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26 Equipment Depot


Date Raised : 1966-04-22 Location : Bengaluru
Rotables of Jaguar, Cheetah Chetak, AVRO, Canberra. Kiran MK-I&I, I&II Line Spares of Jaguar and engines of All Indian & European a/c except Mirage & Dornier a/c.

Commanding Officers


22 Apr 66 - 14 Jan 68
Wing Commander
Chand Prakash Mehra
2469 A&SD
CO
Bengaluru

29 Jan 68 - 20 Apr 69
Wing Commander
Joseph Kenneth Frank Pereira
2602 BALL
CO
Bengaluru

29 May 69 - 30 Jun 72
Wing Commander
Kuppuswamier Chidambaram
3531 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

17 Jul 72 - 28 Jan 73
Wing Commander
Vidya Rattan
3532 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

29 Jan 73 - 14 Feb 76
Group Captain
Vidya Rattan
3532 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

15 Jun 76 - 04 Feb 79
Group Captain
Padam Sen Kapur
3704 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

07 May 79 - 08 Aug 82
Group Captain
Chander Prakash Aggarwal
4190 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

09 Sep 82 - 26 Jun 85
Group Captain
Bal Krishan Challu
5647 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

27 Jun 85 - 19 Nov 87
Group Captain
Ashok Kumar
6042 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

20 Nov 87 - 11 Sep 90
Group Captain
Girish Chandra Dhyani
6722 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

12 Sep 90 - 30 Sep 93
Group Captain
Pavan Mohan Puri
6624 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

30 Sep 93 - 16 Mar 96
Group Captain
Guruswami Reddiar Rangaraju
9654 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

18 Mar 96 - 20 Dec 98
Group Captain
Shivshankar Anandrao Kodange
11698 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

21 Dec 98 - 21 Apr 00
Group Captain
Manmohan Singh
11953 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

22 Apr 00 - 30 Oct 02
Group Captain
Suhas Shamrao Mohite
12346 EQPT
CO
Bengaluru

30 Oct 02 - 02 Jan 06
Group Captain
Putham Madam Radhakrishnan
14054 LGS
CO
Bengaluru

02 Jan 06 - 22 Mar 07
Group Captain
Pradip Das Chowdhury
13675 LGS
CO
Bengaluru

22 Mar 07 - 22 Mar 09
Group Captain
Surender Kumar Sharma
14525 LGS
CO
Bengaluru

20 Apr 09 - 31 Mar 10
Group Captain
Shirish Vinayak Nene
15756 LGS
CO
Bengaluru

Unknown - 01 Dec 12
Air Commodore
Anil Handa
15211 F(P)
AOC
Bengaluru

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Biju Paul
17791 LGS
AOC
Bengaluru

Unknown - 25 Dec 17
Air Commodore
Rajendra Kumar Rahvichandra Gandhi
18637 LGS
AOC
Bengaluru

26 Dec 17 - 20 Jun 19
Air Commodore
Manas Ranjan Mishra
18649 LGS
AOC
Bengaluru

21 Jun 19 -
Air Commodore
Laly Joseph
18643 LGS
AOC
Bengaluru

08 Jan 21 - 04 May 22
Air Commodore
Ajay Kumar Pan
19377 LGS
AOC
Bengaluru

05 May 22 - 31 Aug 23
Air Commodore
Rajesh Bhandari
20624 LGS
AOC
Bengaluru
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