No.220 Squadron Desert Tigers Motto : Shauryam Tejo Dhritih ( Valour, Energy and Firmness) Date Raised : 1957-12-23 Location : Halwara 220 Squadron, AF was formed at 2 Wing, Air Force Station Pune on 9 jan 63. Initially located at Palam as 51 Auxillary Air Force (AAF) Squadron and equipped with Vampire aircraft. The squadron, later re-equipped with the 'Indigenous HF-24 Marut' in April 1969 and flew the Marut in the 1971 Indo-Pak War. In June 1981, the squadron converted onto the MiG-23BN. Moved to halwara in 1997. numberplated in 25. resurrected on 1 sep 11
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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09 Feb 63 to 14 Sep 65 | Squadron Leader Norman Foster Watts | 3956 GD(P) | CO | Pune | |
11 Apr 66 to 04 Aug 68 | Squadron Leader Mohan Vasudeo Kashikar | 4801 GD(P) | CO | Pune | |
05 Aug 68 to 07 Apr 69 | Squadron Leader Onkar Nath Kacker | 4605 GD(P) | CO | Pune | |
21 Aug 69 to 02 Mar 72 | Wing Commander Ranjit Dhawan | 4572 GD(P) | CO | Pune/ Jodhpur | |
03 Mar 72 to 19 May 74 | Wing Commander Madhukar Shantaram Jatar | 4793 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
20 May 74 to 14 Jun 76 | Wing Commander Krishna Narayana Pillai | 4874 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
15 Jun 76 to 29 Apr 79 | Wing Commander Vishnu Narain Johri | 5676 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
30 Apr 79 to 04 Jan 81 | Wing Commander Iqbal Singh Bindra | 6360 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
05 Jan 81 to 01 May 83 | Wing Commander Vinod Kumar Bhatia | 6497 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
02 May 83 to 24 Apr 85 | Wing Commander Man Mohan Kapoor | 9522 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
25 Apr 85 to 28 Jun 87 | Wing Commander Syed Mohammed Ghouse | 10896 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
29 Jun 87 to 26 Jun 89 | Wing Commander Neeraj Sharma | 11861 GD(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
27 Jun 89 to 16 Jun 91 | Wing Commander Paramjit Singh Bhangu | 12932 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
17 Jun 91 to 25 Jul 93 | Wing Commander Vikas Krishna Rao Yajurvedi | 13248 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
26 Jul 93 to 07 Jul 95 | Wing Commander Atul Saikia | 13585 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur | |
08 May 95 to 24 May 97 | Wing Commander Devinder Singh | 14284 F(P) | CO | Jodhpur/ Halwara | |
25 Mar 97 to 18 Apr 99 | Wing Commander Perumpillabil Narayanan Radha Govind | 15019 F(P) | CO | Halwara | |
19 Apr 99 to 15 Aug 01 | Wing Commander Rakesh Marwaha | 15865 F(P) | CO | Halwara | |
16 Aug 01 to 14 May 03 | Wing Commander Vivek | 16560 F(P) | CO | Halwara | |
15 May 03 to 30 Jun 05 | Wing Commander Banerjee | CO | Halwara | ||
01 Sep 11 to 01 Apr 13 | Wing Commander Sharad Aneja | 22677 F(P) | CO | Halwara | |
01 Apr 13 to | Group Captain Sharad Aneja | 22677 F(P) | CO | Halwara | |
Unknown to | Group Captain Manoj Nair | 23725 F(P) | CO | Halwara |