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 Paratrooper Training School Sky hawks Date Raised : 1947-08-14 Location : Agra In October 1941, 50 India Para Brigade was formed with HQ at Delhi and Air Landing School (ALS) at Safdarjung Airport in Delhi. In 1942 ALS was renamed as 3 PTS and moved to Chakalaand understook the first course. A PJI batch started to be given post WWII. At independence, Sqn Ldr TS Gopalan was OC and he moved the Units to Agra. He also contineud to be the CI and CO till 1950. Initially, Dakota, Valencia , Halifax were used by the Units and the Dakota continued to be with the Units till 1966. In 1962 the C-119 Packet was also added to the Units strength
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| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 47 to 01 Apr 50 | Squadron Leader Thirumalai Iyengar Srinivasagopalan | 2661 A&SD | CO | Agra | |
| 02 Apr 50 to 25 May 50 | Wing Commander Yeshwant Vinayak Malse | 1616 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 26 May 50 to 19 Apr 53 | Wing Commander Azeez Lodhie | 1584 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 20 Apr 53 to 29 Mar 54 | Wing Commander Kartik Chandra Sarkar | 1589 GD(O) | CO | Agra |  |
| 30 Mar 54 to 06 Mar 55 | Wing Commander Damodar Madhao Oka | 1813 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 23 Jun 55 to 10 Oct 57 | Wing Commander Ranendu Sen | 1618 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 11 Oct 57 to 05 Mar 59 | Wing Commander Jacob Andrews | 2378 GD(P) | CO | Agra | |
| 06 Mar 59 to 19 Jun 60 | Wing Commander Tekchand Gopaldas Kelly | 1753 GD(O) | CO | Agra |  |
| 20 Jun 60 to 07 Jun 61 | Wing Commander Gurbaksh Singh | 1852 GD(O) | CO | Agra | |
| 19 Jun 61 to 06 Aug 63 | Wing Commander Shanti Pada Dutta | 2000 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 07 Aug 63 to 24 May 65 | Wing Commander Tarit Bhushan Choudhury | 3087 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 07 Jun 65 to 30 Nov 65 | Wing Commander Bheemsen Laxman Shelar | 3648 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 01 Dec 65 to 16 Aug 66 | Wing Commander Angelo Reginald Lobo | 3957 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 02 Sep 66 to 31 May 68 | Wing Commander Surendra Sahney | 3860 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 10 Jun 68 to 28 Mar 71 | Wing Commander Vishnu Bharat Raj Misra | 4354 GD(P) | CO | Agra | |
| 30 Mar 71 to 27 Sep 73 | Wing Commander Suresh Chand | 4585 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 27 Sep 73 to 14 Jun 75 | Wing Commander Melatur Srinivasa Muthuswami | 4714 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 14 Jul 75 to 18 Dec 76 | Wing Commander Shreekant Harishchandra Pednekar | 5035 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 20 Dec 76 to 10 Dec 79 | Wing Commander Nestor Joseph De Conceicao | 5669 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 10 Dec 79 to 27 Oct 80 | Wing Commander Ravinder Kumar Blaggana | 6530 GD(P) | CO | Agra | |
| 27 Oct 80 to 20 Mar 82 | Group Captain Kashi Nath Johry | 4834 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 21 Mar 82 to 03 Jan 84 | Group Captain Diba Kar Ghose | 4797 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 04 Jan 84 to 17 Mar 86 | Group Captain Chitta Ranjan Ghosh | 6141 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 17 Mar 86 to 09 Dec 87 | Group Captain Bandi Kesava Rao Sunder | 8201 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 10 Dec 87 to 08 Apr 90 | Group Captain Ranjit Singh Mann | 7433 GD(P) | CO | Agra | |
| 09 Apr 90 to 27 Dec 92 | Group Captain Pradip Bhagat | 7412 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 28 Dec 92 to 11 Mar 96 | Group Captain Vrittamani Srinivasaiyangar Govindarajan | 12232 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 18 Mar 96 to 25 May 97 | Group Captain Suryakant Nijanand Bal | 10940 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 26 May 97 to 05 Sep 99 | Group Captain Sudhir Kumar Sinha | 14084 F(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 06 Sep 99 to 01 Apr 01 | Group Captain Kulmanbir Singh Hundal | 12784 GD(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 16 Aug 01 to 15 Apr 03 | Group Captain Vinod Kumar Singh | 15192 F(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 16 Apr 03 to 03 Aug 04 | Group Captain Jabli Chandra Sekhar | 16374 F(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 16 Aug 04 to 31 Jul 07 | Group Captain Basant Kumar Desh | 15876 F(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 01 Aug 07 to 01 Jul 08 | Group Captain Joseph Vithayathil Paul | 17165 F(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 02 Jul 08 to 20 Jun 10 | Group Captain Venkataramanan Nagarajan | 16999 F(P) | CO | Agra |  |
| 21 Jun 10 to 29 Apr 12 | Group Captain Bakul Vaikunthrai Upadhyay | 18281 F(P) | CO | Agra |  |
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