10 Wing Date Raised : 1952-08-01 Location : Jorhat AFS Jorhat was formed in August 1952 as the first AFS in eastern Sector. The station was designated as 10 Wing in 1958. The history of aviation in Jorhat and the North- East, dates back to the year 1928, when the first aeroplane a GI-AA-X, piloted by Barnard Leete, landed on the grounds of the Jorhat Gymkhana Club to carry a passenger to Calcutta. The Gymkhana Club (the third oldest in the world) and the field on which the aircraft landed, still exist and all the officers of Air Force Station Jorhat are members of the Club. After World War Il broke out in September 1939, the RAF took over the wasteland of Rowariah Tea Estate from district authorities to build an airfield. Till then, the present airfield area, West of Railway Line was known as Poki-Muri Tapari. Rowariah airfield was handed over to the USAF by the RAF to lift military stores to China. The USAF took over more areas under tea plantation, from Rowariah Tea Estate. The history of Air Transport Support, the IAF's lift force, dates back to 1941 when the China-Burma- India theatre opened up. The India China Station Air Transport Command or ICWATC first came up with two Stations, the Assam Station handling the traffic and India Station handling all other operations. Jorhat was Station No. 4 in Assam Station. Eight years after the end of World War Il on August 1, 1952, the Station Dett at Jorhat was upgraded to an independent Station with a permanent detachment of Dakota aircraft from Barrackpore.
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01 Aug 52 - 01 Aug 53Squadron LeaderHarchand Singh Gill2862 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Aug 53 - 01 Oct 53Squadron LeaderGurbachan Singh Bhullar1870 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Oct 53 - 01 Aug 54Squadron LeaderNarendra Behari Lall1680 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Aug 54 - 01 Feb 57Wing CommanderEdul Jahangir Dhatigara1899 GD(O)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Feb 57 - 01 May 59Wing CommanderPothery Charuvary Ramachandran3514 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | |
01 May 59 - 01 Feb 60Wing CommanderChristopher Andrew Neelakantan1926 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Feb 60 - 01 Oct 62Group CaptainWaman Raghunath Dani1807 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Oct 62 - 01 Jun 65Group CaptainAmrit Lal Bery1861 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | | 01 Feb 67 - 01 Apr 68Group CaptainYeshwant Ramachandra Agtey2715 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | |
01 Apr 68 - 01 Jan 70Group CaptainSurinder Singh3009 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Jan 70 - 01 Dec 71Group CaptainChandan Singh3460 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 01 Dec 71 - 06 Feb 74Group CaptainVir Narain4007 GD(N)Stn CdrJorhat | 07 Feb 74 - 28 Sep 75Group CaptainRanjit Kumar Kukar4103 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 29 Sep 75 - 16 Apr 78Group CaptainKailash Chandra Sharma4412 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | |
17 Aug 78 - 27 Apr 80Group CaptainGursaran Singh Ahluwalia4912 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 28 Aug 80 - 19 Aug 81Group CaptainHari Mander Pal Singh Pannu5307 GD(P)Stn CdrJorhat | 20 Aug 81 - 29 Dec 82Air CommodoreManish Kumar Rudra4358 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 30 Dec 82 - 31 Mar 85Air CommodoreKeshave Dev Kanagat4433 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 01 Apr 85 - 18 Jan 87Air CommodoreMangatil Karakad Chandrasekhar4720 GD(P)AOCJorhat | |
19 Jan 87 - 01 Jan 89Air CommodoreDalip Singh Dahiya5866 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 02 Jan 89 - 12 Aug 90Air CommodoreSowarnjit Singh Dhillon5186 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 13 Aug 90 - 22 Nov 92Air CommodoreKhushindhar Singh Bindra6863 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 22 Nov 92 - 04 Jun 95Air CommodoreRanjit Kumar Pal8666 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 05 Jun 95 - 31 Aug 97Air CommodorePeter Keith Pinto8419 GD(P)AOCJorhat | |
01 Sep 97 - 13 Jun 99Air CommodoreSudhir Mohan Sethi9479 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 14 Jun 99 - 09 Dec 01Air CommodoreRam Mohan Shridharan12033 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 10 Dec 01 - 31 Mar 04Air CommodorePravesh Kumar12411 GD(P)AOCJorhat | 01 Apr 04 - 01 Jan 06Air CommodoreManmohan Sud13945 F(P)AOCJorhat | 02 Jan 06 - 31 Jul 07Air CommodoreRoderick Osbern Joseph Assey14108 F(P)AOCJorhat | |
01 Aug 07 - 31 Dec 09Air CommodoreGurinder Pal Singh15417 F(P)AOCJorhat | | 16 May 11 - 24 Apr 12Air CommodoreTarun Kumar Sinha18084 F(P)AOCJorhat | 25 Apr 12 - 13 Jul 14Air CommodoreJoseph Vithayathil Paul17165 F(P)AOCJorhat | 14 Jul 14 - 15 Apr 17Kiran Prakash Virk19218 F(P)AOCJorhat | |