Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh to take over as subsequent IAF chief | India Information

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 government 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 necessary 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 undertaking administration group at Moscow and was additionally undertaking director (flight check) of the indigenous Tejas gentle fight plane.