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 No.41 Squadron Otters Motto : Samay Par Sahayta ( Help on time) Date Raised : 1958-03-01 Location : Palam Raised on 01 Mar 1958 at Jodhpur, this Units was equipped with Stol DXE-3 (Otter) aircraft. The sqn is assigned a wide spectrum of tasks like Logistics Air Support, Communication Duties, Casualty Evacuation, Para Dropping, Supply Dropping and Aerial Photography. When the need arose aircraft from the Units were also converted as aerial gunships. During peace it undertook communication duties and rendered valuable assistance to the civil government during natural calamities. The Units has played active role in Goa Liberation, Indo China war and Indo Pak wars. '65 & '71. With the phasing out of Otters in 1984, the squadron became the first Units to induct Dornier aircraft in the IAF Inventory. Avro aircraft joined the squadron in 1996, making it the only IAF Units to have both light and medium transport aircraft on its strength. The Sqn moved to Adampur and Sarsawa for a while before moving to present location, Delhi in 1988.
Aircraft Types operated over the years: |
Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Mar 58 to 07 Oct 59 | Squadron Leader George Christadoss Vithuasiromony Nallayya | 2770 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 08 Oct 59 to 02 Feb 60 | Squadron Leader Appasaheb Bhagwant Patil | 3242 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 03 Mar 60 to 24 Jun 60 | Squadron Leader Narendra Bahadur Singh | 2971 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 25 Jun 60 to 10 Dec 61 | Squadron Leader Jaswant Singh Chamba | 3210 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 11 Dec 61 to 25 Dec 61 | Squadron Leader Satindra Kumar Trehan | 3572 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 26 Feb 62 to 26 Mar 63 | Squadron Leader Gursewak Singh Sidhu | 3418 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 01 Jul 63 to 01 Oct 64 | Flight Lieutenant Yoginder Nath Kapoor | 5061 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 26 Nov 64 to 02 Jun 67 | Squadron Leader Reginald Trevor Oliver | 4498 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 03 Jun 67 to 11 May 68 | Squadron Leader Baldev Singh | 5007 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 19 Jun 68 to 20 Apr 71 | Squadron Leader Indu Virmani | 4682 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 21 Apr 71 to 14 Jul 74 | Squadron Leader Samarendra Chakravarty | 5189 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 15 Jul 74 to 20 Jul 77 | Squadron Leader Bandi Kesava Rao Sunder | 8201 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 21 Jul 77 to 10 Apr 79 | Squadron Leader Prithipal Singh Bhachu | 5793 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 16 Apr 79 to 05 Apr 81 | Squadron Leader Alan Rajasooriya Chatterjee | 11052 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 06 Apr 81 to 20 Oct 83 | Wing Commander Prakash Dattatraya Lothe | 7436 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 21 Oct 83 to 17 Nov 85 | Wing Commander Udiyanda Muthanna Kushalapa | 10177 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 18 Nov 85 to 08 Aug 88 | Wing Commander Mohinder Singh Randhawa | 9398 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 09 Aug 88 to 30 Jun 91 | Wing Commander Anil Kumar Gajadhar Prasad Mishra | 9780 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 01 Jul 91 to 30 Nov 93 | Group Captain Dinesh Chander Bhardwaj | 9545 GD(P) | CO |  | |
| 01 Dec 93 to 10 Sep 95 | Group Captain Arvind Rai Narang | 11022 GD(P) | CO | ||
| 11 Sep 95 to 29 Jun 97 | Wing Commander Mukul Goyal | 15404 F(P) | CO |  | |
| 30 Jun 97 to | Wing Commander Shankar Kumar Dey | 15554 F(P) | CO | ||
| 01 May 01 to | Wing Commander Vipin Indira Panabhan Nayar | 16829 F(P) | CO |  | |
| Unknown to | Wing Commander Jagbir Singh Johar | 18254 F(P) | CO |  | |
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