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No.50 Squadron Date Raised : 1964-11-01 Location : Chandigarh Raised as a SA-2 SAGW Unit. Became the first SA-2 unit to be operational in IAF in Feb 1965 with establishment of 15 officers. It was deployed in Delhi area during the 1965 ops and at Adampur during the 1971 Ops. It was assigned 8 live targets during the war. It engaged one aircraft and fired two missiles but could not claim any kills.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Nov 64 to 12 Sep 65 | Wing Commander N V Modak | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | ||
| 13 Sep 65 to 20 Mar 66 | Wing Commander Iype Kovoor | 3869 GD(P) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) |  |
| 21 Mar 66 to 30 Nov 67 | Wing Commander Gursewak Singh Sidhu | 3418 GD(P) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) |  |
| 01 Dec 67 to 15 Feb 71 | Wing Commander Sailendra Nath Bhattacharjee | 3835 GD(N) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) |  |
| 16 Feb 71 to 15 Oct 73 | Wing Commander Narendra Kumar Bali | 4567 GD(N) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | |
| 16 Oct 73 to 14 Mar 76 | Wing Commander Ramesh Chandra | 4030 GD(P) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | |
| 15 Mar 76 to 21 Jun 78 | Wing Commander Yoginder Nath Kapoor | 5061 GD(P) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | |
| 22 Jun 78 to 22 Oct 79 | Wing Commander Pratap Singh Negi | 4868 GD(N) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | |
| 10 Dec 79 to 29 Jan 81 | Wing Commander Sethuramalingam Athmanathan | 5774 GD(N) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) |  |
| 16 Feb 81 to 20 Feb 84 | Wing Commander Ashokkumar Arjundev Acharya | 7469 GD(N) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | |
| 20 Feb 84 to 20 Feb 84 | Wing Commander Uma Shankar | 9021 GD(P) | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | |
| 02 Jun 86 to 11 Apr 90 | Wing Commander I Singh | CO | Rajpura (Chandigarh) | ||
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