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:
SquadronBaseEquipmentNotesNo. 20 Squadron IAFLohegaon Air Force StationSu-30MKINo. 2 WingNo. 30 Squadron IAFLohegaon Air Force StationSu-30MKINo. 2 WingNo. 15 Squadron IAFBhuj Air Force StationSu-30 MKINo. 27 WingNo. 31 Squadron IAFJodhpur Air Force StationSu-30 MKINo.32 WingNo. 107 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationMi-8No. 32 WingNo. 116 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationHAL ChetakNo. 32 WingNo. 119 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationMi-8No. 32 WingNo. 143 Helicopter Unit, IAFJodhpur Air Force StationHAL PrachandNo. 6 Squadron IAFJamnagar Air Force StationJaguarIS/IM/IBNo. 33 WingNo. 28 Squadron IAFJamnagar Air Force StationMig 29No.33 WingNo. 141 SSS Flight, IAFJamnagar Air Force StationHAL ChetakNo. 33 Wing IAFNo. 18 Squadron IAFNaliya Air Force StationHAL TejasNo. 49 WingNo. 23 Squadron IAFSuratgarh Air Force StationMig-21No. 35 Wing IAFNo. 104 Helicopter Squadron, IAFSuratgarh Air Force StationMi-35No. 35 WingNo. 11 Squadron IAFVadodara Air Force StationAirbus C295No. 36 WingNo. 44 Squadron IAFNagpur Air Force StationIl-76MDNo. 44 WingNo. 4 Squadron IAFUttarlai Air Force StationSu-30 MKINo. 5 FBSU
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief South Western Air Command S.No Rank Name Assumed office Left office References1 Air Marshal Jagdish Raj Bhasin 2 Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole 3 Subramaniam Raghavendran 4 Prem Pal Singh 5 Surendra Kumar Mehra 6 Partha Kumar Dey 7 Brijesh Dhar Jayal 8 Satish Kumar Sareen 9 Kodendera Cariappa Cariappa 10 Sharadkumar Ramakrishna Deshpande 11 Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy 12 Vinod Kumar Bhatia 13 Michael McMahon 14 Shashindra Pal Tyagi 15 Adi Rustomji Ghandhi 16 Satish Kumar Jain 17 Pramod Kumar Mehra 18 Kanwar Dalinderjit Singh 19 Paramjit Singh Bhangu 20 Anjan Kumar Gogoi 21 Daljit Singh 22 Birender Singh Dhanoa 23 Ravinder Kumar Dhir 24 Harjit Singh Arora 25 Surendra Kumar Ghotia 26 Sandeep Singh 27 Vikram Singh 28 Narmdeshwar Tiwari 29 Nagesh Kapoor 30 Tejinder Singh 31 P. V. Shivanand Incumbent
References
External links Bharat-Rakshak.com, IAF COMMAND STRUCTURE