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 Western Air CommandDate 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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Unit previously existed as Operational Command
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 10 Jun 63 - 22 Nov 63 Air Vice Marshal Erlic Wilmot Pinto 1593 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  24 Nov 63 - 30 Sep 64 Air Vice Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal 1567 GD(O) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Oct 64 - 04 Mar 66 Air Vice Marshal Ramaswami Rajaram 1573 GD(O) AOC-in-C Delhi |  05 Mar 66 - 29 Feb 68 Air Vice Marshal Shivdev Singh 1595 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | 01 Mar 68 - 31 Jul 69 Air Marshal Shivdev Singh 1595 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
 06 Aug 69 - 31 Mar 73 Air Marshal Minoo Merwan Engineer 1614 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Apr 73 - 31 Jan 76 Air Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar 1644 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Mar 76 - 03 Sep 78 Air Marshal Edul Jahangir Dhatigara 1899 GD(O) AOC-in-C Delhi |  04 Sep 78 - 31 Dec 80 Air Marshal Dilbagh Singh 2998 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  05 Jan 81 - 28 Feb 83 Air Marshal Lakshman Madhav Katre 3117 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
 01 Mar 83 - 03 Sep 84 Air Marshal Malcolm Shirley Dundas Wollen 3641 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Nov 84 - 02 Jul 85 Air Marshal Denis Anthony Lafontaine 3844 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  22 Aug 85 - 31 Jul 88 Air Marshal Man Mohan Singh 4023 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Aug 88 - 30 Apr 92 Air Marshal Pirthi Singh 4480 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 May 92 - 30 Jul 93 Air Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul 4721 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
 03 Sep 93 - 05 Jun 94 Air Marshal Pratap Rao 5188 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  06 Jun 94 - 31 Jul 95 Air Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen 5370 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Aug 95 - 31 Mar 97 Air Marshal Anil Yeshwant Tipnis 5859 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Apr 97 - 31 Oct 99 Air Marshal Vinod Patney 6125 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Nov 99 - 31 Jul 01 Air Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy 6338 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
 01 Aug 01 - 28 Apr 02 Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Bhatia 6497 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  29 Apr 02 - 16 Nov 03 Air Marshal Adi Rustomji Ghandhi 7722 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  17 Nov 03 - 31 Dec 04 Air Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi 8130 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jan 05 - 31 Jan 07 Air Marshal Avdesh Kumar Singh 11005 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Feb 07 - 31 Dec 07 Air Marshal Padamjit Singh Ahluwalia 11631 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
 01 Jan 08 - 31 May 09 Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora 12375 GD(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jun 09 - 31 Dec 10 Air Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne 13129 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jan 11 - 31 May 12 Air Marshal Dinesh Chandra Kumaria 13366 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jun 12 - 30 Jun 13 Air Marshal Arup Raha 13910 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jul 13 - 31 Aug 15 Air Marshal Suneet Shripad Soman 14681 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
 01 Sep 15 - 31 Dec 16 Air Marshal Shirish Baban Deo 15681 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jan 17 - 28 Feb 19 Air Marshal Chandrashekharan Hari Kumar 15881 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Mar 19 - 31 Oct 19 Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar 16378 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Nov 19 - 31 Jul 20 Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh 16206 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Aug 20 - 30 Jun 21 Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari 16978 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
 01 Jul 21 - 30 Sep 21 Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna 17326 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Oct 21 - 28 Feb 22 Air Marshal Amit Dev 16972 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Mar 22 - 31 Dec 22 Air Marshal Sreekumar Prabhakaran 17318 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jan 23 - 31 Dec 24 Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha 17842 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi |  01 Jan 25 - Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra 18575 F(P) AOC-in-C Delhi | |
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