Western Air Command Date Raised : 1963-06-10 Location : Delhi At the time of independence, the Air Force were organised into two groups. The No 1 Operational Group controlled all the flying Unitss including the flying training Unitss. On 22nd July 1949 the No 1 Operational Group was re- designated as the Operational Command. The Air Officer Commanding the Operational Command was then of the rank of an Air Commodore. This was upgraded to the rank of Air Vice Marshal in 1958 and later to the rank of Air Marshal. The Command assumed its present name of Headquarters Western Air Command on 1th June 1963, primarily as a consequence of formation of other operational commands and demarcation of specific areas of responsibility. Read Detailed History
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10 Jun 63 - 22 Nov 63Air Vice MarshalErlic Wilmot Pinto1593 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 24 Nov 63 - 30 Sep 64Air Vice MarshalPratap Chandra Lal1567 GD(O)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Oct 64 - 04 Mar 66Air Vice MarshalRamaswami Rajaram1573 GD(O)AOC-in-CDelhi | 05 Mar 66 - 29 Feb 68Air Vice MarshalShivdev Singh1595 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Mar 68 - 31 Jul 69Air MarshalShivdev Singh1595 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | |
06 Aug 69 - 31 Mar 73Air MarshalMinoo Merwan Engineer1614 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Apr 73 - 31 Jan 76Air MarshalHrushikesh Moolgavkar1644 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Mar 76 - 03 Sep 78Air MarshalEdul Jahangir Dhatigara1899 GD(O)AOC-in-CDelhi | 04 Sep 78 - 31 Dec 80Air MarshalDilbagh Singh2998 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 05 Jan 81 - 28 Feb 83Air MarshalLakshman Madhav Katre3117 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | |
01 Mar 83 - 03 Sep 84Air MarshalMalcolm Shirley Dundas Wollen3641 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Nov 84 - 02 Jul 85Air MarshalDenis Anthony Lafontaine3844 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 22 Aug 85 - 31 Jul 88Air MarshalMan Mohan Singh4023 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Aug 88 - 30 Apr 92Air MarshalPirthi Singh4480 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 May 92 - 30 Jul 93Air MarshalSwaroop Krishna Kaul4721 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | |
03 Sep 93 - 05 Jun 94Air MarshalPratap Rao5188 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 06 Jun 94 - 31 Jul 95Air MarshalSatish Kumar Sareen5370 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Aug 95 - 31 Mar 97Air MarshalAnil Yeshwant Tipnis5859 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Apr 97 - 31 Oct 99Air MarshalVinod Patney6125 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Nov 99 - 31 Jul 01Air MarshalSrinivasapuram Krishnaswamy6338 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | |
01 Aug 01 - 28 Apr 02Air MarshalVinod Kumar Bhatia6497 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 29 Apr 02 - 16 Nov 03Air MarshalAdi Rustomji Ghandhi7722 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 17 Nov 03 - 31 Dec 04Air MarshalShashindra Pal Tyagi8130 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Jan 05 - 31 Jan 07Air MarshalAvdesh Kumar Singh11005 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Feb 07 - 31 Dec 07Air MarshalPadamjit Singh Ahluwalia11631 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | |
01 Jan 08 - 31 May 09Air MarshalPranab Kumar Barbora12375 GD(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Jun 09 - 31 Dec 10Air MarshalNorman Anil Kumar Browne13129 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Jan 11 - 31 May 12Air MarshalDinesh Chandra Kumaria13366 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 13Air MarshalArup Raha13910 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Jul 13 - 31 Aug 15Air MarshalSuneet Shripad Soman14681 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | |
01 Sep 15 - 31 Dec 16Air MarshalShirish Baban Deo15681 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Jan 17 - 28 Feb 19Air MarshalChandrashekharan Hari Kumar15881 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Mar 19 - 31 Oct 19Air MarshalRaghunath Nambiar16378 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Nov 19 - 31 Jul 20Air MarshalBalakrishnan Suresh16206 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Aug 20 - 30 Jun 21Air MarshalVivek Ram Chaudhari16978 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | |
01 Jul 21 - 30 Sep 21Air MarshalBalabhadra Radha Krishna17326 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Oct 21 - 28 Feb 22Air MarshalAmit Dev16972 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Mar 22 - 31 Dec 22Air MarshalSreekumar Prabhakaran17318 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi | 01 Jan 23 - Air MarshalPankaj Mohan Sinha17842 F(P)AOC-in-CDelhi |