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Chief Test Pilot Appointments at Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment


23 Aug 72 - 31 Jan 73
Squadron Leader
Chandra Krishna Kumar Menon
5699 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 Feb 73 - 04 Jan 76
Wing Commander
Partha Kumar Dey
4404 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

05 Jan 76 - 04 Mar 76
Squadron Leader
Kirpal Singh
5115 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

05 Mar 76 - 28 Oct 76
Wing Commander
Brijesh Dhar Jayal
4972 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

29 Oct 76 - 19 Jun 77
Wing Commander
Ajit Singh Lamba
4877 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

02 Jun 77 - 07 Jul 80
Group Captain
Palamadai Muthuswamy Ramachandran
4973 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

08 Jul 80 - 13 Dec 81
Group Captain
Ajit Singh Lamba
4877 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

14 Dec 81 - 23 Sep 84
Group Captain
Inderjit Singh Sandhu
4790 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

24 Sep 84 - 07 Aug 88
Group Captain
Philip Rajkumar
6748 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

08 Aug 88 - 31 Dec 90
Group Captain
Ravish Malhotra
7673 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 Jan 91 - 28 Nov 92
Group Captain
Pradeep Kumar Yadav
9042 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

29 Nov 92 - 28 Nov 93
Group Captain
Pramod Kumar Mehra
11581 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

29 Nov 93 - 31 Jul 95
Group Captain
Ajit Keshav Agtey
12188 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 Aug 95 - 31 Aug 96
Group Captain
Ashok Vishwanath Bhagwat
12218 GD(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 Sep 96 - 31 Jan 97
Group Captain
Gopal Ranjit Mohan
12926 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 Feb 97 - 09 May 99
Group Captain
Simhakutty Varthaman
13606 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

04 Jun 99 - 03 Nov 00
Group Captain
Motilal Nalluri
13911 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

04 Nov 00 - 14 Oct 03
Group Captain
Subramanyam Sukumar
14672 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

14 Nov 03 - 03 Jan 07
Group Captain
Pochana Prasad Reddy
15008 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

09 Apr 07 - 31 Aug 08
Group Captain
Sudhir Verma
15859 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 Sep 08 - 27 Aug 09
Group Captain
Krishnan Sundarram
17163 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

03 Nov 09 - 10 Oct 10
Group Captain
Sandeep Singh
17312 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

22 Nov 10 - 08 Apr 12
Group Captain
Narmdeshwar Tiwari
18270 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

09 Apr 12 - 25 Mar 13
Air Commodore
Narmdeshwar Tiwari
18270 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 May 13 - 14 Dec 13
Group Captain
Jeetendra Mishra
18575 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

26 Dec 13 - 20 Jul 14
Air Commodore
Jonnalagedda Chalapati
17358 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

29 Nov 14 - 31 Jul 16
Air Commodore
Amar Preet Singh
17695 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

05 Dec 16 - 31 Jul 17
Group Captain
George Thomas
20118 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore

01 Aug 17 - 30 Apr 19
Group Captain
Badhrish Narasimha Athreya
23509 F(P)
CTP
Bangalore
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