4 Tactical Air Center Motto : Samvayi hi Durjayaha (Together we are invincible) Date Raised : 1957-01-19 Location : Nagrota 4 TAC was formed at Udhampur on 19 Jan 1957 in support of 15 Corps and functioned under Adv HQ WAC. On formation of Northern Command at Udhampur in Jun 1972, this centre was re-located at Nagrota and its affiliation changed to 16 Corps. The TAC continues to be an independent Units under the functional control of HQ AOC J &K.
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30 Jan 57 - 29 Sep 59Group CaptainJagdish Chandra Varma1646 GD(P)COUdhampur | 30 Sep 59 - 26 Jan 60Group CaptainAnantha Ananthanarayanan1607 GD(P)COUdhampur | 27 Jan 60 - 18 Jun 61Wing CommanderDamodar Madhao Oka1813 GD(P)COUdhampur | 19 Jun 61 - 25 Aug 63Group CaptainJagbir Singh Bolarya1663 GD(O)COUdhampur | 26 Aug 63 - 10 Jul 64Group CaptainJohn Francis Lazaro2944 GD(P)COUdhampur | |
| 16 Mar 65 - 02 Jan 67Group CaptainVellore Manickam Radhakrishnan1769 GD(P)COUdhampur | 06 Feb 67 - 05 Sep 67Group CaptainBrian Keith Stidston2821 GD(P)COUdhampur | 09 Oct 67 - 24 Jan 70Group CaptainNauroze Kaikaushru Lalkaka3083 GD(P)COUdhampur | 27 Jan 70 - 14 Nov 72Group CaptainKanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra3831 GD(N)COUdhampur/ Nagrota | |
16 Nov 72 - 17 Jun 74Group CaptainMadan Mohan Arora3864 GD(P)CONagrota | 26 Jun 74 - 10 Jul 76Group CaptainDalip Wikram Chauhan4031 GD(P)CONagrota | 10 Jul 76 - 07 May 77Group CaptainKrishan Kumar Badhwar4669 GD(P)CONagrota | 20 Jun 77 - 20 Oct 80Group CaptainKrishen Kumar Bakshi5012 GD(P)CONagrota | 21 Oct 80 - 24 Jan 83Group CaptainPeter Eric Gaynor5110 GD(P)CONagrota | |
24 Jan 83 - 28 Sep 86Group CaptainSatya Van Bhutani5070 GD(P)CONagrota | 13 Oct 86 - 07 May 89Group CaptainSivaramakrishnan Kalyanaraman7704 GD(P)CONagrota | 08 May 89 - 12 Jun 89Group CaptainKaram Singh Sidhu8947 GD(P)CONagrota | 04 Aug 89 - 20 Jun 93Group CaptainYatindra Chauhan8696 GD(P)CONagrota | | |
09 Oct 95 - 02 Nov 97Group CaptainArun Kumar Dharamdas Sonpar13398 F(P)CONagrota | 27 Jan 98 - 06 Aug 00Group CaptainSudhir Hooda14095 F(P)CONagrota | 07 Aug 00 - 28 Apr 03Group CaptainRichard Anthony15027 F(P)CONagrota | 07 May 03 - 09 Jul 06Group CaptainRajesh Kumar15187 F(P)CONagrota | | |
24 Dec 07 - 30 Jun 09Group CaptainReetinder Singh Sodhi15693 F(P)CONagrota | | |