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.
Maintenance Command | |
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Founded | 26 January 1955 |
Country | India |
Branch | Indian Air Force |
Type | Support |
Headquarters | Nagpur, Maharashtra |
Motto(s) | Sarvada Gagenecharet (Sanskrit: Always Flying in the Sky) |
Commanders | |
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief | Air Marshal Vijay Kumar Garg |
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History
editThe 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
editThe 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]
Unit | Location | Function | Ref |
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1 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft) | Kanpur | An-32 overhaul | [3] |
3 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft & Engine) | Chandigarh | Mi-17, Mi-26, Mi-35 overhaul | [3][4] |
4 Base Repair Depot (Engine) | Kanpur | R 29 engine (MiG-23/27) + M53 engine (Mirage 2000) | [5] |
5 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft) | Sulur | HS 748, Trainer aircraft overhaul | [6] |
7 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Tughlakabad | Missiles, Radars, etc. | [7] |
8 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Avadi | [8] | |
9 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Pune | [9] | |
11 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft) | Ojhar | MiG-23, MiG-29 overhaul | [10] |
12 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Nafdarjung | Parachute and safety system | [11] |
13 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Palam | [12] | |
14 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Borjhar | Radar maintenance | [13] |
15 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Vadsar | Communication equipment | [14] |
16 Base Repair Depot (Systems) | Palam | Parachute and safety system | [15] |
Unit | Location | Function | Ref |
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23 Equipment Depot | Avadi | [16] | |
24 Equipment Depot | Manauri | Spare storage of Jaguar, Avro, C-295 and Dornier aircraft; Chetak, Cheetah and Dhruv helicopters and RPA | [17][18] |
25 Equipment Depot | Devlali | Spare storage of MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-27 and Su-30MKI | [19] |
26 Equipment Depot | Bangalore | Rotables of Jaguar, Cheetah, Chetak, Avro, Kiran; line spares of Jaguar and engines | [20] |
27 Equipment Depot | Tughlakabad | [21] | |
28 Equipment Depot | Amli | Armament and ammunition | [22] |
29 Equipment Depot | Kanpur | Supplies parts to 1 and 4 BRD | [23] |
41 (Mini) Equipment Depot | Bidar | Spares of MiG-25 | [24] |
42 (Mini) Equipment Depot | Gwalior | Provides support to 40 Wing IAF, Maharajpur AFS | [25] |
43 (Mini) Equipment Depot | Hakimpet | ||
44 (Mini) Equipment Depot | Dundingal | ||
45 (Mini) Equipment Depot | Agra | Spares support for Ilyushin Il-76 and Ilyushin Il-78MKI based in Agra AFS. | [26] |
49 (Mini) Equipment Depot | N/A |
There are other units which are based under Maintenance Command[3]
- 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
editRank | Name | From | To |
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Group Captain | Harjinder Singh | 25 January 1955[27] | 23 March 1958 |
Air commodore | 24 March 1958 | 14 May 1959 | |
Air Vice Marshal | 15 May 1959 | 2 August 1963 | |
Om Prakash Mehra | 3 August 1963[27] | 17 February 1967 | |
Hirendra Nath Chatterjee | 18 February 1967[27] | 31 March 1968 | |
Hari Chand Dewan | 1 April 1968[27] | 23 March 1971 | |
Air Marshal | Gurbachan Singh | 24 March 1971[27] | 31 March 1973 |
Anand Ramdas Pandit | 1 April 1973[27] | 29 February 1976 | |
Idris Hasan Latif | 1 March 1976[27] | 19 May 1977 | |
Devaiah Subia | 20 May 1977[27] | 31 July 1978 | |
Jafar Zaheer | 24 August 1978[27] | 19 January 1979 | |
Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis | 22 February 1979[27] | 29 February 1980 | |
Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole | 18 April 1980[27] | 13 January 1981 | |
Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra | 14 January 1981[27] | 31 January 1985 | |
Satish Chandra Lal | 1 February 1985[27] | 31 December 1982 | |
Madan Lal Sethi | 1 January 1986[27] | 31 October 1987 | |
Kuldip Singh Bhatia | 1 November 1987[27] | 30 April 1989 | |
Sibaprasad Chakrabarti | 1 May 1989[27] | 31 January 1991 | |
Indrakanty Gopala Krishna | 1 February 1991[27] | 30 June 1993 | |
Rajamani Ramamurthy | 1 July 1993[27] | 31 December 1994 | |
Ramesh Chandra Bajpai | 1 January 1995[27] | 31 October 1996 | |
Ghanshyam Gururani | 1 November 1996[27] | 31 July 1997 | |
Shanti Swaroop Gupta | 1 August 1997[27] | 30 April 2002 | |
Dinesh Chandra Nigam | 1 May 2002[27] | 30 April 2004 | |
Vijay Adhyutrao Patkar | 6 July 2004[27] | 30 April 2005 | |
Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi | 16 May 2005[27] | 31 March 2007 | |
Jayant Satchidanand Apte | 2 April 2007[27] | 30 November 2007 | |
Gautam Nayyar | 1 December 2007[27] | 31 March 2009 | |
Pramod Vasant Athawale | 1 April 2009[27] | 31 August 2011 | |
Jagdish Chandra | 1 September 2011[27] | 30 June 2013 | |
Packiriswamy Kanakaraj | 1 July 2013[27] | 30 November 2014 | |
Jagjeet Singh | 1 December 2014[27] | 31 March 2016 | |
Pankaj Aneja | 1 April 2016[27] | 31 May 2017 | |
Hemant Sharma | 1 June 2017[27] | 31 January 2019 | |
Raj Karan Singh Shera | 1 February 2019[27] | 31 December 2019 | |
Shashiker Choudhary | 1 January 2020[27] | 31 May 2022 | |
Vibhas Pande | 14 June 2022[27] | 31 May 2024[27] | |
Vijay Kumar Garg | 1 June 2024[27] | Incumbent |
See also
editReferences
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