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5 Tactical Air Center

Motto : Samvayi hi Durjayaha (Together we are invincible)
Date Raised : 1961-06-19 Location : Tezpur
5 TAC is attached to the Gajraj Corps and was raised at Kohima. It moved to Tezpur in 1962 and remains so till date. It had brief periods during 1971 war (Comilla) and IPKF ops (Vayunia and Batticoloa) where it moved out with the Corps for ops.

Commanding Officers


19 Jun 61 - 28 Oct 62
Group Captain
Ramdas Shivram Shipurkar
2177 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

29 Oct 62 - 01 Aug 63
Group Captain
Anil Kanta Ganguly
1677 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Aug 63 - 31 Jan 65
Group Captain
Arjan Singh Mangharam Bhawnani
1868 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Feb 65 - 01 Apr 67
Group Captain
Leslie Richard Dickinson Blunt
1994 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

23 Apr 67 - 26 Sep 67
Group Captain
Evans Lionel Birch
3487 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

27 Sep 67 - 31 Oct 67
Group Captain
Rishab Chand Suchanti
3466 GD(N)
CO
Tezpur

01 Apr 68 - 01 Dec 69
Group Captain
Krishan Lal Suri
2907 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Dec 69 - 01 Jan 73
Group Captain
Rajagopalan Krishnamurthy
3386 GD(N)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jan 73 - 01 May 74
Group Captain
Samuel Venkatarao
3830 GD(N)
CO
Tezpur

01 May 74 - 31 Jul 76
Group Captain
Rama Iyer Krishnamoorti
3828 GD(N)
CO
Tezpur

01 Aug 76 - 30 Sep 79
Group Captain
Ram Sharan Gambhir
4560 GD(N)
CO
Tezpur

01 Dec 79 - 31 May 81
Group Captain
Hardip Singh Goraya
4808 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Nov 81 - 31 Jan 83
Group Captain
Muhamed Abdul Rehman
5711 GD(N)
CO
Tezpur

01 Feb 83 - 01 Mar 85
Group Captain
R Varma

CO
Tezpur

01 Mar 85 - 16 Nov 86
Group Captain
Raja Singh Dhanjal
6341 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Mar 87 - 01 Oct 89
Group Captain
Tejwant Singh
7228 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Oct 89 - 16 Mar 92
Group Captain
Balbinder Singh Marwaha
9714 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

17 Mar 92 - 30 Jun 94
Group Captain
Vijay Kumar
8386 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Sep 94 - 01 Jun 97
Group Captain
Narendra Pratap Sahi
12037 GD(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jun 97 - 01 Jan 00
Group Captain
Ashok Kumar Malhotra
14112 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jan 00 - 01 Nov 02
Group Captain
H S Arvind Kumar
13157 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jan 03 - 01 Jul 04
Group Captain
Ranjit Kumar Bora
12927 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jul 04 - 30 Apr 06
Group Captain
Sudhir Vishwamurti Bal
15552 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 May 06 - 30 Apr 08
Group Captain
Kaushik Pathak
15715 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jun 08 - 01 Mar 09
Group Captain
Umesh Kumar
18582 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Mar 09 - 01 Jun 10
Group Captain
Ashwin Keshav Puntambekar
19210 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jul 12 - 01 May 14
Group Captain
Paramvir Bakshi
19911 F(P)
CO
Tezpur

01 Jul 17 - 30 Jun 19
Group Captain
Mahesh Balwant Upasani
22193 F(N)
CO
Tezpur
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