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Maintenance Command
Indian Air Force functional command

Maintenance Command is a command of the Indian Air Force. It was raised as Maintenance Group at Chakeri in Kanpur in 1950. In 1955, it was designated as Maintenance Command. Its current headquarters is located at Vayusena Nagar in Nagpur (Maharashtra); it handles the repair, overhaul and maintenance of all aircraft, helicopters and other equipment. MC has about nine Base Repair Depots taking care of the overhaul and maintenance of various types of aircraft.

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History

The Maintenance Command was established on 26 January 1955. Group Captain Harjinder Singh was the first Commanding Officer (CO). Harjinder Singh, a legendary engineering officer with many firsts to his credit was at the helm of the command until his retirement in 1963. The appointment of the CO was upgraded to Air Officer Commanding (AOC) in 1958 when Singh was promoted to Air Commodore.1 It was further upgraded to Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) when he was promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal. In 1971, the appointment of AOC-in-C was upgraded to the three-star rank of Air Marshal.2

Organisation

The command has several types of Base Repair Depots (BRD) (for overhaul, maintenance) and Equipment Depots (ED) (storage of spares, equipment, sub-systems). They are categorised by their specialisation and functions. These units are commanded by an officer of rank Air Commodre.3

List of Base Repair Depots (BRD)
UnitLocationFunctionRef
1 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft)KanpurAn-32 overhaul4
3 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft & Engine)ChandigarhMi-17, Mi-26, Mi-35 overhaul56
4 Base Repair Depot (Engine)KanpurR 29 engine (MiG-23/27) + M53 engine (Mirage 2000)7
5 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft)SulurHS 748, Trainer aircraft overhaul8
7 Base Repair Depot (Systems)TughlakabadMissiles, Radars, etc.9
8 Base Repair Depot (Systems)Avadi10
9 Base Repair Depot (Systems)Pune11
11 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft)OjharMiG-23, MiG-29 overhaul12
12 Base Repair Depot (Systems)NafdarjungParachute and safety system13
13 Base Repair Depot (Systems)Palam14
14 Base Repair Depot (Systems)BorjharRadar maintenance15
15 Base Repair Depot (Systems)VadsarCommunication equipment16
16 Base Repair Depot (Systems)PalamParachute and safety system17
List of Equipment Depots (ED)18
UnitLocationFunctionRef
23 Equipment DepotAvadi19
24 Equipment DepotManauriSpare storage of Jaguar, Avro, C-295 and Dornier aircraft; Chetak, Cheetah and Dhruv helicopters and RPA2021
25 Equipment DepotDevlaliSpare storage of MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-27 and Su-30MKI22
26 Equipment DepotBangaloreRotables of Jaguar, Cheetah, Chetak, Avro, Kiran; line spares of Jaguar and engines23
27 Equipment DepotTughlakabad24
28 Equipment DepotAmliArmament and ammunition25
29 Equipment DepotKanpurSupplies parts to 1 and 4 BRD26
41 (Mini) Equipment DepotBidarSpares of MiG-2527
42 (Mini) Equipment DepotGwaliorProvides support to 40 Wing IAF, Maharajpur AFS28
43 (Mini) Equipment DepotHakimpet
44 (Mini) Equipment DepotDundingal
45 (Mini) Equipment DepotAgraSpares support for Ilyushin Il-76 and Ilyushin Il-78MKI based in Agra AFS.29
49 (Mini) Equipment DepotN/A

There are other units which are based under Maintenance Command30

  • Air Force Liaison Establishments (functions as an interface between IAF and HAL)
  • 31 Movement Control Unit (MCU) at Palam AFS [previously Passenger and Freight (P&F) Forwarding Section]
  • 32 Movement Control Unit (MCU) at Terminal 1 Mumbai Airport [previously Air Freight & Passenger (Mov) Unit]
  • 33 Movement Control Unit (MCU) at Guwahati Airport

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief

List of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
RankNameFromTo
Group CaptainHarjinder Singh25 January 19553123 March 1958
Air commodore24 March 195814 May 1959
Air Vice Marshal15 May 19592 August 1963
Om Prakash Mehra3 August 19633217 February 1967
Hirendra Nath Chatterjee18 February 19673331 March 1968
Hari Chand Dewan1 April 19683423 March 1971
Air MarshalGurbachan Singh24 March 19713531 March 1973
Anand Ramdas Pandit1 April 19733629 February 1976
Idris Hasan Latif1 March 19763719 May 1977
Devaiah Subia20 May 19773831 July 1978
Jafar Zaheer24 August 19783919 January 1979
Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis22 February 19794029 February 1980
Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole18 April 19804113 January 1981
Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra14 January 19814231 January 1985
Satish Chandra Lal1 February 19854331 December 1982
Madan Lal Sethi1 January 19864431 October 1987
Kuldip Singh Bhatia1 November 19874530 April 1989
Sibaprasad Chakrabarti1 May 19894631 January 1991
Indrakanty Gopala Krishna1 February 19914730 June 1993
Rajamani Ramamurthy1 July 19934831 December 1994
Ramesh Chandra Bajpai1 January 19954931 October 1996
Ghanshyam Gururani1 November 19965031 July 1997
Shanti Swaroop Gupta1 August 19975130 April 2002
Dinesh Chandra Nigam1 May 20025230 April 2004
Vijay Adhyutrao Patkar6 July 20045330 April 2005
Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi16 May 20055431 March 2007
Jayant Satchidanand Apte2 April 20075530 November 2007
Gautam Nayyar1 December 20075631 March 2009
Pramod Vasant Athawale1 April 20095731 August 2011
Jagdish Chandra1 September 20115830 June 2013
Packiriswamy Kanakaraj1 July 20135930 November 2014
Jagjeet Singh1 December 20146031 March 2016
Pankaj Aneja1 April 20166131 May 2017
Hemant Sharma1 June 20176231 January 2019
Raj Karan Singh Shera1 February 20196331 December 2019
Shashiker Choudhary1 January 20206431 May 2022
Vibhas Pande14 June 20226531 May 202466
Vijay Kumar Garg1 June 202467Incumbent

See also

References

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