AFS Tambaram Location : Tambaram (Chennai) The Air Force Station is one of the oldest stations of the Indian Air Force dating back to the days of World War-II when Royal Naval Air Station was carved out of an American Naval Base. In 1947, it was rechristened as Royal Indian Air Force Station, Tambaram with No.2 Ground Training School. On January 26, 1950, the station was renamed No 2 GTS, Air Force Station Tambaram. An important chapter in the history was the addition of Flying Instructors' School on October 10, 1954. Finally, in 1963 the station was established as Air Force Station, Tambaram with FIS and No 2 GTS as its lodger Unitss. Group Captain Norman Alexander Tait, OBE was the first Commanding Officer of the Station, which also has the distinction of being commanded by a former Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal (then Group Captain) O P Mehra from 1950 to 1953. In 1980, the station was upgraded and Air Commodore B L Verma became the first AOC.
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14 Aug 62 - 08 Oct 64Group CaptainTekchand Gopaldas Kelly1753 GD(O)Stn CdrChennai | 08 Oct 64 - 31 Mar 68Group CaptainJagbir Singh Bolarya1663 GD(O)Stn CdrChennai | 31 Mar 68 - 29 Dec 70Group CaptainHarbinder Singh Bedi3324 GD(P)Stn CdrChennai | 29 Dec 70 - 07 Jan 74Group CaptainPolisetti Sivaji Gupta3832 GD(N)Stn CdrChennai | 07 Jan 74 - 28 Jan 77Group CaptainBangshi Dhar Bargohain4111 GD(N)Stn CdrChennai | |
28 Jan 77 - 18 Mar 79Group CaptainBharat Lal Verma4206 GD(N)Stn CdrChennai | 19 Mar 79 - 30 Dec 80Air CommodoreBharat Lal Verma4206 GD(N)AOCChennai | 30 Dec 80 - 06 Jan 82Air CommodoreKrishnaswamy Subramanian4213 GD(N)AOCChennai | 06 Jan 82 - 09 Jan 84Air CommodoreMohan Chandra4889 GD(P)AOCChennai | 09 Jan 84 - 26 Mar 85Air CommodoreMangatil Karakad Chandrasekhar4720 GD(P)AOCChennai | |
26 Mar 85 - 29 Dec 86Air CommodoreHamid Muhammed Shahul5461 GD(N)AOCChennai | 29 Dec 86 - 12 Sep 88Air CommodoreSurinder Pal Dhawan5298 GD(N)AOCChennai | 12 Sep 88 - 28 Feb 89Air CommodoreSadanand Kulkarni5292 GD(N)AOCChennai | 06 Mar 89 - 31 Jul 91Air CommodoreShashikant Bhise5924 GD(N)AOCChennai | 09 Sep 91 - 20 Jan 94Air CommodoreRamesh Singh Sehgal6792 GD(N)AOCChennai | |
20 Jan 94 - 16 Jan 96Air CommodoreHarkirat Manmohan Singh8482 GD(N)AOCChennai | 16 Jan 96 - 20 Dec 98Air CommodorePrakash Narayandas Devy8745 GD(P)AOCChennai | 20 Dec 98 - 31 May 01Air CommodoreKuldeep Singh Sahota9848 GD(P)AOCChennai | 01 Oct 01 - 16 Oct 02Air CommodoreSatish Kumar Sofat12207 GD(P)AOCChennai | 17 Oct 02 - 02 Jan 04Air CommodoreMohinder Pal Singh Gill13604 F(P)AOCChennai | |
02 Jan 04 - 15 Nov 04Air CommodoreSapan Kumar Karmaker13379 F(P)AOCChennai | 16 Nov 04 - 29 Apr 07Air CommodoreMalvinder Singh Ahluwalia13809 F(P)AOCChennai | 30 Apr 07 - 28 Dec 08Air CommodoreTarun Kumar Varma14273 F(P)AOCChennai | 29 Dec 08 - 10 Jan 10Air CommodoreAshok Lal16031 F(P)AOCChennai | 11 Jan 10 - 21 Sep 11Air CommodoreSanjay Sharma16227 F(P)AOCChennai | |
22 Sep 11 - 29 Dec 13Air CommodoreSreekumar Prabhakaran17318 F(P)AOCChennai | | 17 Jul 16 - 02 Jan 18Air CommodoreSeethepalli Shrinivas18787 F(P)AOCChennai | 03 Jan 18 - Air CommodoreMan Singh Awana19153 F(P)AOCChennai |