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501 Signal Unit Mad Bees Motto : Satatam Tatparah (Always Alert) Date Raised : 1964-10-25 Location : Barnala Raised on 5 Oct 1964 at 9 Wing, AF, the Units shifted to Barnala in May 1965 operating the Star Sapphire radar. Converted to the THD radar in Jan 1981. The Units underwent renaming to 42 Signal Units in Sept 1982, and became to be known as MADBEES - for Master of Air Defence - Barnala. The Units reverted back to 501 SU in Sept 1991.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 05 Oct 64 to 30 Nov 64 | Wing Commander Satish Chand | 3555 SIGS | Stn Cdr | Barnala | |
| 01 Dec 64 to 28 Feb 65 | Group Captain John Dunbar Aquino | 1777 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 01 Mar 65 to 02 Apr 67 | Group Captain Churukara George Immanuel Phillip | 1927 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 03 Apr 67 to 15 Jun 69 | Group Captain Meghashyama Sadanand Dandekar | 3201 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 16 Aug 69 to 13 Jun 71 | Group Captain Bharat Singh | 3582 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 14 Jun 71 to 06 Jan 74 | Group Captain Kottavathukal Thomas Abraham | 3600 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 07 Jan 74 to 31 Aug 74 | Group Captain Kirpal Singh Sufi | 3952 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 01 Sep 74 to 25 May 76 | Group Captain Kanwal Krishan Malik | 4335 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 25 May 76 to 09 Apr 78 | Group Captain Gandharva Sen | 4429 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 10 Apr 78 to 01 Jan 81 | Group Captain Akbar Singh Bains | 4882 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 02 Jan 81 to 08 Jan 84 | Group Captain Om Prakash Sharma | 5104 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 09 Jan 84 to 30 Sep 86 | Group Captain Ravinder Kumar | 5315 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 01 Oct 86 to 14 Mar 88 | Group Captain Sitaramaiah Pingali | 7674 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 15 Mar 88 to 28 Apr 91 | Group Captain Subhash Chandra Rastogi | 8999 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 29 Apr 91 to 18 Apr 94 | Group Captain Jayachand Joseph Williams | 10188 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala | |
| 18 Apr 94 to 05 Jan 97 | Group Captain P Singh | Stn Cdr | Barnala | ||
| 06 Jan 97 to 31 Mar 99 | Group Captain Pradeep Sharma | 13777 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala | |
| 03 May 99 to 30 Nov 01 | Group Captain Ranjan Bhattacharya | 13139 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 01 Dec 01 to 07 Aug 02 | Wing Commander S S Rana | Stn Cdr | Barnala | ||
| 08 Aug 02 to 18 May 03 | Group Captain Rohit Verma | 16029 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 19 May 03 to 09 Oct 04 | Group Captain P Kumar VSM | Stn Cdr | Barnala | ||
| 16 Nov 04 to 15 Oct 06 | Group Captain Shirish Baban Deo | 15681 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 16 Oct 06 to 02 Dec 07 | Group Captain Sardar Harpal Singh | 16071 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 03 Dec 07 to 16 Aug 09 | Group Captain Dilip Kumar Patnaik | 17464 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 24 Aug 09 to 19 Sep 11 | Group Captain Kirti Khajuria | 19538 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 15 Apr 13 to 17 May 15 | Group Captain Manish Kumar Gupta | 20439 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
| 22 May 17 to 21 Oct 18 | Group Captain Prasant Sarad Wadodkar | 20741 F(P) | Stn Cdr | Barnala |  |
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