9 Wing Date Raised : 1955-01-21 Location : Halwara Originally raised as 306 Wing at Palam on 16 March 1950, it moved to Halwara and subsequently renamed to 9 Wing on 29 Jan 1955. Halwara was built on an abandoned forward airstrip and played an active role in both the 1965 and 1971 wars. In recent years, it was home to the last of the MiG-23BN Unitss
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21 Jan 55 - 19 Apr 55Wing CommanderJagbir Singh Bolarya1663 GD(O)Stn CdrHalwara | 19 Apr 55 - 07 Nov 57Wing CommanderAnil Kanta Ganguly1677 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 07 Nov 57 - 18 Jun 60Wing CommanderPundalik Basawant Rao Pawar2123 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 18 Jun 60 - 03 Oct 62Wing CommanderSamir Banerji2881 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 03 Oct 62 - 20 Nov 62Wing CommanderGeorge Kanishtkumar John2132 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | |
21 Nov 62 - 05 Jan 66Group CaptainGeorge Kanishtkumar John2132 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 06 Jan 66 - 30 Apr 69Group CaptainDilbagh Singh2998 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 01 May 69 - 03 Mar 72Group CaptainChandra Kant Viswanath Gole3652 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 04 Mar 72 - 05 Jan 75Group CaptainNarinder Chatrath3959 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 06 Jan 75 - 15 Jul 76Group CaptainMan Singh4094 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | |
16 Jul 76 - 28 Dec 77Group CaptainPirthi Singh4480 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 19 Dec 77 - 20 Nov 79Group CaptainUpkar Singh4658 GD(P)Stn CdrHalwara | 21 Nov 79 - 23 Jan 81Air CommodoreUpkar Singh4658 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 23 Jan 81 - 06 Jan 84Air CommodoreAjit Singh Lamba4877 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 06 Jan 84 - 10 Feb 86Air CommodoreRanjit Singh Bedi5120 GD(P)AOCHalwara | |
10 Feb 86 - 30 Dec 87Air CommodorePratap Rao5188 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 30 Dec 87 - 22 Jan 89Air CommodoreDev Nath Rathore5780 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 23 Jan 89 - 11 Jan 91Air CommodoreVinod Kumar Verma6528 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 11 Jan 91 - 08 Mar 92Air CommodoreTeshter Jall Master7224 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 09 Mar 92 - 27 Aug 93Air CommodoreSitaramaiah Pingali7674 GD(P)AOCHalwara | |
11 Oct 93 - 19 Nov 95Air CommodoreGopalasamudram Mahadevan Vishwanathan9056 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 20 Nov 95 - 05 Jan 98Air CommodoreKalathil Payan Sreekanth10508 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 05 Jan 98 - 03 Jun 00Air CommodoreSaravjit Singh Hothi12215 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 03 Jun 00 - 02 Sep 01Air CommodoreGurcharan Singh Bhogal12504 GD(P)AOCHalwara | 03 Sep 01 - 17 Oct 03Air CommodoreSanjay Kumar Jayaswal13134 F(P)AOCHalwara | |
18 Oct 03 - 02 Jan 05Air CommodoreVijay Kumar Bali13787 F(P)AOCHalwara | 03 Jan 05 - 30 Aug 06Air CommodoreAnil Chopra13368 F(P)AOCHalwara | 01 Sep 06 - 31 Dec 07Air CommodorePradeep Mallappa Katti15005 F(P)AOCHalwara | 01 Jan 08 - 31 Aug 09Air CommodoreAnil Chaudhary14564 F(P)AOCHalwara | 01 Sep 09 - 03 Aug 10Group CaptainVikram Singh17699 F(P)Stn CdrHalwara | |
04 Aug 10 - 29 Nov 10Air CommodoreVikram Singh17699 F(P)AOCHalwara | 30 Nov 10 - 13 Jun 12Air CommodoreAshwani Kumar Nabh16608 F(P)AOCHalwara | 14 Jun 12 - 13 Jun 14Air CommodoreRavi Gopal Krishana Kapoor18253 F(P)AOCHalwara | 13 Jun 14 - 15 Jan 17Air CommodoreParveen Keshav Vohra19162 F(P)AOCHalwara | 16 Jan 17 - 12 Nov 18Air CommodoreDhananjay Vasant Khot19516 F(P)AOCHalwara | |