Dilbagh Singh

Air Chief Marshal
Dilbagh Singh
PVSM, AVSM, VM
Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM
12th Indian Ambassador to Brazil
	In office; August 1985 – August 1987
Appointed by	President of India (then, Zail Singh)
Preceded by	S.S. Nath
Succeeded by	A.R. Kakodar
25th Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee
	In office; 31 July 1983 – 3 September 1984
President	Zail Singh
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
Preceded by	K. V. Krishna Rao
Succeeded by	Oscar Stanley Dawson
11th Chief of the Air Staff (India)
	In office; 1 September 1981 – 3 September 1984
President	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy ; Zail Singh
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
Preceded by	Idris Hasan Latif
Succeeded by	Lakshman Madhav Katre
Personal details
Born	10 March 1926; Rahon, Jalandhar district, Punjab
Died	9 February 2001 (aged 74); Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Military service
Allegiance	British India (1945–1947); India (from 1947)
Branch/service	Royal Indian Air Force (1945–1947); Indian Air Force (1947–1984)
Years of service	1945-1984
Rank	Air Chief Marshal
Unit	No. 1 Squadron
Commands	Eastern Air Command; Ambala Air Force Station; 28 Squadron
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965; Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; Operation Lal Dora
Award(s)	Param Vishisht Seva Medal; Ati Vishisht Seva Medal; Vayu Sena Medal;

Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VM (10 March 1926 – 9 February 2001) was the head of the Indian Air Force from 1981 to 1984,^[2] as Chief of the Air Staff. He was the second Sikh to hold that position.^{[citation needed]}

Dilbagh Singh was commissioned as a pilot in 1944.^[3] His operational flying career spanned the Spitfire to introducing the MiG-21 into service in India. He had earlier made the first official "supersonic bang" over India in New Delhi when the Mystere IV-A was showcased in a public demonstration.

He was India's ambassador to Brazil from 1985 to 1987. He was a student of pandit Buta Ram of Rahon. His visit to Rahon to visit his teacher when he was Air Marshal is still remembered. He inspired scores of youngsters from Rahon and Nawanshahar region to join defense forces

References

^ "Air Marshal Kumaria Visits Air Force Station Chandigarh To Felicitate its 50 Golden Years". 1 March 2011.
^ "Dilbagh Singh". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "rediff.com: Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh no more". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 28 May 2020.

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Preceded by Idris Latif	Chief of the Air Staff (India) 1981–1984	Succeeded by Lakshman Katre

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[1] "Air Marshal Kumaria Visits Air Force Station Chandigarh To Felicitate its 50 Golden Years". 1 March 2011.

[2] "Dilbagh Singh". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2018.

[3] "rediff.com: Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh no more". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 28 May 2020.

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v t e Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces
Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (1947–2019)	Sir Rob Lockhart Sir Thomas Elmhirst Sir Edward Parry K. M. Cariappa Sir Charles Pizey Subroto Mukerjee Kodandera Subayya Thimayya Ram Dass Katari Aspy Engineer Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Arjan Singh Adhar Kumar Chatterji Sam Manekshaw Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Om Prakash Mehra Sourendra Nath Kohli Tapishwar Narain Raina Hrushikesh Moolgavkar Jal Cursetji Om Prakash Malhotra Idris Hasan Latif Ronald Lynsdale Pereira K. V. Krishna Rao Dilbagh Singh Oscar Stanley Dawson Arun Shridhar Vaidya Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani Denis La Fontaine Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni Surinder Mehra Sunith Francis Rodrigues Laxminarayan Ramdas Bipin Chandra Joshi S. K. Kaul Vijai Singh Shekhawat Shankar Roychowdhury Satish Sareen Ved Prakash Malik Sushil Kumar Sundararajan Padmanabhan Madhvendra Singh Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy Nirmal Chander Vij Arun Prakash Shashindra Pal Tyagi Joginder Jaswant Singh Sureesh Mehta Deepak Kapoor Pradeep Vasant Naik Nirmal Kumar Verma Norman Anil Kumar Browne Bikram Singh Arup Raha Sunil Lanba Birender Singh Dhanoa Bipin Rawat
Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2020–2021)	Bipin Rawat
Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2021–2022)	M. M. Naravane (acting)
Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2022–)	Anil Chauhan
(**Seconded from the British Armed Forces)

v t e Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force
Air Marshal Commanding, Royal Indian Air Force (1947–1948)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst**
Chief of the Air Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Air Force (1948–1950)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst**
Chief of the Air Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force (1950–1955)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman Gerald Gibbs** Subroto Mukerjee
Chief of the Air Staff (1955–present)	Subroto Mukerjee Aspy Engineer Arjan Singh Pratap Chandra Lal Om Prakash Mehra Hrushikesh Moolgavkar Idris Hasan Latif Dilbagh Singh Lakshman Madhav Katre Denis La Fontaine Surinder Mehra Nirmal Chandra Suri Swaroop Kaul Satish Kumar Sareen Anil Tipnis Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy Shashindra Pal Tyagi Fali Homi Major Pradeep Vasant Naik Norman Anil Kumar Browne Arup Raha Birender Singh Dhanoa Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria Vivek Ram Chaudhari (incumbent)
(**Seconded from the Royal Air Force)

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States