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| Rank & Name | Appointment, Unit | Dates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee (1551 GD(P)) | CAS, Air Head Quarters | Delhi | 1955-04-01 to 1960-11-08 | |||
| Air Commodore Surendra Nath Goyal (1560 GD(P)) | AOC, Advance HQ, Operational Command | Simla | 1958-05-28 to 1959-12-10 | |||
| --Same as above-- | Cmdt, School of Land and Air Warfare | Secunderabad | 1959-12-11 to 1961-03-31 | |||
| Air Vice Marshal Diwan Atma Ram Nanda (1562 GD(P)) | DCAS, PSO: Operations, Air HQ | Delhi | 1958-05-01 to 1962-12-31 | |||
| Air Commodore Kundan Lal Sondhi (1566 GD(P)) | Cmdt, Land Air Warfare School | Secunderabad | 1958-05-27 to 1959-07-13 | |||
| --Same as above-- | Cmdt, School of Land and Air Warfare | Secunderabad | 1959-07-14 to 1959-12-07 | |||
| ---On Promotion to Air Vice Marshal --- | AOC-in-C, Eastern Air Command | Calcutta | 1959-12-07 to 1961-12-28 | |||
| Air Vice Marshal Arjan Singh (1577 GD(P)) | AOC-in-C, Operational Command | Delhi | 1958-05-01 to 1959-11-17 | |||
| Air Commodore Kanwar Jaswant Singh (1587 GD(P)) | AOC, Training Command | Bangalore | 1958-05-27 to 1959-03-22 | |||
| Air Commodore Mohan Swaroop Chaturvedi (1592 GD(O)) | AOM, PSO: Maintenance, Air HQ | Delhi | 1958-05-28 to 1962-03-05 | |||
| Air Commodore Erlic Wilmot Pinto (1593 GD(P)) | AOA, PSO: Administration, Air HQ | Delhi | 1958-05-28 to 1959-12-06 | |||
| ---On Promotion to Air Vice Marshal --- | AOC-in-C, Operational Command | Delhi | 1959-11-18 to 1963-06-09 | |||
| Air Commodore Ranjan Dutt (1594 GD(P)) | Director (Policy and Plan, Air Head Quarters | Delhi | 1958-05-28 to 1959-03-23 | |||
| --Same as above-- | AOC, Training Command | Bangalore | 1959-03-23 to 1960-04-12 | |||
| Air Commodore Shivdev Singh (1595 GD(P)) | AOC, No 1 Operational Group (EAC) | Calcutta | 1958-05-27 to 1959-12-06 | |||
| Air Commodore Minoo Merwan Engineer (1614 GD(P)) | SASO, Operational Command | Delhi | 1959-04-15 to 1960-04-24 | |||
| Air Commodore Hirendra Nath Chatterjee (1620 GD(P)) | Director (Policy and Plan, Air Head Quarters | Delhi | 1959-03-24 to 1960-01-22 | |||
| Air Commodore Hrushikesh Moolgavkar (1644 GD(P)) | Air Advisor, High Commission of India, United Kingdom | London | 1959-02-22 to 1962-06-11 | |||
| Air Commodore Harjinder Singh (1963 ENG) | AOC-in-C, Maintenance Command | Kanpur | 1958-03-24 to 1959-05-14 | |||
| ---On Promotion to Air Vice Marshal --- | AOC-in-C, Maintenance Command | Kanpur | 1959-05-15 to 1963-08-02 | |||
| Air Vice Marshal Shiv Prashad Bhatia (5023 MED) | DMS (Air), Air Head Quarters | Delhi | 1958-05-01 to 1959-11-15 | |||
| Air Commodore Behari Lal Kapur (5770 MED) | DMS (Air), Air Head Quarters | Delhi | 1959-11-16 to 1961-11-05 | |||
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