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Advance HQ, South Western Air Command


Date Raised : 1991-06-01 Location : Pune
HQ Western India based at Pune moved to Bombay and was redesignated as HQ Maritime Air Operations on 15 July 1971. As a result of this move, a need for an establishment at Pune was felt to liason with HQ Southern Command of the Indian Army. Consequently, Air Force Liaison Cell at Pune was setup on 7 July 1971. In May 1991 as a result of the reorganisation of the Indian Army Commands, AFLC at Pune was upgraded to an Adv HQ of SWAC. The staff from Adv HQ, CAC at Lucknow moved to Pune to take up this role. Adv HQ, SWAC supervises No. 2 and 12 TAC.
Unit previously existed as AFLC SWAC

Commanding Officers


01 Jun 91 - 30 Nov 92
Air Commodore
Manbir Singh
6771 GD(P)
AOC
Pune

29 Dec 92 - 30 Nov 93
Air Commodore
Inder Jit Singh Boparai
7691 GD(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Babu Ajit Kumar Shetty
10110 GD(P)
AOC
Pune

01 Aug 98 - 31 Mar 99
Air Commodore
Ramesh Vishwanath Phadke
10895 GD(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Prakash Prahalad Dani
12214 GD(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Rakesh Kacker
12951 F(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Ramesh Malhotra
13590 F(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Commodore
Amar Singh Ganpatrao Patil
13272 F(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Vice Marshal
Keshav Gopal Bewoor
13570 F(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Vice Marshal
Subramanyam Sukumar
14672 F(P)
AOC
Pune

01 Jun 12 - 30 Apr 15
Air Vice Marshal
Arjun Subramaniam
16592 F(P)
AOC
Pune

01 May 15 -
Air Vice Marshal
Thazhathupulikunnel Devasia Joseph
16964 F(P)
AOC
Pune

04 Jan 16 -
Air Vice Marshal
Amit Dev
16972 F(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Vice Marshal
Sanjeev Narayan Deshpande
16559 F(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown -
Air Vice Marshal
Mohan Kumar Rao
17343 F(P)
AOC
Pune

Unknown - 31 Jan 23
Air Vice Marshal
Anil Sabharwal
18553 F(P)
AOC
Pune

01 Feb 23 - 02 Jul 23
Air Vice Marshal
Samir Jayasinha Pendse
20495 F(P)
AOC
Pune

03 Jul 23 -
Air Vice Marshal
Ramamoorthy Ravi Shankar
20152 F(P)
AOC
Pune
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