S.No
|
Name
|
Appointment Date
|
Left Office
|
Notes
|
1 |
Air commodore J. D. Aquino,
AVSM |
8 March 1970 |
28 June 1972 |
First commandant.
[1]
|
2 |
Air commodore
Lakshman Madhav Katre,
AVSM |
16 November 1972 |
26 December 1975 |
Later
Chief of the Air Staff.
|
3 |
Air Vice Marshal H. R. Chitnis,
AVSM,
VM |
5 January 1976
[n 1] |
2 May 1977 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
Maintenance Command.
|
4 |
Air Vice Marshal
Trilochan Singh Brar,
AVSM |
3 May 1978 |
14 August 1978 |
Later
Vice Chief of the Air Staff
|
5 |
Air Vice Marshal Balwant Wickram Chauhan,
AVSM |
14 August 1978 |
23 October 1979 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command and
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Central Air Command.
|
6 |
Air Vice Marshal Terence Joseph Desa |
24 October 1979 |
6 April 1981 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Air Command.
|
7 |
Air Vice Marshal Rajagopal Sriramulu Naidu,
VM |
13 April 1981 |
25 June 1983 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Air Command.
|
8 |
Air Vice Marshal
Cecil Vivian Parker,
MVC,
VM |
1 July 1983 |
20 March 1985 |
|
9 |
Air Vice Marshal Jagdish Kumar Seth,
AVSM,
VM |
25 March 1985 |
7 February 1986 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command.
|
10 |
Air Vice Marshal Har Krishan Oberai,
AVSM,
VM |
22 March 1986 |
30 December 1987 |
|
11 |
Air Vice Marshal Eric Lionel Allen,
AVSM,
VM |
19 January 1988 |
28 February 1990 |
|
12 |
Air Vice Marshal Manjunath Sadanand,
AVSM |
5 March 1990 |
30 November 1991 |
|
13 |
Air Vice Marshal P. K. Mani,
VM |
2 December 1991 |
30 September 1993 |
|
14 |
Air Vice Marshal
Krishnan Narayan Nair,
VM |
1 October 1993 |
20 December 1995 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Air Command and
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command.
|
15 |
Air Vice Marshal M. B. Madon,
VM
& bar |
21 December 1995 |
17 August 1998 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command.
|
16 |
Air Vice Marshal Jogendra Singh Sisodia,
AVSM,
VM |
18 August 1998 |
31 July 2000 |
|
16 |
Air Vice Marshal
Subhash Bhojwani,
AVSM,
VSM |
1 August 2000 |
5 June 2002 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command.
|
17 |
Air Vice Marshal Vinod Kumar Verma,
VM,
VSM |
1 July 2002 |
11 January 2004 |
Later
Inspector General of Flight Safety.
[3]
|
18 |
Air Vice Marshal Yashwant Rao Rane,
AVSM,
VM |
12 January 2004 |
31 August 2005 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Air Command.
|
19 |
Air Vice Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja,
AVSM,
VSM |
1 September 2005 |
29 February 2008 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command.
|
20 |
Air Vice Marshal K. J. Mathews,
AVSM,
YSM |
1 March 2008 |
31 August 2009 |
Later Commander-in-Chief,
Strategic Forces Command.
[4]
|
21 |
Air Vice Marshal Amit Aneja,
AVSM,
VM,
VSM |
1 September 2009 |
31 March 2011 |
[5]
|
22 |
Air Marshal Priya Ranjan Sharma,
AVSM |
1 April 2011 |
31 December 2012 |
[6]
|
23 |
Air Marshal R. G. Burli,
VM |
1 January 2013 |
30 June 2014 |
[7]
|
24 |
Air Marshal Gurinder Pal Singh,
VM |
1 July 2014 |
30 November 2016 |
[8]
|
25 |
Air Marshal
Amit Tiwari,
VM |
1 December 2016 |
3 September 2018 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Air Command and
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Central Air Command.
[8]
[9]
[10]
|
26 |
Air Marshal
Arvindra Singh Butola,
VM,
VSM |
4 September 2018 |
13 October 2019 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command.
[11]
|
27 |
Air Marshal
Jonnalagedda Chalapati,
VSM |
14 October 2019 |
31 July 2020 |
Current
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Air Command.
[12]
[13]
|
28 |
Air Marshal
Vipin Indira Panabhan Nayar,
AVSM,
VM |
1 August 2020 |
31 July 2021 |
Earlier
Commandant of the National Defence Academy.
[14]
|
29 |
Air Marshal
Sanjeev Kapoor,
AVSM,
VM |
1 August 2021 |
31 October 2021 |
Later
Commandant of the National Defence Academy.
[15]
|
30 |
Air Marshal
Sreekumar Prabhakaran,
AVSM,
VM |
1 November 2021 |
28 February 2022 |
Later
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Air Command.
|
31 |
Air Marshal
B Chandra Sekhar,
AVSM |
1 March 2022 |
31 August 2023 |
[16]
|
32 |
Air Marshal
Seethepalli Shrinivas,
VSM |
1 September 2023 |
Incumbent |
Current Commandant.
[17]
|