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Senior Officers of the IAF - 1980 by Appointment1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |View by Seniority | Appointment | Date of Rank | ||||||
| Appointment, Unit | Rank & Name | Dates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAS, Air Head Quarters | Delhi | Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif (1804 GD(P)) | 1978-09-01 to 1981-08-31 | |||
| AOA, PSO: Administration, Air HQ | Delhi | Air Marshal Saroj Jena (3157 GD(P)) | 1979-03-01 to 1981-02-22 | |||
| AOC-in-C, No 1 Operational Group (SWAC) | Jodhpur | Air Marshal Jagdish Raj Bhasin (3591 GD(P)) | 1980-04-16 to 1980-07-22 | |||
| AOC-in-C, Central Air Command | Allahabad | Air Marshal Trilochan Singh Brar (2884 GD(P)) | 1979-02-10 to 1981-09-20 | |||
| AOC-in-C, Eastern Air Command | Shillong | Air Marshal Lakshman Madhav Katre (3117 GD(P)) | 1978-09-04 to 1981-01-02 | |||
| AOC-in-C, Maintenance Command | Nagpur | Air Marshal Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis (2964 GD(P)) | 1979-02-22 to 1980-02-29 | |||
| --------do--------- | Nagpur | Air Marshal Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole (3652 GD(P)) | 1980-04-18 to 1981-01-13 | |||
| AOC-in-C, South Western Air Command | Jodhpur | Air Marshal Jagdish Raj Bhasin (3591 GD(P)) | 1980-07-23 to 1983-06-30 | |||
| AOC-in-C, Training Command | Bangalore | Air Marshal Balwant Wickram Chauhan (3352 GD(P)) | 1979-10-29 to 1981-09-19 | |||
| AOC-in-C, Western Air Command | Delhi | Air Marshal Dilbagh Singh (2998 GD(P)) | 1978-09-04 to 1980-12-31 | |||
| AOM, PSO: Maintenance, Air HQ | Delhi | Air Marshal Chandrakant Shridhar Naik (3499 ENG) | 1978-09-01 to 1982-08-31 | |||
| Cmde Cmdt, No.1 Squadron | Air Marshal Trilochan Singh Brar (2884 GD(P)) | 1979-10-08 to 1985-10-31 | ||||
| Cmde Cmdt, No.6 Squadron | Air Marshal Gian Dev Sharma (1742 GD(P)) | 1975-05-01 to 1983-06-01 | ||||
| Cmdt, National Defence College | Delhi | Air Marshal Douglas George King-Lee (3040 GD(P)) | 1980-09-01 to 1982-08-01 | |||
| DCAS, PSO: Planning, Air HQ | Delhi | Air Marshal Lal Singh Grewal (2337 GD(P)) | 1978-08-24 to 1980-01-31 | |||
| --------do--------- | Delhi | Air Marshal Malcolm Shirley Dundas Wollen (3641 GD(P)) | 1980-04-16 to 1981-01-02 | |||
| VCAS, PSO: Operations, Air HQ | Delhi | Air Marshal Edul Jahangir Dhatigara (1899 GD(O)) | 1978-09-04 to 1980-01-31 | |||
| --------do--------- | Delhi | Air Marshal Lal Singh Grewal (2337 GD(P)) | 1980-02-01 to 1980-12-31 - Retired | |||
| ACAS (Flt Safety & Insp), PSO: Inspection & Safety, Air HQ | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Prem Pal Singh (3871 GD(P)) | 1979-03-19 to 1983-06-30 | |||
| ACAS (Logistics), Air Head Quarters | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Lareto Pestana Pereira (3705 EQPT) | 1979-11-01 to 1982-12-22 | |||
| ACAS (Ops), Air Operations, Air HQ | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Subramaniam Raghavendran (3840 GD(P)) | 1980-09-01 to 1983-09-01 | |||
| ACAS (Personnel), PSO: Personnel, Air HQ | Delhi | --Same as above-- | 1979-09-01 to 1980-09-01 | |||
| ACAS (Plans), Air Head Quarters | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Kapil Dev Chadha (3845 GD(P)) | 1979-02-10 to 1981-02-25 | |||
| AOC, Jammu & Kashmir | Udhampur | Air Vice Marshal Kenneth Hubert Larkins (3511 GD(P)) | 1979-09-01 to 1980-09-30 - Retired | |||
| AOC, Maritime Air Operations | Bombay | Air Vice Marshal Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra (3831 GD(N)) | 1978-08-25 to 1981-01-13 | |||
| AOC-in-C, No 1 Operational Group (SWAC) | Jodhpur | Air Vice Marshal Jagdish Raj Bhasin (3591 GD(P)) | 1978-08-29 to 1980-04-15 | |||
| Cmdt, Air Force Academy | Dundigal | Air Vice Marshal Terence Joseph Desa (3863 GD(P)) | 1979-10-24 to 1981-04-06 | |||
| Cmdt, National Defence Academy | Khadakvasla | Air Vice Marshal Minoo Jehangir Dotiwalla (3839 GD(P)) | 1979-07-09 to 1982-06-30 | |||
| Director (Fin Plan), Air Head Quarters | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Edwin Peter (3667 ACCTS) | 1980-12-15 to 1982-10-31 | |||
| DMS (Air), Air Head Quarters | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Amit Sen (4129 MED) | 1978-06-29 to 1980-03-31 - Retired | |||
| SASO, Central Air Command | Allahabad | Air Vice Marshal Chandan Singh (3460 GD(P)) | 1977-07-01 to 1980-03-02 | |||
| --------do--------- | Allahabad | Air Vice Marshal Ripu Daman Sahni (3867 GD(P)) | 1980-06-16 to 1982-02-21 | |||
| SASO, Central Air Command | Allahabad | Air Vice Marshal Surendra Nath Kawlra (3945 GD(P)) | 1980-03-21 to 1980-06-15 | |||
| SASO, Training Command | Bangalore | Air Vice Marshal Douglas George King-Lee (3040 GD(P)) | 1979-07-15 to 1980-08-30 | |||
| --------do--------- | Bangalore | Air Vice Marshal Eruch Shiavax Lala (3842 GD(P)) | 1980-11-01 to 1983-11-30 | |||
| SASO, Western Air Command | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Denis Anthony Lafontaine (3844 GD(P)) | 1978-11-22 to 1981-11-09 | |||
| SDS (Air), National Defence College | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Erasseri Pathayapurayil Radhakrishnan Nair (3837 GD(N)) | 1978-09-25 to 1981-02-23 | |||
| SMSO, Maintenance Command | Nagpur | Air Vice Marshal Mangalvedkar Jivanrao Vittal (3791 ENG) | 1979-09-20 to 1981-04-30 | |||
| SOA, Western Air Command | Delhi | Air Vice Marshal Shri Krishna Chandra Gupta (3568 A&SD) | 1979-07-01 to 1983-02-28 | |||
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