20 Wing Date Raised : 1962-11-29 Location : Bagdogra Air Force Station Bagdogra, near Siliguri in West Bengal was formed on 29 November 1962, in the wake of the Sino-Indian border conflict. Like Air Force Station Guwahati, this Station was set up to exercise command and control over Fighter Sqns, Helicopter and Transport Unitss. The role of the Station changed in April 1970 when it started exercising administrative control on two Fighter Sqns, one Helicopter Units and two Air Observation Posts. A Survival security support Flight was moved to this Air Base in December 1982. The EAC Communication Flight was merged with this Flight in September 1997. This Flight was tasked to undertake Search and Rescue missions (SAR) during natural Since February 1989, a Signal Units established at this Station has been providing multi-channel communication facilities for Air Defence and Administrative Communication to the designated Unitss. A Mobile Observation Flight formed at this Base in February 1982 provides early warning of airborne objects to alert air defence measures.
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Unknown - 01 Dec 63Wing CommanderGeorge Christadoss Vithuasiromony Nallayya2770 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | Unknown - 01 Dec 64Wing CommanderHemant Ramkrishna Chitnis2964 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | 19 Mar 65 - 14 Apr 67Wing CommanderNarendra Bahadur Singh2971 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | 29 Nov 69 - 25 Jan 73Group CaptainMinoo Jehangir Dotiwalla3839 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | 26 Jan 73 - 23 Nov 73Group CaptainJohney William Greene4093 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | |
24 Nov 73 - 31 Dec 74Group CaptainDenis Anthony Lafontaine3844 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | Unknown - Group CaptainSukh Dev Mohan4789 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | 21 Feb 81 - 25 Nov 83Group CaptainViney Kapila5596 GD(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | 26 Nov 83 - 05 Feb 86Air CommodoreChandra Sekhar Doraiswamy5601 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | 06 Feb 86 - 29 Dec 88Air CommodoreAmarjit Singh Sethi5682 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | |
30 Dec 88 - 25 Nov 90Air CommodoreJagbir Singh5783 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | 26 Nov 90 - 14 Mar 93Air CommodoreSurinder Kumar Mitroo7688 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | 15 Mar 93 - 31 Jan 96Air CommodoreSurjit Singh8148 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | 18 Mar 96 - 04 Feb 98Air CommodoreNarendra Minocha9513 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | 29 Jun 98 - 02 Aug 00Air CommodoreJaspal Singh Gujral11300 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | |
03 Aug 00 - 05 Jan 03Air CommodorePrakash Prahalad Dani12214 GD(P)AOCBagdogra | 06 Jan 03 - 23 Dec 04Air CommodoreMohan John13131 F(P)AOCBagdogra | 24 Dec 04 - 15 Dec 06Air CommodoreRamesh Malhotra13590 F(P)AOCBagdogra | 16 Dec 05 - 12 Dec 07Group CaptainChandramouli16984 F(P)Stn CdrBagdogra | 13 Dec 07 - 30 Aug 09Air CommodoreAnil Kumar Jain14565 F(P)AOCBagdogra | |
31 Aug 09 - 30 Apr 11Air CommodoreKrishnan Sundarram17163 F(P)AOCBagdogra | 01 May 11 - 31 Dec 12Air CommodoreJonnalagedda Chalapati17358 F(P)AOCBagdogra | 01 Jan 13 - 31 Jul 14Air CommodoreBalabhadra Radha Krishna17326 F(P)AOCBagdogra | 01 Aug 14 - 01 Oct 16Air CommodorePemmaraju Maheshwar19183 F(P)AOCBagdogra | 02 Oct 16 - 30 Apr 19Air CommodoreManu Chaudhary19896 F(P)AOCBagdogra | |