51 Air Stores Park Date Raised : 1966-05-01 Location : Digaru Air Force Station Digaru is situated at a distance of 35 km South-East of Guwahati on NH-37 amidst the plains of the Brahmaputra Valley. In the wake of the Chinese aggression in 1962, a 'Forward supply Depot' (SD), an 'Explosive storage Park' (XSP) and a 'Mechanical Transport Repair & storage Units' (MIR & U) were established at Digaru during the period 1963-66. It became a full-fledged station in August 1969. This base Played a very vital supporting role in the 1971 operations. Air Force school was established out of the war Booty Fund in May 1982. An explosives Museum was established in 1986. in 1966 FSD was renamed as 51ASP and XSP as 52ASP. 51 and 52 ASP merged in 1977 and 52 ASP ceased to exist
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Commanding Officers | |||||
Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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05 Feb 64 to 11 Dec 64 | Wing Commander Palamadai Subbir Sankara Narayanan | 2668 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
15 Apr 65 to 22 Jul 65 | Wing Commander Sailesh Chandra Malakar | 3536 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
01 Aug 65 to 04 Jun 67 | Wing Commander Sunil Kumar Basack | 3502 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
05 Jun 67 to 05 May 68 | Wing Commander Madhakar Krishnarao Shirpurkar | 3764 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
06 May 68 to 02 Jul 70 | Wing Commander Nitai Lal Pramanik | 2793 A&SD | CO | Digaru | |
01 Aug 70 to 30 Jun 72 | Wing Commander Shanker Govind Chitnis | 3763 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
01 Aug 72 to 08 Dec 73 | Wing Commander Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal | 3762 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
29 Jan 74 to 25 Jul 76 | Wing Commander Kailash Shanker | 4189 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
26 Jul 76 to 27 Aug 79 | Wing Commander Raminder Singh | 4457 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
28 Dec 79 to 29 Nov 81 | Wing Commander Chittaranjan | 5899 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
30 Nov 81 to 19 Jan 84 | Wing Commander Vinod Singh Rawat | 6043 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
20 Jan 84 to 17 Oct 85 | Group Captain Kilara Vamanet Iya | 5813 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
18 Oct 85 to 05 May 88 | Group Captain Rameshwar Dayal Vinayak | 5897 EQPT | CO | Digaru | |
06 May 88 to 09 Sep 90 | Group Captain #N/A | CO | Digaru | ||
10 Sep 90 to 31 Oct 93 | Group Captain #N/A | CO | Digaru | ||
11 Apr 94 to 17 Mar 96 | Group Captain #N/A | CO | Digaru | ||
18 Mar 96 to 11 Oct 98 | Group Captain #N/A | CO | Digaru | ||
12 Oct 98 to 18 Jun 00 | Group Captain #N/A | CO | Digaru | ||
19 Jun 00 to 09 Feb 03 | Group Captain Arabida Mohanty | 13414 LGS | CO | Digaru | |
10 Feb 03 to 13 Jul 05 | Group Captain Ved Mitra Upadhyay | 14055 LGS | CO | Digaru | |
14 Jul 05 to 30 Sep 06 | Group Captain Paramasivan Murthy | 13679 LGS | CO | Digaru | |
01 Oct 06 to 30 Jun 07 | Group Captain Kunnapully Mohamed Gaffar | 15000 F(N) | CO | Digaru | |
01 Jul 07 to 10 May 09 | Group Captain Ashok Vardhan | 14973 LGS | CO | Digaru | |
11 May 09 to 12 Jun 11 | Group Captain Sanjay Aneja | 17234 LGS | CO | Digaru | |
13 Jun 11 to 05 May 13 | Group Captain Jagdish Kumar Raval | 18175 LGS | CO | Digaru |