34 Wing Date Raised : 1980-04-30 Location : Bhaisana (Bhatinda) Air Force Station Bathinda, as it was known then, began its life as 10 FBSU in 1975 as a lodger Units of 12 Wing AF. As early as 1975, trials by fighter aircraft of 108 Squadron were carried out to ascertain the fitness of the airfield for operations. But it took another four years for this transitory base, with a single watch ATC and first line servicing facilities to become a permanent base for fighter operations. Having undergone trials by Unitss from the Air Force and Army, AF Station Bhisiana established itself to be capable of undertaking all AF Tasks. The station grew in strategic importance and was elevated to status Wing on 18 Feb 80.
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30 Apr 80 - 12 Jul 81Group CaptainBir Inder Singh5040 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 18 Jul 81 - 09 May 82Group CaptainPratap Rao5188 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 10 May 82 - 07 Oct 84Group CaptainLawrence Aloysious Menezes5280 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 08 Oct 84 - 08 Dec 86Group CaptainSuresh Shankarrao Dange6762 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 09 Dec 86 - 27 Jan 89Group CaptainVasudevan Vatsalan Nair7693 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | |
28 Jan 89 - 19 Apr 92Group CaptainManpreet Singh Brar8715 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 20 Apr 92 - 26 Dec 94Group CaptainDilip Kamalakar Dighe9745 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 27 Dec 94 - 25 Apr 96Group CaptainVinod Kumar Verma11638 GD(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 26 Apr 96 - 14 Mar 99Group CaptainKrishnamurthi Rajaram12933 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 15 Mar 99 - 03 Sep 00Group CaptainRakesh Kacker12951 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | |
04 Sep 00 - 31 Jan 02Group CaptainAmul Kapoor13378 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 01 Feb 02 - 19 Oct 03Group CaptainArup Raha13910 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 20 Oct 03 - 22 Jun 05Group CaptainSubramanyam Sukumar14672 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 23 Jun 05 - 31 May 07Group CaptainRavinder Kumar Dhir15678 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 01 Jun 07 - 06 Jul 09Group CaptainSanjeev Narayan Deshpande16559 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | |
06 Jul 09 - 06 Jun 11Group CaptainBalkrishnan Balachandran18561 F(P)Stn CdrBhaisana (Bhatinda) | 06 Aug 11 - 03 Jan 13Air CommodoreVishwas Gaur17361 F(P)AOCBhaisana (Bhatinda) | | | 09 Oct 17 - 08 May 19Air CommodoreRajiva Ranjan18810 F(P)AOCBhaisana (Bhatinda) | |
09 May 19 - 19 Sep 21Air CommodoreGopal Singh Chauhan21007 F(P)AOCBhaisana (Bhatinda) |