3 Base Repair Depot Date Raised : 1962-02-01 Location : Chandigarh Overhaul requirement of transport and helicopter fleet of the IAF necessitated setting up of No. 3 Base Repair Depot at Chandigarh on 20 Aug 1962. Group Captain TMJ Kriplani, the Depot’s first Commanding Officer, set up the requisite facilities with Russian collaboration and commenced the first overhaul of the IL-14 transport aircraft and the Mi-4 helicopter. With induction of new helicopters in IAF, the Depot graduated to overhaul of Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters. In fact, the Depot has today become the knowledge base for all Russian helicopters, and has undertaken number of tasks like life extension of Mi-25 helicopters, repair of Mi-26 helicopters and upgrade of Mi-35 helicopters. 31 ED merged into 3 BRD.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Aug 62 to 01 Jun 66 | Group Captain Mangho Jeramdas Kripalani | 2395 ENG | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
01 Jun 66 to 01 Apr 67 | Group Captain Satgur Saran Singh | 2606 ENG | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
01 Apr 67 to 01 Aug 68 | Group Captain Sadashiv Wamanrao Desai | 3501 ENG | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
01 Aug 68 to 01 Sep 72 | Group Captain Jagdish Chandra Varma | 3788 ENG | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
01 Oct 72 to 01 Jun 75 | Group Captain Manakal Narayana Iyer Sundaresan | 3785 ENG | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
01 Jun 75 to 01 Aug 76 | Group Captain Jagjit Singh Sandhawalia | 3810 ENG | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
01 Aug 76 to 01 Aug 78 | Group Captain Gowrishankar Narayan Baindur | 4064 ENG | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
01 Aug 78 to 01 Mar 81 | Air Commodore Prabhakar Gajanan Joshi | 4063 ENG | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 May 81 to 01 Oct 83 | Air Commodore Lakkamsetti Ramakrishna | 4266 ENG | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Oct 83 to 01 Nov 86 | Air Commodore Uttam Khushalani | 4959 ARMT | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Nov 86 to 01 Jan 89 | Air Commodore Charanjit Lal Mago | 6309 ENG | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Jan 89 to 01 Dec 89 | Air Commodore Manjit Singh Mann | 5838 ARMT | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Jan 90 to 01 Jan 93 | Air Commodore Ghanshyam Gururani | 6387 ENG | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Feb 93 to 01 Oct 94 | Air Commodore Naresh Chand Jain | 7065 ENG | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Nov 94 to 01 Feb 97 | Air Commodore Avinash Pandurang Valavade | 8500 ENG | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Mar 97 to 01 Jan 98 | Air Commodore Jaspal Singh Kalra | 7999 ARMT | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Jan 98 to 03 Jan 01 | Air Commodore Arvinda Agrawal | 11502 AE(M) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
04 Jan 01 to 01 Nov 01 | Air Commodore Ambrish Kumar | 11547 AE(L) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
02 Nov 01 to 30 Sep 03 | Air Commodore Shakti Bhushan Prashar | 12442 AE(M) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Oct 03 to 30 Sep 05 | Air Commodore Sant Prakash Singh Virk | 13491 AE(L) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Oct 05 to 30 Aug 07 | Air Commodore Ravi Kant Srivastava | 13312 AE(L) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
31 Aug 07 to 16 Aug 09 | Air Commodore Subhash Chandra Luthra | 15105 AE(L) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
17 Aug 09 to 25 Apr 11 | Air Commodore Ravinder Sharma | 15646 AE(M) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
25 Apr 11 to 01 May 11 | Group Captain Suresh Singh | 16941 AE(L) | Stn Cdr | Chandigarh | |
02 May 11 to 06 May 13 | Air Commodore Suresh Singh | 16941 AE(L) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
06 May 13 to 30 Nov 14 | Air Commodore Arun Kumar Barik | 17122 AE(M) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Dec 14 to 30 Jun 16 | Air Commodore Pramod Madhukar Puranik | 17652 AE(M) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
01 Jul 16 to 31 Dec 18 | Air Commodore Sanjeeva Sinha | 17626 AE(M) | AOC | Chandigarh | |
06 Jan 21 to 17 Jul 22 | Air Commodore Vikram Rajasekhar | 19714 AE(M) | AOC | Chandigarh |