AFS Hakimpet Date Raised : 1983-10-01 Location : Hakimpet Hakimpet was first revived as a training airfield in the Autumn of 1951 with the establishment of the Conversion Training Units (CTU). The CTU operated Spitfire T Mk IX s , Spitfire XVIIIs and Tempest IIs to impart fighter conversion training to newly commissioned pilots of the IAF (Starting with the 55th Pilots Course (PC)). CTU was re-designated as Jet Training Wing (JTW) in 1958 with the phasing out of all Piston engine fighters in the IAF. A second JTW was set up in Bidar after the Indo-China border conflict and both JTWs at Hakimpet and Bidar were redesignated as No.1 JTW and No.2 JTW respectively. But by 1968, Jet training was again bought under the sole purview of Hakimpet and both JTWs were merged together to form the 'Fighter Training Wing' (FTW). In 1983, FTW Hakimpet was redesignated as a full fledged station and renamed Air Force Station Hakimpet (AFS Hakimpet) to be commanded by an Air Commodore. Its lodger Unitss include 44 R&SU, HTS, 43 ED, TETTRA School and 250 SU
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Oct 83 to 16 Dec 84 | Group Captain Sherwin Derek Leslie Tully | 5270 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Hakimpet | |
17 Dec 84 to 09 Feb 86 | Air Commodore Sherwin Derek Leslie Tully | 5270 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
10 Feb 86 to 14 Feb 88 | Air Commodore Vincent Pais | 5274 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
15 Feb 88 to 01 Jul 90 | Air Commodore Ranjit Kumar Malhotra | 6513 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
02 Jul 90 to 01 Jan 92 | Air Commodore Prakash Sadashivrao Pingale | 6755 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
10 Feb 92 to 02 Jan 94 | Air Commodore Aditya Vikram Pethia | 8384 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
03 Jan 94 to 01 Jan 95 | Air Commodore Sivaramakrishnan Kalyanaraman | 7704 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
02 Jan 95 to 04 Jan 97 | Air Commodore Jaswant Singh | 8755 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
05 Jan 97 to 29 Feb 00 | Air Commodore Satinder Lal Sud | 11317 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
01 Mar 00 to 18 Aug 01 | Air Commodore Mohan Dikshit | 11309 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
03 Dec 01 to 30 Jun 02 | Air Commodore Vinod Kumar Verma | 11638 GD(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
01 Jul 02 to 01 Jan 04 | Air Commodore Karunakaran Gopa Kumar | 13391 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
02 Jan 04 to 21 Jun 05 | Air Commodore Rakesh Kacker | 12951 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
21 Jun 05 to 01 Apr 07 | Air Commodore Prakash Babulal Patel | 14555 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
02 Apr 07 to 30 Apr 09 | Air Commodore Naseem Akhtar | 14279 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
01 May 09 to 13 Jun 10 | Air Commodore Paramjit Singh Mann | 15570 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
28 Jun 10 to 01 May 11 | Air Commodore Sanjay Nimesh | 17862 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
02 May 11 to 23 Jun 13 | Air Commodore Dinesh Kumar Awasthi | 18079 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
24 Jun 13 to 22 Dec 15 | Air Commodore Sanjeev Raj | 18276 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
23 Dec 15 to 07 Jul 17 | Air Commodore Hardeep Bains | 19180 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
17 Jul 17 to 05 May 19 | Air Commodore Rajiv Kumar Obheroi | 18784 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet | |
06 May 19 to 23 Aug 20 | Air Commodore Kariat Vadukkoote Surendran Nair | 19528 F(P) | AOC | Hakimpet |