Maintenance Command

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File:Dedication of HPT-32 to Raman Science Centre.jpg
Air Marshal Hemant Sharma, AVSM, VSM, handing over the aircraft HPT-32 to Narayan Ramdas Iyer at Raman Science Centre on 15 December 2017

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.

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)
Unit Location Function Ref
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]
List of Equipment Depots (ED)[3]
Unit Location Function Ref
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

List of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
Rank Name From To
Group Captain Harjinder Singh Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Air commodore Template:Dts Template:Dts
Air Vice Marshal Template:Dts Template:Dts
Om Prakash Mehra Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Hirendra Nath Chatterjee Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Hari Chand Dewan Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Air Marshal Gurbachan Singh Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Anand Ramdas Pandit Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Idris Hasan Latif Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Devaiah Subia Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Jafar Zaheer Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Satish Chandra Lal Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Madan Lal Sethi Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Kuldip Singh Bhatia Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Sibaprasad Chakrabarti Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Indrakanty Gopala Krishna Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Rajamani Ramamurthy Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Ramesh Chandra Bajpai Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Ghanshyam Gururani Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Shanti Swaroop Gupta Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Dinesh Chandra Nigam Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Vijay Adhyutrao Patkar Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Jayant Satchidanand Apte Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Gautam Nayyar Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Pramod Vasant Athawale Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Jagdish Chandra Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Packiriswamy Kanakaraj Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Jagjeet Singh Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Pankaj Aneja Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Hemant Sharma Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Raj Karan Singh Shera Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Shashiker Choudhary Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts
Vibhas Pande Template:Dts[27] Template:Dts[27]
Vijay Kumar Garg Template:Dts[27] Incumbent

See also

References

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