Advance HQ, Eastern Air Command


Date Raised : 1971-07-07 Location : Calcutta
Air Force Liaison Cell at Fort William Calcutta existed in June 1963. However, its exact date of formation remains unclear as it seems a setup of the same nature existed in Shillong prior to June 1963 and may have moved to Calcutta when HQ EAC moved to Shillong. In July 1971, this cell was redesignated as Advance HQ, Eastern Air Command. Till 1986 it had 2 TAC's under its command. On raising of 3 Corps in 1986, another TAC at Dimapur was setup.
Unit previously existed as AFLC EAC

Commanding Officers


01 Apr 61 - 02 Mar 62
Air Commodore
Kanwar Jaswant Singh
1587 GD(P)
AOC
Shillong

03 Mar 62 - 09 Jun 63
Air Commodore
Teja Singh Virk
1621 GD(O)
AOC
Shillong

07 Jul 71 - 14 Dec 73
Air Commodore
Solomon Purushottam
1928 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

17 Dec 73 - 31 Dec 75
Air Commodore
Harbinder Singh Bedi
3324 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

01 Jan 76 - 31 Jan 78
Air Commodore
Madhu Sudan Ray
3469 GD(N)
AOC
Calcutta

23 Jun 78 - 02 Jan 79
Air Commodore
Surendra Nath Kawlra
3945 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

02 Jan 79 - 09 Sep 79
Air Commodore
Venkataraman Srinivas Iyer
4330 GD(N)
AOC
Calcutta

10 Sep 79 - 09 Aug 81
Air Commodore
Manish Kumar Rudra
4358 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

10 Aug 81 - 31 Dec 84
Air Commodore
Ramachandra Shenoy Sudhakaran
4780 GD(N)
AOC
Calcutta

29 Mar 85 - 04 Feb 86
Air Commodore
Sindhaghatta Subbaramu
5371 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

05 Feb 86 - 30 Sep 87
Air Commodore
Murari Lal Trehon
4577 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

01 Oct 87 - 31 Dec 90
Air Commodore
Ranbir Singh Rana
5106 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

05 Jan 91 - 30 Sep 92
Air Commodore
Tushar Sen
6006 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

15 Mar 93 - 31 Oct 97
Air Commodore
Rajinder Mohan Singh Datta
8711 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

01 Nov 97 - 23 Dec 98
Air Commodore
Sadhashivan Radhakrishnan
12408 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

24 Dec 98 - 31 Aug 99
Air Commodore
Prakash Narayandas Devy
8745 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

20 Dec 99 - 22 Mar 03
Air Commodore
Manovinder Shamsher Bahadur Singh Jauhar
12201 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

28 Apr 03 - 08 Dec 03
Air Commodore
Devdas Banerjee
12192 GD(P)
AOC
Calcutta

12 Jan 04 - 30 Apr 06
Air Commodore
Krishna Kumar Swaminathan
13251 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

17 Jul 06 - 26 Apr 07
Air Commodore
Ramesh Rai
14669 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

30 Jul 07 - 31 Jul 09
Air Commodore
Dilip Dinkar Mandpe
13937 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

03 Aug 09 - 31 Jul 10
Air Commodore
Bhabani Charan Talukdar
13923 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

06 Dec 10 - 01 Jul 12
Air Commodore
Bavisetti Chandrasekhar
17726 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

02 Jul 12 - 31 Dec 14
Air Vice Marshal
Harinder Jeet Walia
16418 F(N)
AOC
Calcutta

01 Jan 15 - 15 May 16
Air Vice Marshal
Kalarikal Puttur Unnikrishnan Nair
17023 F(N)
AOC
Calcutta

16 May 16 - 30 Apr 18
Air Vice Marshal
Vikram Singh
17699 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

28 May 18 - 19 Jun 19
Air Vice Marshal
Dinesh Kumar Awasthi
18079 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

20 Jun 19 -
Air Vice Marshal
Guttikonda Amara Prasad Babu
17714 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

01 Sep 21 -
Air Vice Marshal
Awadesh Kumar Bharti
18781 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

01 Feb 23 - 15 Apr 24
Air Vice Marshal
Rahul Bhasin
20745 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

16 Apr 24 -
Air Vice Marshal
Amitabh Raja Shendye
19904 F(P)
AOC
Calcutta

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