Chief Instructor (Air) Appointments at Defence Services Staff College


16 Jun 48 - 30 Jun 50
Group Captain
H S Darley
RAF
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 50 - 01 Jan 52
Group Captain
D I P Macnair
RAF
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jan 52 - 01 Jan 55
Group Captain
W G Mosery
RAF
CI (Air)
Wellington

17 Oct 55 - 26 May 58
Group Captain
Kundan Lal Sondhi
1566 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

27 May 58 - 31 May 60
Group Captain
Sarosh Jehangir Dastur
1792 GD(O)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 60 - 11 Jan 63
Group Captain
Syed Abbas Hussain
1706 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

12 Jan 63 - 31 Jul 64
Group Captain
Rointon Merwan Engineer
2120 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Aug 64 - 14 Jul 66
Group Captain
Surinder Singh Achreja
1987 GD(O)
CI (Air)
Wellington

24 Aug 66 - 25 Nov 67
Group Captain
Trilok Nath Ghadiok
2354 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

26 Nov 67 - 22 Nov 69
Group Captain
Virendra Mohan Bhatnagar
3067 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

23 Nov 69 - 20 Aug 72
Group Captain
Eruch Shiavax Lala
3842 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

21 Aug 72 - 31 May 75
Air Commodore
Rishab Chand Suchanti
3466 GD(N)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jun 75 - 06 Jul 76
Air Commodore
Saroj Jena
3157 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

23 Aug 76 - 16 Jan 77
Group Captain
Inder Dev Bhalla
4571 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

17 Jan 77 - 09 Feb 79
Air Commodore
Kapil Dev Chadha
3845 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

10 Feb 79 - 22 Nov 80
Air Commodore
Inder Dev Bhalla
4571 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

23 Nov 80 - 30 Jun 83
Air Commodore
Cecil Vivian Parker
4346 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 83 - 24 Nov 84
Air Commodore
Tapas Kumar Sen
4475 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jan 85 - 25 Nov 85
Air Vice Marshal
Mohinder Singh Bawa
4494 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

06 Apr 87 - 30 Jun 90
Air Vice Marshal
Amia Kumar Sen
4717 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 90 - 30 May 92
Air Vice Marshal
Kodendera Cariappa Cariappa
5376 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jun 92 - 01 Jun 93
Air Vice Marshal
Dev Nath Rathore
5780 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jun 93 - 30 Sep 96
Air Vice Marshal
Kapil Kak
6784 GD(N)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Oct 96 - 30 Jun 98
Air Vice Marshal
Satish Govind Inamdar
7189 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 98 - 31 Dec 99
Air Vice Marshal
Subhash Chandra Rastogi
8999 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jan 00 - 01 Mar 01
Air Vice Marshal
Ashok Kumar Goel
8151 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Mar 01 - 31 Mar 04
Air Vice Marshal
Allandur Sulochanan Gurunathan
10443 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Apr 04 - 30 Jun 06
Air Vice Marshal
Gurcharan Singh Bhogal
12504 GD(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 06 - 30 Jun 08
Air Vice Marshal
Virender Nath Kalia
13568 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 08 - 30 Jun 10
Air Vice Marshal
Rakesh Kumar Jolly
14083 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

14 Jun 10 - 31 Dec 10
Air Vice Marshal
Birender Singh Dhanoa
15405 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jan 11 - 30 Jun 12
Air Vice Marshal
Ramesh Rai
14669 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 12 - 30 Jun 14
Air Vice Marshal
Sanderraman Neelakantan
15184 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 14 - 30 Jun 16
Air Vice Marshal
Tejinder Pal Singh
16781 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Jul 16 - 30 Nov 18
Air Vice Marshal
Anil Golani
16986 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

01 Dec 18 - 31 Jan 20
Air Vice Marshal
Anil Tiwari
17160 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

Unknown - 31 Aug 22
Air Vice Marshal
Sanjeev Raj
18276 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

05 Sep 22 -
Air Vice Marshal
Manish Kumar Gupta
20439 F(P)
CI (Air)
Wellington

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