Air Marshal Tejinder Singh takes over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Training Command

Prior to his present appointment, he was the Deputy Chief of Air Staff at Air HQ (VB); he is a Category ‘A’ qualified flying instructor with over 4,500 hours of flying experience

Hyderabad: Air Marshal Tejinder Singh has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C), Training Command here on Thursday. After assumption of his new post, the Air Marshal paid homage to the brave hearts by laying a wreath at the Training Command War Memorial.

Prior to his present appointment, he was the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff at Air HQ (VB). An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Air Marshal Tejinder was commissioned in the fighter stream of the IAF on June 13, 1987. He is a Category ‘A’ qualified flying instructor with over 4,500 hours of flying experience, an alumnus of Defence Service Staff College and National Defence College.

Air Marshal Tejinder commanded a fighter squadron, a radar station, a premier fighter base and was Air Officer Commanding, Jammu and Kashmir, a press release said.

His varied staff appointments include Operational Staff at a Command HQ, Air Commodore (Personnel Officers-1) at Air HQ, Deputy Assistant Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, Financial (Planning) at HQ IDS, Air Commodore (Aerospace Safety), Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operations (Offensive) and ACAS Ops (Strategy) and Senior Air Staff Officer, Eastern Air Command at Shillong, Meghalaya.