Advance HQ, Eastern Air Command Date Raised : 1971-07-07 Location : Calcutta Air Force Liaison Cell at Fort William Calcutta existed in June 1963. However, its exact date of formation remains unclear as it seems a setup of the same nature existed in Shillong prior to June 1963 and may have moved to Calcutta when HQ EAC moved to Shillong. In July 1971, this cell was redesignated as Advance HQ, Eastern Air Command. Till 1986 it had 2 TAC's under its command. On raising of 3 Corps in 1986, another TAC at Dimapur was setup.
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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01 Apr 61 to 02 Mar 62 | Air Commodore Kanwar Jaswant Singh | 1587 GD(P) | AOC | Shillong | |
03 Mar 62 to 09 Jun 63 | Air Commodore Teja Singh Virk | 1621 GD(O) | AOC | Shillong | |
07 Jul 71 to 14 Dec 73 | Air Commodore Solomon Purushottam | 1928 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
17 Dec 73 to 31 Dec 75 | Air Commodore Harbinder Singh Bedi | 3324 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
01 Jan 76 to 31 Jan 78 | Air Commodore Madhu Sudan Ray | 3469 GD(N) | AOC | Calcutta | |
23 Jun 78 to 02 Jan 79 | Air Commodore Surendra Nath Kawlra | 3945 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
02 Jan 79 to 09 Sep 79 | Air Commodore Venkataraman Srinivas Iyer | 4330 GD(N) | AOC | Calcutta | |
10 Sep 79 to 09 Aug 81 | Air Commodore Manish Kumar Rudra | 4358 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
10 Aug 81 to 31 Dec 84 | Air Commodore Ramachandra Shenoy Sudhakaran | 4780 GD(N) | AOC | Calcutta | |
29 Mar 85 to 04 Feb 86 | Air Commodore Sindhaghatta Subbaramu | 5371 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
05 Feb 86 to 30 Sep 87 | Air Commodore Murari Lal Trehon | 4577 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
01 Oct 87 to 31 Dec 90 | Air Commodore Ranbir Singh Rana | 5106 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
05 Jan 91 to 30 Sep 92 | Air Commodore Tushar Sen | 6006 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
15 Mar 93 to 31 Oct 97 | Air Commodore Rajinder Mohan Singh Datta | 8711 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
01 Nov 97 to 23 Dec 98 | Air Commodore Sadhashivan Radhakrishnan | 12408 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
24 Dec 98 to 31 Aug 99 | Air Commodore Prakash Narayandas Devy | 8745 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
20 Dec 99 to 22 Mar 03 | Air Commodore Manovinder Shamsher Bahadur Singh Jauhar | 12201 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
28 Apr 03 to 08 Dec 03 | Air Commodore Devdas Banerjee | 12192 GD(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
12 Jan 04 to 30 Apr 06 | Air Commodore Krishna Kumar Swaminathan | 13251 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
17 Jul 06 to 26 Apr 07 | Air Commodore Ramesh Rai | 14669 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
30 Jul 07 to 31 Jul 09 | Air Commodore Dilip Dinkar Mandpe | 13937 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
03 Aug 09 to 31 Jul 10 | Air Commodore Bhabani Charan Talukdar | 13923 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
06 Dec 10 to 01 Jul 12 | Air Commodore Bavisetti Chandrasekhar | 17726 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
02 Jul 12 to 31 Dec 14 | Air Vice Marshal Harinder Jeet Walia | 16418 F(N) | AOC | Calcutta | |
01 Jan 15 to 15 May 16 | Air Vice Marshal Kalarikal Puttur Unnikrishnan Nair | 17023 F(N) | AOC | Calcutta | |
16 May 16 to 30 Apr 18 | Air Vice Marshal Vikram Singh | 17699 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
28 May 18 to 19 Jun 19 | Air Vice Marshal Dinesh Kumar Awasthi | 18079 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
20 Jun 19 to | Air Vice Marshal Guttikonda Amara Prasad Babu | 17714 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
01 Sep 21 to | Air Vice Marshal Awadesh Kumar Bharti | 18781 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta | |
01 Feb 23 to | Air Vice Marshal Rahul Bhasin | 20745 F(P) | AOC | Calcutta |