33 Wing Date Raised : 1978-04-22 Location : Jamnagar After Independence, the IAF setup the Armament Training Wing for Air to Ground and Air to Air Armament training. It had an air to ground range at Sarmat and and air to air range in gulf of Kutch near the coastal strip of Jodhya - Balachandi. The ATW had a staff of PAIs (Pilot Attack instructors) who conducted the training. It has no aircrafts of its own except a few Dakotas. The ATW staff was considered the cream the fighter pilots. In 1957-58 a PAI School (Pilot Attack Instructors) was formed to train instructors. A new Air to Air range was bought into Gulf of Arabia. In 1964, a new operational Conversion Units (OCU) was formed with Hunter aircraft. the PAI school was closed in 1975. OCU moved out and TACDE moved in. On 22 April 1978, ATW was converted into a operational wing by the name of 33 Wing.
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02 Jan 78 - 25 Mar 79Group CaptainBhupendra Kumar Bishnoi4594 GD(P)Stn CdrJamnagar | 26 Mar 79 - 15 Feb 81Air CommodorePattathil Venugopal4431 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 16 Feb 81 - 15 Aug 83Air CommodoreTapas Kumar Sen4475 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 16 Aug 83 - 01 Jan 85Air CommodoreDushyant Singh5048 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 02 Jan 85 - 11 Jan 87Air CommodorePrabhat Kumar Varma4822 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | |
12 Jan 87 - 11 Jan 89Air CommodorePrithvi Singh Brar6007 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 12 Jan 89 - 30 Dec 90Air CommodoreTrevor Raymond Joseph Osman6005 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 31 Dec 90 - 20 Jun 93Air CommodoreShashindra Pal Tyagi8130 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 21 Jun 93 - 26 Nov 95Air CommodoreKurumthodathil Cherian Phillipose7702 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 27 Nov 95 - 30 Dec 96Air CommodoreSurendra Singh Tyagi9467 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | |
31 Dec 96 - 29 Dec 97Air CommodoreMohan Dikshit11309 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 30 Dec 97 - 16 Dec 99Air CommodoreShiv Kumar Bhan12510 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 17 Dec 99 - 26 Aug 01Air CommodoreUdoy Narayan Ganguly12381 GD(P)AOCJamnagar | 26 Aug 01 - 15 Aug 03Air CommodoreAjay Shrivniwas Karnik13140 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 16 Oct 03 - 19 Jun 05Air CommodoreAmul Kapoor13378 F(P)AOCJamnagar | |
20 Jun 05 - 01 Apr 07Air CommodoreDevinder Singh14284 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 02 Apr 07 - 20 Apr 08Air CommodoreRavi Kant Sharma14088 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 21 Apr 08 - 28 Dec 09Air CommodoreChandrashekharan Hari Kumar15881 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 29 Dec 09 - 30 Jan 11Air CommodoreDevendra Singh Rawat16242 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 31 Jan 11 - 18 Dec 11Air CommodoreRaghunath Nambiar16378 F(P)AOCJamnagar | |
19 Dec 11 - 19 Oct 14Air CommodorePravin Ramehandra Navalkar17173 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 20 Oct 14 - 31 Jul 17Air CommodoreSanjay Nimesh17862 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 01 Aug 17 - 05 Jun 18Air CommodoreSanjai Chauhan20466 F(P)AOCJamnagar | 01 Jan 20 - Air CommodoreMehtab Singh Deswal20131 F(P)AOCJamnagar |