New Chief Of Air Staff With More Than 5,000 Hrs Of Flying Experience | Who Is Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh

Air Chief Marsha🐽l Amar Preet Singh on Monday assumed charge as ℱnew chief of the Indian Air Force, succeeding incumbent Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari.

Air Chief Marಌshal Singh, whꦿo is an accomplished fighter pilot with more than 5,000 hours of flying experience, was serving as Vice Chief in his previous assignment.

Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari retired from serviಌce after helming the force for three years.

Responsibility Of Chief Of Air Staff

Asꦍ the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Singh's main goals are to acquire new fighter planes and continue modernizing the air force to address ongoing national security challenges, including the ongoing border dispute with China in eastern Ladakh.

Anotꦕher important task for him would be to focus on the theaterisation plan as the government looks at rolling out the ambitꦇious reform initiative.

Who Is Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh?

Education & Early Life

Born on October 27, 1964, Air Chief Marshal Singh was commissioned into the fighter pilot stream of💝 the Indian Air Force in December 1984.

An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and Nat𒈔ional Defence College.

Achievements

The air officer is a qualified flying instructor and an experimental test pilot wi🅷th more than 5,000 hours of flying experience on a variety of fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

Air Chief Marshal Si🌞ngh has commanded an operational fighter squadron and a frontline air base.

As💜 a test pꦇilot, he led the MiG-29 upgrade project management team at Moscow.

He was also the project director (flight test) at National Flight Test Centre and was tasked with flight testing of the L🌊ight Combat Aircraft, Tejas.

Air Chief Marshal Singh has taken charge 🌌of theꦗ IAF amid concerns over delays in supply of LCA Tejas-Mark 1A variant to the force by state-run aerospace giant Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).

The officer has held i✅mportant staff appointments of Air Defence Commander at South Western Air Command and Senior Air Staff Of𝔉ficer at Eastern Air Command.

Prior to assuming the charge of Vice Chief of the Air Staff in February l🔜ast year, he was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Central Air Command.

The Air Chief Marshal is a recipient of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal and Ati Vishisht Seva M꧅edal. He is known as a fitn♉ess enthusiast who also plays squash.

In his long and distinguished service spanning nearly 40 years, he has served in a variety of command, staff, instru🅘ctional and foreign appointments.