AFS Yelahanka Motto : Balamcha Budhischa Date Raised : 1984-12-17 Location : Yelahanka Among the first units to be formed at Yelahanka, then RAF station was No. 225 Group Communication Flight in 1942. Initially formed as a conversion and training squadron at Agra in 1948, the Units moved over to Begumpet in 1957 and was renamed as Transport Training Wing (TTW). In 1963 after the Sino -Indian conflict, the necessity for expanding training on transport aircraft became imperative. To facilitate this requirement; existing TTW was retained at Begumpet and No.2 TTW was established at Yelahanka, a suburb of Bangalore. Here, an airfield of world war II vintage was already in existence. This deserted airfield was recommissioned after necessary repairs on August I, 1963 and began functioning under the command of Gp Capt PL Dhawan. On January 1, 1968 both the TTW s were merged to form a single TTW at Yelahanka. Later, TTWs was renamed as Air Force Station, Yelahanka. Initial conversion courses were conducted on Dakota MkIII and MkIV. From Jan 1975 the HS-748 replaced the Dakota and the Course was renamed as Transport Conversion Course (TCC). An-32 was inducted in 1986 and Do-228 in 1996.
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17 Dec 84 - 08 Feb 86Air CommodorePoovala Govindarajulu Srivatsalu5383 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | 07 Feb 86 - 23 Dec 87Air CommodorePuthettu Kurien Mani5666 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | 24 Dec 87 - 24 Dec 91Air CommodoreJagbir Singh Rai6507 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | 30 Dec 91 - 24 Dec 92Air CommodoreBandi Kesava Rao Sunder8201 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | 24 Dec 92 - 17 Sep 95Air CommodorePandarangi Ananta Ramakrishna Kumar8747 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | |
18 Sep 95 - 31 Mar 97Air CommodoreMohinderjit Singh Singha9711 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | 12 May 97 - 30 Jun 99Air CommodoreBasudev Banerjee11654 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | 01 Jul 99 - 13 Jul 01Air CommodorePradeep Kumar12029 GD(P)AOCBengaluru | 14 Jul 01 - 13 Oct 03Air CommodoreDhiraj Kukreja13130 F(P)AOCBengaluru | 14 Oct 03 - 30 Jun 05Air CommodoreSatish Pal Singh13770 F(P)AOCBengaluru | |
01 Jul 05 - 21 Mar 07Air CommodoreGurwinder Jeet Singh Cheema14292 F(P)AOCBengaluru | 22 Mar 07 - 30 Apr 09Air CommodoreRavi Dhar14559 F(P)AOCBengaluru | 01 May 09 - 19 Jun 11Air CommodoreVidhya Sagar Bharti16611 F(P)AOCBengaluru | 20 Jun 11 - 23 Sep 12Air CommodoreBirender Singh Yadav17166 F(P)AOCBengaluru | 24 Sep 12 - 20 Jul 14Air CommodoreSurendra Pal Singh18260 F(P)AOCBengaluru | |
11 Jul 16 - 05 Aug 18Air CommodoreTejbir Singh19958 F(P)AOCBengaluru | 06 Aug 18 - 15 Dec 19Air CommodoreRavuri Sheetal20490 F(P)AOCBengaluru | 16 Dec 19 - 31 Aug 21Air CommodoreShailender Sood19181 F(P)AOCBengaluru |