Maintenance Command is a command of the Indian Air Force. It was raised as Maintenance Group at Chakeri in Kanpur in 1950. In 1955, it was designated as Maintenance Command. Its current headquarters is located at Vayusena Nagar in Nagpur (Maharashtra); it handles the repair, overhaul and maintenance of all aircraft, helicopters and other equipment. MC has about nine Base Repair Depots taking care of the overhaul and maintenance of various types of aircraft.

History The Maintenance Command was established on 26 January 1955. Group Captain Harjinder Singh was the first Commanding Officer (CO). Harjinder Singh, a legendary engineering officer with many firsts to his credit was at the helm of the command until his retirement in 1963. The appointment of the CO was upgraded to Air Officer Commanding (AOC) in 1958 when Singh was promoted to Air Commodore. It was further upgraded to Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) when he was promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal. In 1971, the appointment of AOC-in-C was upgraded to the three-star rank of Air Marshal.

Organisation The command has several types of Base Repair Depots (BRD) (for overhaul, maintenance) and Equipment Depots (ED) (storage of spares, equipment, sub-systems). They are categorised by their specialisation and functions. These units are commanded by an officer of rank Air Commodre. +List of Base Repair Depots (BRD)UnitLocationFunctionRef1 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft)KanpurAn-32 overhaul3 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft & Engine)ChandigarhMi-17, Mi-26, Mi-35 overhaul4 Base Repair Depot (Engine)KanpurR 29 engine (MiG-23/27) + M53 engine (Mirage 2000)5 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft)SulurHS 748, Trainer aircraft overhaul7 Base Repair Depot (Systems)TughlakabadMissiles, Radars, etc.8 Base Repair Depot (Systems)Avadi9 Base Repair Depot (Systems)Pune11 Base Repair Depot (Aircraft)OjharMiG-23, MiG-29 overhaul12 Base Repair Depot (Systems)NafdarjungParachute and safety system13 Base Repair Depot (Systems)Palam14 Base Repair Depot (Systems)BorjharRadar maintenance15 Base Repair Depot (Systems)VadsarCommunication equipment16 Base Repair Depot (Systems)PalamParachute and safety system +List of Equipment Depots (ED)UnitLocationFunctionRef23 Equipment DepotAvadi24 Equipment DepotManauriSpare storage of Jaguar, Avro, C-295 and Dornier aircraft; Chetak, Cheetah and Dhruv helicopters and RPA25 Equipment DepotDevlaliSpare storage of MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-27 and Su-30MKI26 Equipment DepotBangaloreRotables of Jaguar, Cheetah, Chetak, Avro, Kiran; line spares of Jaguar and engines27 Equipment DepotTughlakabad28 Equipment DepotAmlaArmament and ammunition29 Equipment DepotKanpurSupplies parts to 1 and 4 BRD41 (Mini) Equipment DepotBidarSpares of MiG-2542 (Mini) Equipment DepotGwaliorProvides support to 40 Wing IAF, Maharajpur AFS43 (Mini) Equipment DepotHakimpet44 (Mini) Equipment DepotDundingal45 (Mini) Equipment DepotAgraSpares support for Ilyushin Il-76 and Ilyushin Il-78MKI based in Agra AFS.49 (Mini) Equipment DepotN/A There are other units which are based under Maintenance Command

Air Force Liaison Establishments (functions as an interface between IAF and HAL) 31 Movement Control Unit (MCU) at Palam AFS [previously Passenger and Freight (P&F) Forwarding Section] 32 Movement Control Unit (MCU) at Terminal 1 Mumbai Airport [previously Air Freight & Passenger (Mov) Unit] 33 Movement Control Unit (MCU) at Guwahati Airport

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief +List of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Rank Name From ToGroup CaptainHarjinder Singh Air commodore Air Vice Marshal Om Prakash Mehra Hirendra Nath Chatterjee Hari Chand Dewan Air Marshal Gurbachan Singh Anand Ramdas Pandit Idris Hasan Latif Devaiah Subia Jafar Zaheer Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra Satish Chandra Lal Madan Lal Sethi Kuldip Singh Bhatia Sibaprasad Chakrabarti Indrakanty Gopala Krishna Rajamani Ramamurthy Ramesh Chandra Bajpai Ghanshyam Gururani Shanti Swaroop Gupta Dinesh Chandra Nigam Vijay Adhyutrao Patkar Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi Jayant Satchidanand Apte Gautam Nayyar Pramod Vasant Athawale Jagdish Chandra Packiriswamy Kanakaraj Jagjeet Singh Pankaj Aneja Hemant Sharma Raj Karan Singh Shera Shashiker Choudhary Vibhas Pande Vijay Kumar Garg Yalla UmeshIncumbent

See also Training Command (India)

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