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South Western Air Command, Indian Air Force
Emblem of the South Western Air Command
Founded23 July 1980
CountryIndia
BranchIndian Air Force
TypeOperational Air Command
RoleAir Defence,Maritime strike role.
HeadquartersGandhinagar
MottosSanskrit:Jai Shree Varte Veeramh
Victory embraces the brave
EngagementsAtlantique incident,Bhuj earthquake relief, 2001,Gujarat flood relief, 2005
Commanders
Air Officer Commanding-in-ChiefAir MarshalNagesh Kapoor,PVSM,AVSM,VM[1]
Military unit

TheSouth Western Air Command (SWAC) is one of the five operational commands of theIndian Air Force, headquartered inGandhinagar. It was raised inJodhpur in July 1980 from the No.1 Operations Group of theWestern Air Command. Its operations sector includes most ofRajasthan, throughGujarat andSaurashtra, as far south asKutch andPune. The SWAC moved to its current headquarters inGandhinagar in May 1998, and incorporates the Indian airbases ofBhuj,Jaisalmer,Phalodi,Naliya,Jamnagar,Jodhpur,Uttarlai/Barmer andPune. 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 atVadodara,Nal andSuratgarh. The SWAC's role has historically been largely of air defence, although it has been reported to have incorporated a strike profile.

Organisation

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Squadrons include:

SquadronBaseEquipmentNotes
No. 20 Squadron IAFLohegaon Air Force StationSu-30MKINo. 2 Wing
No. 30 Squadron IAFLohegaon Air Force StationSu-30MKINo. 2 Wing
No. 15 Squadron IAFBhuj Air Force StationSu-30 MKINo. 27 Wing
No. 31 Squadron IAFJodhpur Air Force StationSu-30 MKINo.32 Wing
No. 107 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationMi-8No. 32 Wing
No. 116 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationHAL ChetakNo. 32 Wing
No. 119 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationMi-8No. 32 Wing
No. 143 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationHAL Prachand
No. 6 Squadron IAFJamnagar Air Force StationJaguarIS/IM/IBNo. 33 Wing
No. 28 Squadron IAFJamnagar Air Force StationMig 29No.33 Wing
No. 141 SSS Flight, IAFJamnagar Air Force StationHAL ChetakNo. 33 Wing IAF
No. 18 Squadron IAF[2]Naliya Air Force StationHAL TejasNo. 49 Wing
No. 23 Squadron IAFSuratgarh Air Force StationMig-21No. 35 Wing IAF
No. 104 Helicopter Squadron, IAFSuratgarh Air Force StationMi-35No. 35 Wing
No. 11 Squadron IAFVadodara Air Force StationAirbus C295No. 36 Wing
No. 44 Squadron IAFNagpur Air Force StationIl-76MDNo. 44 Wing
No. 4 Squadron IAFUttarlai Air Force StationSu-30 MKINo. 5 FBSU

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief

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List of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
RankNameFromTo
Air MarshalJagdish Raj Bhasin23 July 1980[3]30 June 1983
Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole1 July 1983[3]31 October 1984
Subramaniam Raghavendran1 November 1984[3]6 January 1986
Prem Pal Singh8 January 1986[3]28 February 1987
Surendra Kumar Mehra1 March 1987[3]31 July 1988
Partha Kumar Dey1 August 1988[3]31 March 1992
Brijesh Dhar Jayal1 April 1992[3]30 September 1993
Satish Kumar Sareen6 October 1993[3]3 June 1994
Kodendera Cariappa Cariappa6 June 1994[3]31 January 1996
Sharadkumar Ramakrishna Deshpande1 February 1996[3]30 November 1997
Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy1 December 1997[3]31 October 1999
Vinod Kumar Bhatia1 November 1997[3]31 July 2001
Michael McMahon1 August 2001[3]31 January 2003
Shashindra Pal Tyagi1 February 2003[3]14 November 2003
Adi Rustomji Ghandhi17 November 2003[3]31 June 2004
Satish Kumar Jain12 July 2004[3]28 February 2006
Pramod Kumar Mehra1 March 2006[3]30 April 2007
Kanwar Dalinderjit Singh1 May 2007[3]30 September 2009
Paramjit Singh Bhangu1 October 2009[3]31 December 2010
Anjan Kumar Gogoi1 January 2011[3]28 February 2013
Daljit Singh1 March 2013[3]31 October 2014
Birender Singh Dhanoa1 November 2014[3]31 May 2015
Ravinder Kumar Dhir1 June 2015[3]30 September 2018
Harjit Singh Arora1 October 2018[3]30 September 2019
Surendra Kumar Ghotia1 October 2019[3]30 April 2021
Sandeep Singh1 May 2021[3]30 September 2021
Vikram Singh1 October 2021[3]30 April 2023
Narmdeshwar Tiwari1 May 202330 April 2025
Nagesh Kapoor1 May 2025Incumbent

References

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  1. ^"Armed forces up for major rejig as new Northern Army Commander, IAF Vice Chief appointed". New Indian Express. 1 May 2025.
  2. ^Thomas, Wilson (27 May 2020)."IAF operationalises second LCA squadron, inducts first LCA Tejas in FOC standard".The Hindu.ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved31 May 2020.
  3. ^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaa"South Western Air Command - BRF".Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved15 May 2021.

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