No.3 Squadron Cobras

Motto : Lakshya Ved (Destroy target with Precision)
Date Raised : 1941-10-01 Location : Nal

Aircraft Types operated over the years:

Commanding Officers
01 Oct 41 - 13 Apr 42 Squadron Leader NAN Bray RAF CO Peshawar	28 Sep 47 - 09 Dec 47 Squadron Leader Anand Ramdas Pandit 1707 GD(P) CO Pune	10 Dec 47 - 11 Feb 49 Squadron Leader Kasargod Sadanand Bhat 1747 GD(P) CO Pune	12 Feb 49 - 28 Apr 50 Squadron Leader Kenneth Merals David 1863 GD(O) CO Pune	11 May 50 - 14 Jul 52 Squadron Leader John Ivor McKenzie 1806 GD(P) CO Pune/ Halwara/ Ambal
15 Jul 52 - 29 Dec 53 Squadron Leader Anant Vemanrao Samsi 1865 GD(P) CO Ambala	30 Dec 53 - 15 Apr 55 Squadron Leader John Jasper Bouche 2938 GD(P) CO Ambala	16 Apr 55 - 21 Oct 55 Squadron Leader Suranjan Das 3175 GD(P) CO Ambala	22 Oct 55 - 30 Apr 57 Squadron Leader Maheshwar Das Khanna 2776 GD(P) CO Ambala	01 May 57 - 14 Apr 59 Squadron Leader Subhas Ranjan Bose 3152 GD(P) CO Ambala/ Kalaikunda
15 Apr 59 - 13 Dec 61 Squadron Leader Om Prakash Taneja 3843 GD(P) CO Kalaikunda	14 Apr 42 - 15 Aug 42 Squadron Leader Mehar Singh 1559 GD(P) CO Peshawar	14 Dec 61 - 21 Nov 62 Squadron Leader Patrick Russell Earle 3965 GD(P) CO Kalaikunda	22 Nov 62 - 03 Apr 65 Wing Commander Regionald Louis Sayce 3086 GD(P) CO Kalaikunda/ Pathanko	05 Apr 65 - 11 Sep 65 Wing Commander Paul Cecil Roby 3479 GD(P) CO Pathankot
12 Sep 65 - 25 Sep 67 Wing Commander Surapati Bhattacharya 3974 GD(P) CO Pathankot	26 Sep 67 - 26 Dec 68 Wing Commander Kalyan Krishna Kurane 4426 GD(P) CO Pathankot	17 Aug 69 - 11 Jun 71 Wing Commander Pattathil Venugopal 4431 GD(P) CO Pathankot	12 Jun 71 - 04 Dec 73 Wing Commander Rabindar Nath Dogra 4725 GD(P) CO Pathankot/ Hindan	01 Feb 74 - 11 Apr 75 Wing Commander Tekkidath Vijayan Nair Vijayan 5009 GD(P) CO Pathankot
02 May 75 - 11 Aug 76 Wing Commander Madan Mohan Sharma 5108 GD(P) CO Pathankot	21 Aug 76 - 20 Jan 79 Wing Commander Dinanath Ramchander Nadkarni 5587 GD(P) CO Pathankot	16 Aug 42 - 25 Aug 42 Flight Lieutenant Diwan Atma Ram Nanda 1562 GD(P) CO Peshawar	22 Jan 79 - 21 Jun 81 Wing Commander Udaysingh Vyankatoar Lagad 6015 GD(P) CO Pathankot	22 Jun 81 - 29 May 83 Wing Commander Anil Kumar Trikha 8436 GD(P) CO Pathankot
30 May 83 - 19 May 85 Wing Commander Gurumurthy Balasubramanian 8445 GD(P) CO Pathankot	17 Jun 85 - 07 Oct 87 Wing Commander Dasharathy Dayakar 10908 GD(P) CO Pathankot	16 Oct 87 - 16 Oct 89 Wing Commander Rabin Kumar Ghosh 11306 GD(P) CO Pathankot	17 Oct 89 - 02 Dec 91 Wing Commander Anup Kumar Shyam 12065 GD(P) CO Pathankot	03 Dec 91 - 26 Dec 93 Wing Commander Bidanda Chengapa Nanjappa 13246 F(P) CO Pathankot
27 Dec 93 - 16 Jul 95 Wing Commander Tejender Pal Singh Gill 13767 F(P) CO Pathankot	17 Jul 95 - 13 Jul 97 Wing Commander Dipanjan Roy Chowdhury 14678 F(P) CO Pathankot/ Ambala	14 Jul 97 - 29 Aug 99 Wing Commander Anup Ghosh 15563 F(P) CO Ambala	26 Aug 42 - 12 Sep 43 Squadron Leader Diwan Atma Ram Nanda 1562 GD(P) CO Peshawar	30 Aug 99 - 22 Jul 01 Wing Commander Kalianda Appaya Muthana 16372 F(P) CO Ambala
23 Jul 01 - 08 Dec 02 Wing Commander Ravinder Kumar Dhir 15678 F(P) CO Ambala	09 Dec 02 - 06 Mar 05 Wing Commander Harish Nayani 17135 F(P) CO Ambala	07 Mar 05 - 06 May 07 Wing Commander Dhananjai Vishnu Wani 18568 F(P) CO Ambala	07 May 07 - Wing Commander Manish Kumar Gupta 20439 F(P) CO Ambala	13 Sep 43 - 06 Jan 45 Squadron Leader Prithipal Singh 1578 GD(P) CO Peshawar
08 Jan 45 - 27 Dec 45 Squadron Leader Shivdev Singh 1595 GD(P) CO Peshawar	28 Dec 45 - 27 Mar 46 Squadron Leader Om Prakash Mehra 1639 GD(P) CO Kohat	01 Apr 46 - 30 Dec 46 Squadron Leader Ramchander Atmaram 1583 GD(P) CO Kohat	31 Dec 46 - 28 Aug 47 Squadron Leader Mohan Dev Suri 1655 GD(P) CO Kohat

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