NEW DELHI: Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as the following chief of the IAF from Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari, who retires on Sept 30, the govt. introduced on Saturday.
The federal government has passed by the seniority precept in appointing Air Marshal Singh, a fighter pilot who was commissioned in Dec 1984, as the following IAF chief.
Air Marshal Singh held essential command and workers appointments earlier than he was appointed the vice-chief in Feb final yr.Earlier than that he was the air officer commanding-in-chief of the Central Air Command at Prayagraj.
He’s a certified flying teacher and an experimental check pilot, with over 5,000 hours of flying on quite a lot of plane and helicopters. Throughout his profession, he has commanded an operational fighter squadron and a frontline air base. As a check pilot, he led the MiG-29 fighter improve challenge administration workforce at Moscow and was additionally challenge director (flight check) of the indigenous Tejas mild fight plane.
The federal government has passed by the seniority precept in appointing Air Marshal Singh, a fighter pilot who was commissioned in Dec 1984, as the following IAF chief.
Air Marshal Singh held essential command and workers appointments earlier than he was appointed the vice-chief in Feb final yr.Earlier than that he was the air officer commanding-in-chief of the Central Air Command at Prayagraj.
He’s a certified flying teacher and an experimental check pilot, with over 5,000 hours of flying on quite a lot of plane and helicopters. Throughout his profession, he has commanded an operational fighter squadron and a frontline air base. As a check pilot, he led the MiG-29 fighter improve challenge administration workforce at Moscow and was additionally challenge director (flight check) of the indigenous Tejas mild fight plane.
