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AFS Suryalanka Date Raised : 1967-09-01 Location : Suryalanka Suryalanka means the "island of the Surya" and was formed as IAF's Missile firing range. It was initially formed as a C&MU and became a station in July 1969 which housed the 259 SU with a P-30 Radar. The role was enhanced to provide facilities for firing GW for Army and Air Force. In Dec 1975 the first station commander took over on being made a permanent establishment. While earlier under the command of CAC, it moved to SAC when SAC was formed in 1984.
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| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Dec 75 to 30 Jan 77 | Wing Commander Rip Daman Singh Bhandari | 4569 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 31 Jan 77 to 07 Oct 79 | Wing Commander Shiv Nath Rathour | 5580 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 08 Oct 79 to 30 Jun 82 | Wing Commander Jagbir Singh Rai | 6507 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 14 Jul 82 to 13 Oct 85 | Wing Commander Daljit Singh Chaudhry | 8115 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka | |
| 14 Oct 85 to 05 Nov 87 | Group Captain Harbans Perminder Singh | 7485 GD(N) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 23 Nov 87 to 31 May 88 | Group Captain Charanjit Singh Sandhu | 5591 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 03 Oct 88 to 28 Apr 91 | Group Captain Henery Osborne Robey | 10166 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 29 Apr 91 to 17 Jul 94 | Group Captain Sushil Kumar Sangar | 7680 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka | |
| 18 Jul 94 to 21 Sep 97 | Group Captain Vipin Channa | 10960 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 22 Sep 97 to 23 Jun 00 | Group Captain Ramesh Malhotra | 13590 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 17 Jul 00 to 30 Apr 02 | Group Captain Ajay Kumar Bugnait | 14673 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka | |
| 08 Jul 02 to 25 Apr 04 | Group Captain Meetak Kumar Behl | 16216 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka | |
| 26 Apr 04 to 09 Jul 06 | Group Captain Ravinder Singh Gill | 15059 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka | |
| 10 Jul 06 to 30 Jun 09 | Group Captain Rajesh Kumar | 15187 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 01 Jul 09 to 10 Jul 12 | Group Captain Amrinder Singh Gill | 17317 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 11 Jul 12 to 08 Jun 14 | Group Captain Ram Kumar Ithikkat | 19915 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
| 16 Jul 18 to 24 May 19 | Group Captain Ramamurthy Muthu Kumarasamy | 21040 F(N) | Stn Cdr | Suryalanka |  |
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