Maintenance Command


Date Raised : 1955-01-26 Location : Nagpur
Maintenance Command was raised as Maintenance Group at Chakeri in Kanpur in 195. in 1955, It was designated as Maintenance Command. Its current headquarters is located at Vayusena Nagar in Nagpur (Maharashtra).
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Commanding Officers

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DatesRank & NameNumberRemarksLocationPhoto
26 Jan 55 to 23 Mar 58Group Captain Harjinder Singh1963 ENGAOC-in-CKanpur
24 Mar 58 to 14 May 59Air Commodore Harjinder Singh1963 ENGAOC-in-CKanpur
15 May 59 to 02 Aug 63Air Vice Marshal Harjinder Singh1963 ENGAOC-in-CKanpur
03 Aug 63 to 17 Feb 67Air Vice Marshal Om Prakash Mehra1639 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
18 Feb 67 to 31 Mar 68Air Vice Marshal Hirendra Nath Chatterjee1620 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Apr 68 to 23 Mar 71Air Vice Marshal Hari Chand Dewan1598 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
24 Mar 71 to 31 Mar 73Air Marshal Gurbachan Singh1779 EQPTAOC-in-CNagpur
01 Apr 73 to 29 Feb 76Air Marshal Anand Ramdas Pandit1707 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Mar 76 to 19 May 77Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif1804 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
20 May 77 to 31 Jul 78Air Marshal Devaiah Subia1866 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
24 Aug 78 to 19 Jan 79Air Marshal Jafar Zaheer3173 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
22 Feb 79 to 29 Feb 80Air Marshal Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis2964 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
18 Apr 80 to 13 Jan 81Air Marshal Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole3652 GD(P)AOC-in-CNagpur
14 Jan 81 to 31 Jan 85Air Marshal Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra3831 GD(N)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Feb 85 to 31 Dec 85Air Marshal Satish Chandra Lal3793 SIGSAOC-in-CNagpur
01 Jan 86 to 31 Oct 87Air Marshal Madan Lal Sethi4009 GD(N)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Nov 87 to 30 Apr 89Air Marshal Kuldip Singh Bhatia4139 SIGSAOC-in-CNagpur
01 May 89 to 31 Jan 91Air Marshal Sibaprasad Chakrabarti4528 ARMTAOC-in-CNagpur
01 Feb 91 to 30 Jun 93Air Marshal Indrakanty Gopala Krishna5398 ENGAOC-in-CNagpur
01 Jul 93 to 31 Dec 94Air Marshal Rajamani Ramamurthy5614 ENGAOC-in-CNagpur
01 Jan 95 to 31 Oct 96Air Marshal Ramesh Chandra Bajpai5967 SIGSAOC-in-CNagpur
01 Nov 96 to 31 Jul 97Air Marshal Ghanshyam Gururani6387 ENGAOC-in-CNagpur
01 Aug 97 to 30 Apr 02Air Marshal Shanti Swaroop Gupta6805 ENGAOC-in-CNagpur
01 May 02 to 30 Apr 04Air Marshal Dinesh Chandra Nigam7938 SIGSAOC-in-CNagpur
06 Jul 04 to 30 Apr 05Air Marshal Vijay Adhyutrao Patkar8632 SIGSAOC-in-CNagpur
16 May 05 to 31 Mar 07Air Marshal Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi12100 AE(L)AOC-in-CNagpur
02 Apr 07 to 30 Nov 07Air Marshal Jayant Satchidanand Apte11900 AE(L)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Dec 07 to 31 Mar 09Air Marshal Gautam Nayyar13024 AE(M)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Apr 09 to 31 Aug 11Air Marshal Pramod Vasant Athawale13472 AE(L)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Sep 11 to 30 Jun 13Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra14613 AE(L)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Jul 13 to 30 Nov 14Air Marshal Packiriswamy Kanakaraj15066 AE(M)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Dec 14 to 31 Mar 16Air Marshal Jagjeet Singh14814 AE(L)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Apr 16 to 31 May 17Air Marshal Pankaj Aneja15975 AE(M)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Jun 17 to 31 Jan 19Air Marshal Hemant Sharma15941 AE(L)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Feb 19 to 31 Dec 19Air Marshal Raj Karan Singh Shera16315 AE(L)AOC-in-CNagpur
01 Jan 20 to 31 May 22Air Marshal Shashiker Choudhary17645 AE(M)AOC-in-CNagpur
14 Jun 22 to Air Marshal Vibhas Pande17647 AE(M)AOC-in-CNagpur

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