South Western Air Command

Template:More footnotes Template:Use Indian English Template:Short description The South Western Air Command (SWAC) is one of the five operational commands of the Indian Air Force, headquartered in Gandhinagar. It was raised in Jodhpur in July 1980 from the No.1 Operations Group of the Western Air Command. Its operations sector includes most of Rajasthan, through Gujarat and Saurashtra, as far south as Kutch and Pune. The SWAC moved to its current headquarters in Gandhinagar in May 1998, and incorporates the Indian airbases of Bhuj, Jaisalmer, Phalodi, Naliya, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Uttarlai/Barmer and Pune. It controls air operations in the south western air sector, which includes most of Rajasthan, and south through Gujarat to Saurashtra, and Kutch to Pune. It also operates the forward airbases at Vadodara, Nal and Suratgarh. The SWAC's role has historically been largely of air defence, although it has been reported to have incorporated a strike profile.

Organisation

Squadrons include:

Squadron	Base	Equipment	Notes
No. 20 Squadron IAF	Lohegaon Air Force Station	Su-30MKI	No. 2 Wing
No. 30 Squadron IAF	Lohegaon Air Force Station	Su-30MKI	No. 2 Wing
No. 15 Squadron IAF	Bhuj Air Force Station	Su-30 MKI	No. 27 Wing
No. 31 Squadron IAF	Jodhpur Air Force Station	Su-30 MKI	No.32 Wing
No. 107 Helicopter Unit, IAF	Jodhpur Air Force Station	Mi-8	No. 32 Wing
No. 116 Helicopter Unit, IAF	Jodhpur Air Force Station	HAL Chetak	No. 32 Wing
No. 119 Helicopter Unit, IAF	Jodhpur Air Force Station	Mi-8	No. 32 Wing
No. 143 Helicopter Unit, IAF	Jodhpur Air Force Station	HAL Prachand
No. 6 Squadron IAF	Jamnagar Air Force Station	JaguarIS/IM/IB	No. 33 Wing
No. 28 Squadron IAF	Jamnagar Air Force Station	Mig 29	No.33 Wing
No. 141 SSS Flight, IAF	Jamnagar Air Force Station	HAL Chetak	No. 33 Wing IAF
No. 18 Squadron IAF	Naliya Air Force Station	HAL Tejas	No. 49 Wing
No. 23 Squadron IAF	Suratgarh Air Force Station	Mig-21	No. 35 Wing IAF
No. 104 Helicopter Squadron, IAF	Suratgarh Air Force Station	Mi-35	No. 35 Wing
No. 11 Squadron IAF	Vadodara Air Force Station	Airbus C295	No. 36 Wing
No. 44 Squadron IAF	Nagpur Air Force Station	Il-76MD	No. 44 Wing
No. 4 Squadron IAF	Uttarlai Air Force Station	MiG-21 Bison	No. 5 FBSU

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief

List of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief

Rank	Name	From	To
Air Marshal	Jagdish Raj Bhasin	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Subramaniam Raghavendran	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Prem Pal Singh	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Surendra Kumar Mehra	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Partha Kumar Dey	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Brijesh Dhar Jayal	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Satish Kumar Sareen	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Kodendera Cariappa Cariappa	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Sharadkumar Ramakrishna Deshpande	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Vinod Kumar Bhatia	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Michael McMahon	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Shashindra Pal Tyagi	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Adi Rustomji Ghandhi	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Satish Kumar Jain	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Pramod Kumar Mehra	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Kanwar Dalinderjit Singh	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Paramjit Singh Bhangu	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Anjan Kumar Gogoi	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Daljit Singh	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Birender Singh Dhanoa	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Ravinder Kumar Dhir	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Harjit Singh Arora	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Surendra Kumar Ghotia	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Sandeep Singh	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Vikram Singh	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Narmdeshwar Tiwari	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Nagesh Kapoor	Template:Dts	Incumbent

External links

• Bharat-Rakshak.com, IAF COMMAND STRUCTURE