PSO: Administration, Air HQ Date Raised : 1940-07-21 In 1940, a new role of Senior officer in charge Administration was created at Air Headquarters. All administrative functions such as Personnel, Equipment, organisation, engineering were under this officer. Soon therrafter the tole was redisgnated as AOA (Air Officer in charge Administration). This system continued till 31 Jan 1949. Around this time, the directorates of equipment and technical were transferred out and the role wss briefly redesignated as Air Officer In Charge Personnel and Org between 1949 and 1958. In 1958, it reverted to its old designation of AOA. In 1980 the Directorates relating to Personnel were transferred to a newly created post (AOP) and AOA was left with the charge of works, Org, Accounts, medical, JAG amongst others. This continues to date.
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| | 02 Apr 42 - 15 Sep 43Air Vice MarshalAlfred Conrad CollierRAFAOADelhi | 16 Sep 43 - 15 Nov 43Air Vice MarshalRobert Victor GoddardRAFAOADelhi | | |
| 01 Apr 46 - Air Vice MarshalRobert Linton RaggRAFAOADelhi | | 15 Aug 47 - 27 Sep 48Air CommodoreAspy Merwan Engineer1554 GD(P)AOADelhi | 15 Nov 48 - 31 Jan 49Air CommodoreDiwan Atma Ram Nanda1562 GD(P)AOADelhi | |
01 Feb 49 - 11 Dec 52Air CommodoreDiwan Atma Ram Nanda1562 GD(P)AOC (P&O)Delhi | 12 Dec 52 - 08 Dec 55Air CommodoreArjan Singh1577 GD(P)AOC (P&O)Delhi | 09 Dec 55 - 11 May 58Air CommodoreRavinder Hari Darshan Singh1558 GD(P)AOC (P&O)Delhi | 28 May 58 - 06 Dec 59Air CommodoreErlic Wilmot Pinto1593 GD(P)AOADelhi | 23 Jan 60 - 09 May 61Air CommodoreHirendra Nath Chatterjee1620 GD(P)AOADelhi | |
10 May 61 - 31 Dec 62Air Vice MarshalArjan Singh1577 GD(P)AOADelhi | 01 Jan 63 - 10 Nov 66Air Vice MarshalMohan Swaroop Chaturvedi1592 GD(O)AOADelhi | 11 Nov 66 - 08 Aug 69Air Vice MarshalYeshwant Vinayak Malse1616 GD(P)AOADelhi | 30 Aug 69 - 31 Dec 71Air Vice MarshalTeja Singh Virk1621 GD(O)AOADelhi | 01 Jan 72 - 01 Jan 74Air MarshalTeja Singh Virk1621 GD(O)AOADelhi | |
02 Jan 74 - 26 Jun 74Air MarshalIdris Hasan Latif1804 GD(P)AOADelhi | 01 Jul 74 - 21 Jan 77Air MarshalGian Dev Sharma1742 GD(P)AOADelhi | 01 Feb 77 - 10 Feb 79Air MarshalGeorge Kanishtkumar John2132 GD(P)AOADelhi | 01 Mar 79 - 22 Feb 81Air MarshalSaroj Jena3157 GD(P)AOADelhi | 23 Feb 81 - 19 Oct 81Air MarshalErasseri Pathayapurayil Radhakrishnan Nair3837 GD(N)AOADelhi | |
10 Feb 82 - 28 Feb 83Air MarshalKapil Dev Chadha3845 GD(P)AOADelhi | 01 Mar 83 - 31 Aug 85Air MarshalShri Krishna Chandra Gupta3568 A&SDAOADelhi | 01 Sep 85 - 31 Dec 85Air MarshalMadan Lal Sethi4009 GD(N)AOADelhi | 10 Feb 86 - 27 Jul 86Air MarshalJagdish Kumar Seth4403 GD(P)AOADelhi | 29 Jul 86 - 27 Jan 88Air MarshalKrishnaswamy Subramanian4213 GD(N)AOADelhi | |
28 Jan 88 - 31 Jan 91Air MarshalParduman Kumar Jain4366 A&SDAOADelhi | 11 Apr 91 - 23 Dec 91Air MarshalNaresh Kumar5057 GD(P)AOADelhi | 13 Jul 92 - 31 Oct 95Air MarshalMohinder Kumar Anand5498 A&SDAOADelhi | 03 Nov 95 - 30 Jun 01Air MarshalDinesh Chandra Dhyani6590 A&SDAOADelhi | 01 Jul 01 - 31 Dec 03Air MarshalRamesh Chandra Mahadik8570 A&SDAOADelhi | |
22 Mar 04 - 31 Jul 06Air MarshalHarendrajit Singh Garkal11780 A&SDAOADelhi | 01 Aug 06 - 30 Nov 12Air MarshalJyoti Narayan Burma13219 ADMAOADelhi | 01 Dec 12 - 31 Jan 13Air MarshalNaresh Verma13235 ADMAOADelhi | 01 Feb 13 - 30 Apr 15Air MarshalHerikudru Babu Rajaram14939 ADMAOADelhi | 01 May 15 - 31 Jul 16Air MarshalBipin Bihari Prasad Sinha15748 ADMAOADelhi | |
01 Aug 16 - 31 Jul 17Air MarshalMahesh Kumar Malik15743 ADMAOADelhi | 01 Aug 17 - 31 Oct 18Air MarshalHemant Narayan Bhagwat16423 ADMAOADelhi | 01 Nov 18 - 31 Dec 19Air MarshalPradeep Padmakar Bapat17227 ADMAOADelhi | 01 Jan 20 - 31 Jan 21Air MarshalMothlamnet Sabari Gireen Menon17035 ADMAOADelhi | 01 Feb 21 - 31 Jan 22Air MarshalVijay Pal Singh Rana17736 ADMAOADelhi | |
01 Feb 22 - 31 May 23Air MarshalKrishnaswamy Anantharaman17882 ADMAOADelhi | 01 Jun 23 - Air MarshalRajesh Kumar Anand18892 ADMAOADelhi |