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Air Training Command
Emblem of the Training Air Command
Founded	22 July 1949
Country	India
Branch	Indian Air Force
Type	Operational Air Command
Role	Flying and ground training.
Headquarters	Bangalore,Karnataka
Mottos	Sanskrit:Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya "From darkness, lead us unto Light"
Commanders
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief	Air MarshalTejinder Singh,AVSM,VM

Training Command is theIndian Air Force's command responsible for flying and ground training.

In the 1930s, the approaching threat and later advent ofWorld War II and the leaning of Japan towards the Axis powers, the latter was considered as a potential enemy. Therefore, need was felt to make IAF a self-supporting force for the South Eastern Theatre of war. This led to the rapid expansion of the IAF. A target was fixed of 10 IAF Squadrons. With this expansion, the requirement of pilots and technical personnel increased. For the training of technical personnel, a technical training school was set up at Ambala in 1940.

In a 1949 reorganisation of the Indian Air Force, while frontline units were put under the Operations Command, all the training institutions were placed under the jurisdiction of the Training Command.^[1]

Among Training Command's units is theNavigation Training School atBegumpet Air Force Station,Hyderabad. It flies theBAe HS. 748,^[2] theBasic Flying Training School and theAir Force Administrative College. TheHawk Operational Training Squadron and Weapon System Operators' School are located atBidar Air Force Station which flows theHawk Mk 132 trainer aircraft.

Before and during the early years of Training Command’s establishment, the Indian Air Force relied on British-origin trainer aircraft such as the de Havilland Tiger Moth, Percival Prentice, and the North American Harvard to train successive batches of pilots. These aircraft formed the bedrock of IAF’s basic and advanced flight training from the 1930s through the 1950s, before being gradually replaced by indigenous and jet-powered platforms. A detailed account of this evolution has been documented in:^[3]

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• Sarkar, M. C. (1962).Hindustan year-book and who's who. Retrieved2009-04-17.

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• Military units and formations of the Indian Air Force
• Military units and formations established in 1949

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