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18 Wing Date Raised : 1962-11-07 Location : Pathankot The saga of Air Force Station Pathankot began with formal sanction of Government of India on 15 Oct 1962. The station came into being on 07 Nov 1962 with tented accommodation and an overlay of PSP sheets for a Runway. Air Force Station Pathankot started its journey as a transport base initially to provide logistic support to Unitss in J&K area. However due to the strategic location of the base the station soon became a fighter base with the deployment of Gnat, Vampire and Mystere fighter aircraft. Soon the subsonic aircraft were replaced by the supersonic MIGs. In Mar 79, the Base was upgraded to Air Officer Command. Today Pathankot is a frontline air base which houses a fighter squadron, the first attack helicopter squadron, a Pechora squadron, a transportable Radar Units and Tropo Unitss.
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| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 07 Nov 62 to 13 Aug 64 | Group Captain Solomon Purushottam | 1928 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 14 Aug 64 to 12 Jan 67 | Group Captain Roshan Lal Suri | 2459 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 13 Jan 67 to 13 May 67 | Group Captain Wilbur Desmond McNeill | 2995 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 18 May 67 to 19 Aug 69 | Group Captain Jagdish Raj Bhasin | 3591 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 20 Aug 69 to 03 Dec 71 | Group Captain Meghashyama Sadanand Dandekar | 3201 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 04 Dec 71 to 17 Jan 72 | Group Captain Lakshman Madhav Katre | 3117 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 18 Jan 72 to 04 Sep 72 | Group Captain Meghashyama Sadanand Dandekar | 3201 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot | |
| 05 Sep 72 to 19 May 74 | Group Captain Jagdish Chandra Sengupta | 3657 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 20 May 74 to 01 Jul 75 | Group Captain Gunakar Kamalkar Bakhle | 4204 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 20 Jul 75 to 22 Jan 77 | Group Captain Jayaram Nilkanth Jatar | 4040 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 23 Jan 77 to 28 Jul 78 | Group Captain Ramanathan Sundaresan | 4574 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 21 Sep 78 to 25 Mar 79 | Group Captain Denzil Edward Satur | 4339 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Pathankot |  |
| 26 Mar 79 to 02 Jan 81 | Air Commodore Denzil Edward Satur | 4339 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot | |
| 03 Jan 81 to 15 Oct 82 | Air Commodore Gandharva Sen | 4429 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 16 Oct 82 to 15 Apr 84 | Air Commodore Pondicherry Jayarao Jayakumar | 5037 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 16 Apr 84 to 24 Sep 86 | Air Commodore Bir Inder Singh | 5040 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 25 Sep 86 to 27 Jan 89 | Air Commodore Thupakulu Narasimhulu Bhavani Shankar | 5060 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 13 Feb 89 to 14 Mar 91 | Air Commodore Milind Shankar | 6130 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 15 May 91 to 30 Sep 93 | Air Commodore Amitava Chakladar | 8132 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 01 Oct 93 to 21 May 95 | Air Commodore Sunil Kumar Malik | 9002 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 28 Aug 95 to 29 Jun 97 | Air Commodore Brijendra Mohan Bali | 8438 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 30 Jun 97 to 14 Jul 98 | Air Commodore Arun Kumar Tiwary | 12194 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 15 Jul 98 to 25 Jun 00 | Air Commodore Pushpendra Singh | 12512 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 26 Jun 00 to 10 Mar 02 | Air Commodore Vivek Kumar Chopra | 12752 GD(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 11 Mar 02 to 02 Nov 03 | Air Commodore Anjan Kumar Gogoi | 13382 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 03 Nov 03 to 01 Jan 06 | Air Commodore Satvir Singh Dhanda | 13926 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 02 Jan 06 to 30 Apr 07 | Air Commodore Ujjal Prabhat Biswas | 14090 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 01 May 07 to 15 Jun 09 | Air Commodore Suneet Shripad Soman | 14681 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 15 Jun 09 to 14 Dec 10 | Air Commodore Nalin Kumar Tandon | 16030 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 15 Dec 10 to 13 Jun 12 | Air Commodore Rajesh Kumar | 16770 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 14 Jun 12 to 13 Jul 14 | Air Commodore Ashok Shrigannavar | 18267 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot | |
| 22 Feb 16 to 13 Aug 17 | Air Commodore Jeetendra Mishra | 18575 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 14 Aug 17 to 31 Mar 19 | Air Commodore Prashant Mohan | 20160 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 01 Apr 19 to | Air Commodore Joy Thomas Kurien | 20782 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
| 10 Dec 21 to | Air Commodore Devendra Parshotam Hirani | 21019 F(P) | AOC | Pathankot |  |
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