45 Wing Date Raised : 1989-04-17 Location : Sirsa Air Force Station Sirsa was established in 1960. Situated on the banks of river Ghaggar, the Station was first designated as 10 C&MU (Care & Maintenance Units) under the command of Flt Lt Patrick, a logistics officer. The first aircraft to land at the airfield was a Dakota' on a runway made of PSP sheets. The concrete runway, PTT and the loops were constructed in 1963.0n 12 Jan 70, the station was redesignated as 5 MEMU (Mobile Echelon Maintenance Units). Two years later in Aug 72, the base was made a Forward Base Support Units and rechristened as 2 Forward Base Supporting Units (FBSU). The FBSU was upgraded in to a full fledged Wing in Apr 89.
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17 Apr 89 - 23 Jun 89Group CaptainTej Mohan Asthana7672 GD(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 10 Jul 89 - 22 Dec 91Group CaptainDhanwant Singh Guram10916 GD(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 23 Dec 91 - 02 May 94Group CaptainHar Prakash Singh Sidhu11051 GD(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 03 May 94 - 17 Dec 95Group CaptainPadamjit Singh Ahluwalia11631 GD(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 18 Dec 95 - 22 Mar 98Group CaptainVivek Kumar Chopra12752 GD(P)Stn CdrSirsa | |
| 24 Apr 00 - 27 May 01Group CaptainArun Vasudeo Thakur Desai13372 F(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 28 May 01 - 20 Mar 02Group CaptainSimhakutty Varthaman13606 F(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 21 Mar 02 - 07 May 04Group CaptainThinide Kumar Nair14680 F(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 08 May 04 - 01 Jan 06Group CaptainVinod Kumar Chopra14563 F(P)Stn CdrSirsa | |
02 Jan 06 - 03 Feb 08Group CaptainAshit Ishwarlal Mehta16377 F(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 04 Feb 08 - 20 Dec 09Group CaptainGurcharan Singh Bedi17448 F(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 21 Dec 09 - 03 Jul 11Group CaptainAnil Sabharwal18553 F(P)Stn CdrSirsa | 04 Jul 11 - 03 Jan 13Air CommodoreSavinder Pal Singh18116 F(P)AOCSirsa | 04 Jan 13 - 28 Dec 14Air CommodoreMakarand Ranade18586 F(P)AOCSirsa | |
29 Dec 14 - 10 Apr 17Air CommodoreAshish Vohra18801 F(P)AOCSirsa | 12 Jun 17 - 24 Dec 18Air CommodoreMehtab Singh Deswal20131 F(P)AOCSirsa |