, the present airfield area, West of Railway Line was known as Poki-Muri Tapari. Rowariah airfield was handed over to the USAF by the RAF to lift military stores to China. The USAF took over more areas under tea plantation, from Rowariah Tea Estate. The history of Air Transport Support, the IAF's lift force, dates back to 1941 when the China-Burma- India theatre opened up. The India China Station Air Transport Command or ICWATC first came up with two Stations, the Assam Station handling the traffic and India Station handling all other operations. Jorhat was Station No. 4 in Assam Station. Eight years after the end of World War Il on August 1, 1952, the Station Dett at Jorhat was upgraded to an independent Station with a permanent detachment of Dakota aircraft from Barrackpore.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Aug 52 to 01 Aug 53 | Squadron Leader Harchand Singh Gill | 2862 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Aug 53 to 01 Oct 53 | Squadron Leader Gurbachan Singh Bhullar | 1870 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Oct 53 to 01 Aug 54 | Squadron Leader Narendra Behari Lall | 1680 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Aug 54 to 01 Feb 57 | Wing Commander Edul Jahangir Dhatigara | 1899 GD(O) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Feb 57 to 01 May 59 | Wing Commander Pothery Charuvary Ramachandran | 3514 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 May 59 to 01 Feb 60 | Wing Commander Christopher Andrew Neelakantan | 1926 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Feb 60 to 01 Oct 62 | Group Captain Waman Raghunath Dani | 1807 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Oct 62 to 01 Jun 65 | Group Captain Amrit Lal Bery | 1861 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Jun 65 to 01 Feb 67 | Group Captain Janardan Ram Chandra Kirloskar | 2857 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Feb 67 to 01 Apr 68 | Group Captain Yeshwant Ramachandra Agtey | 2715 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Apr 68 to 01 Jan 70 | Group Captain Surinder Singh | 3009 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Jan 70 to 01 Dec 71 | Group Captain Chandan Singh | 3460 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
01 Dec 71 to 06 Feb 74 | Group Captain Vir Narain | 4007 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
07 Feb 74 to 28 Sep 75 | Group Captain Ranjit Kumar Kukar | 4103 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
29 Sep 75 to 16 Apr 78 | Group Captain Kailash Chandra Sharma | 4412 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
17 Aug 78 to 27 Apr 80 | Group Captain Gursaran Singh Ahluwalia | 4912 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
28 Aug 80 to 19 Aug 81 | Group Captain Hari Mander Pal Singh Pannu | 5307 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Jorhat | |
20 Aug 81 to 29 Dec 82 | Air Commodore Manish Kumar Rudra | 4358 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
30 Dec 82 to 31 Mar 85 | Air Commodore Keshave Dev Kanagat | 4433 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
01 Apr 85 to 18 Jan 87 | Air Commodore Mangatil Karakad Chandrasekhar | 4720 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
19 Jan 87 to 01 Jan 89 | Air Commodore Dalip Singh Dahiya | 5866 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
02 Jan 89 to 12 Aug 90 | Air Commodore Sowarnjit Singh Dhillon | 5186 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
13 Aug 90 to 22 Nov 92 | Air Commodore Khushindhar Singh Bindra | 6863 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
22 Nov 92 to 04 Jun 95 | Air Commodore Ranjit Kumar Pal | 8666 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
05 Jun 95 to 31 Aug 97 | Air Commodore Peter Keith Pinto | 8419 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
01 Sep 97 to 13 Jun 99 | Air Commodore Sudhir Mohan Sethi | 9479 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
14 Jun 99 to 09 Dec 01 | Air Commodore Ram Mohan Shridharan | 12033 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
10 Dec 01 to 31 Mar 04 | Air Commodore Pravesh Kumar | 12411 GD(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
01 Apr 04 to 01 Jan 06 | Air Commodore Manmohan Sud | 13945 F(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
02 Jan 06 to 31 Jul 07 | Air Commodore Roderick Osbern Joseph Assey | 14108 F(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
01 Aug 07 to 31 Dec 09 | Air Commodore Gurinder Pal Singh | 15417 F(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
01 Jan 10 to 15 May 11 | Air Commodore Potsangbam Ranbir Singh | 16243 F(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
16 May 11 to 24 Apr 12 | Air Commodore Tarun Kumar Sinha | 18084 F(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
25 Apr 12 to 13 Jul 14 | Air Commodore Joseph Vithayathil Paul | 17165 F(P) | AOC | Jorhat | |
14 Jul 14 to 15 Apr 17 | Kiran Prakash Virk | 19218 F(P) | AOC | Jorhat |