2 Forward Base Support Unit Date Raised : 1972-08-07 Disbanded : 1989-04-16 Location : Sirsa Air Force Station Sirsa was established in 1960. Situated on the banks of river Ghaggar, the Station was first designated as 10 C&MU (Care & Maintenance Units) under the command of Flt Lt Patrick, a logistics officer. The first aircraft to land at the airfield was a Dakota' on a runway made of PSP sheets. The concrete runway, PTT and the loops were constructed in 1963.0n 12 Jan 70, the station was redesignated as 5 MEMU (Mobile Echelon Maintenance Units). Two years later in Aug 72, the base was made a Forward Base Support Units and rechristened as 2 Forward Base Supporting Units (FBSU). The FBSU was upgraded in to a full fledged Wing in Apr 89.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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07 Aug 72 to 13 May 73 | Wing Commander Balchandra Shankar Deshmukh | 4489 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
14 May 73 to 30 Apr 75 | Wing Commander Jagdish Chandra Varma | 4251 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
01 May 75 to 01 Jul 77 | Wing Commander Vidya Sagar Chadha | 4587 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
15 Jul 77 to 16 Apr 78 | Wing Commander Suresh Vishnu Ratnaparkhi | 6136 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
17 Apr 78 to 21 Oct 80 | Wing Commander Shrlkrishna Vishnu Phatak | 6358 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
29 Dec 80 to 23 Jan 83 | Wing Commander Prafulla Kumar Rai | 7695 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
15 Mar 82 to 17 Oct 82 | Wing Commander Pritam Singh | 6016 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
18 Oct 82 to 13 Oct 85 | Group Captain Pritam Singh | 6016 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
14 Oct 85 to 27 Sep 87 | Group Captain Gurdip Singh Bal | 7707 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa | |
28 Sep 87 to 16 Apr 89 | Group Captain Tej Mohan Asthana | 7672 GD(P) | CO | Sirsa |