Air Defence FlightDate Raised : 1980-03-15 Location : Gorakhpur C&R Flight was rasied with the role primary role of Practice Interception training to Fighter Controllers of the C&R School, later renamed as Air Defence College. The flight also got renamed to Air Defence Flight at that time. Initially it was equipt with Vampire 52 and co-located with the school at AFFC, Jodhpur. Sometime in mid 1970s it moved to BKT and in 1975 it was reequipped with the Marut and located at Kanpur. It moved to BKT in 1980. Thereafter in 1983 it was requipped with the the MiG-21 T-77. Tt moved to Bareilly in 1992, changed to T-96 in 1996 and merged with the 102 Sqn in 1998. Flight moved back to BKT on 15 June 1999. It was numberplated on 30 June 2006. The Unit has been resurrected on the Kiran MK-II at Gorakhpur in Sep 2015
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Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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15 Mar 80 to 31 Jul 81 | Squadron Leader Indarjit Dass | 9059 GD(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab | |
08 Aug 81 to 17 Jun 83 | Wing Commander Aditya Vikram Pethia | 8384 GD(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab | |
18 Jun 83 to 13 Jun 84 | Wing Commander Seranjit Singh Bassley | 8440 GD(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab | |
14 Jun 84 to 28 Dec 84 | Wing Commander Chandrashekhar Ramachandra Dantale | 8944 GD(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab | |
29 Dec 84 to 06 Jul 86 | Wing Commander Arun Kumar Singh | 9521 GD(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab | |
07 Jul 86 to 03 Jul 88 | Wing Commander Om Prakash Sharma | 10869 GD(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab | |
04 Jul 88 to 03 Apr 91 | Wing Commander Maheshwarsingh Thakursingh Baran | 10868 GD(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab | |
04 Apr 91 to 31 Dec 92 | Wing Commander Abhay Gupta | 13241 F(P) | CO | Bakshi-Ka-Talab/ Bar | |
01 Jan 93 to | Wing Commander Nirbhay Kumar Jain | 13576 F(P) | CO | Bareilly | |
Unknown to | Wing Commander Milind Vasant Golwalkar | 13790 F(P) | CO | Bareilly | |
01 Jan 96 to 31 May 97 | Wing Commander Subramanyam Sukumar | 14672 F(P) | CO | Bareilly | |