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Date Raised : 1956-01-01 Location : Adampur
The genesis of Air Force Station Adampur can be traced back to a tiny airstrip of 1929 yards midway on the Jallandhar – Hoshiarpur highway at Adampur during World War II. 8 Wing Adampur was raised on 16 Mar 1950 as No.305 Wing. In 1956 it was renumbered to No.8 Wing, being an active base of operations during the 1965 and 1971 wars. It has been operating base for MiG-29s for several years and provided support during the Kargil Operations.
Unit previously existed as 305 Wing

Commanding Officers


01 Jan 56 - 08 Apr 57
Wing Commander
Melville Duarte
1772 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

09 Apr 57 - 13 Jun 58
Wing Commander
Padam Singh Gill
1656 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

14 Jun 58 - 04 Oct 59
Wing Commander
Arjan Singh Mangharam Bhawnani
1868 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

05 Oct 59 - 11 Jan 60
Wing Commander
Hemonto Kumar Bose
2348 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

11 Jan 60 - 23 Sep 62
Wing Commander
Leslie Richard Dickinson Blunt
1994 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

24 Sep 62 - 06 Nov 63
Wing Commander
Trilochan Singh Brar
2884 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

07 Nov 63 - 09 Aug 65
Group Captain
Krishna Ganapathi Raman
1767 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

10 Aug 65 - 03 Jan 68
Group Captain
Walter Vernon Alexander Lloyd
2623 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

04 Jan 68 - 18 Mar 68
Group Captain
Kanwar Singh
2781 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

21 Mar 68 - 14 Jul 70
Air Commodore
Yeshwant Ramachandra Agtey
2715 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

14 Jul 70 - 31 Oct 72
Air Commodore
Randhir Singh
2135 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

01 Nov 72 - 08 Feb 76
Air Commodore
Samir Banerji
2881 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

09 Feb 76 - 19 Jul 76
Air Commodore
Narendra Bahadur Singh
2971 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

20 Jul 76 - 21 Dec 77
Air Commodore
Denis Anthony Lafontaine
3844 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

22 Dec 77 - 21 Dec 79
Air Commodore
Cecil Vivian Parker
4346 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

24 Dec 79 - 04 Dec 81
Air Commodore
Surendra Kumar Mehra
4197 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

05 Dec 81 - 02 Jan 84
Air Commodore
Rajendra Kumar Dhawan
4736 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

03 Jan 84 - 02 Jan 86
Air Commodore
Janak Kumar
5122 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

03 Feb 86 - 24 Mar 88
Air Commodore
Keith David Kingsley Lewis
5109 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

25 Mar 88 - 31 Aug 88
Air Commodore
Vinod Kumar Bhatia
6497 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

01 Sep 88 - 31 Dec 90
Air Commodore
Tushar Sen
6006 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

01 Jan 91 - 16 Dec 92
Air Commodore
Inder Jit Singh Boparai
7691 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

17 Dec 92 - 01 Jan 95
Air Commodore
Tej Mohan Asthana
7672 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

02 Jan 95 - 05 Jan 96
Air Commodore
Narayan Menon
9005 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

06 Jan 96 - 06 Jan 97
Air Commodore
Satish Kumar Jain
9716 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

07 Jan 97 - 03 Jan 99
Air Commodore
James Arun Benjamin
11296 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

04 Jan 99 - 03 Jan 01
Air Commodore
Arun Gurunandan Katre
11852 GD(P)
AOC
Adampur

04 Jan 01 - 02 Jul 02
Air Commodore
Suresh Chandra Mukul
12930 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

03 Jul 02 - 19 Sep 04
Air Commodore
Kughikombil Joseph Mathews
13393 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

20 Sep 04 - 17 Dec 06
Air Commodore
Inder Singh
14082 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

18 Dec 06 - 26 Nov 07
Air Commodore
Arup Raha
13910 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

27 Nov 07 - 14 Jun 09
Group Captain
Pradeep Waman Ambedkar
16600 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Adampur

15 Jun 09 - 03 Jan 11
Air Commodore
Harjit Singh Arora
16557 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

04 Jan 11 - 24 Mar 13
Air Commodore
Michael Fernandez
16967 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

08 Apr 13 - 20 Dec 15
Air Commodore
Shridher Kishore Mohlah
18259 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

09 Jan 18 - 19 May 19
Air Commodore
Pudiapura Jawahar Mohamed
20445 F(P)
AOC
Adampur

20 May 19 - 21 Dec 21
Air Commodore
Gorantla Kasi Jalandhar Reddy
20990 F(P)
AOC
Adampur
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