| Unit Name: | Air Training Command |
| Country: | India |
| Branch: | Indian Air Force |
| Type: | Operational Air Command |
| Role: | Flying and ground training. |
| Garrison: | Bangalore, Karnataka |
| Garrison Label: | Headquarters |
| Motto: | Sanskrit: [[Prayer in Hinduism#Mantras|Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya]]|script=Latn "From darkness, lead us unto Light" |
| Commander1: | Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, AVSM, VM |
| Commander1 Label: | Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief |
| Start Date: | 22 July 1949 |
Training Command is the Indian Air Force's command responsible for flying and ground training.
In the 1930s, the approaching threat and later advent of World War II and the leaning of Japan towards the Axis powers, the latter was considered as a potential enemy. Therefore, need was felt to make IAF a self-supporting force for the South Eastern Theatre of war. This led to the rapid expansion of the IAF. A target was fixed of 10 IAF Squadrons. With this expansion, the requirement of pilots and technical personnel increased. For the training of technical personnel, a technical training school was set up at Ambala in 1940.
In a 1949 reorganisation of the Indian Air Force, while frontline units were put under the Operations Command, all the training institutions were placed under the jurisdiction of the Training Command.[1]
Among Training Command's units is the Navigation Training School at Begumpet Air Force Station, Hyderabad. It flies the BAe HS. 748,[2] the Basic Flying Training School and the Air Force Administrative College. The Hawk Operational Training Squadron and Weapon System Operators' School are located at Bidar Air Force Station which flows the Hawk Mk 132 trainer aircraft.
| +List of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief | Rank | Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air commodore | Ravinder Hari Darshan Singh | [3] | ||
| Surendra Nath Goyal | ||||
| Pratap Chandra Lal | ||||
| Kanwar Jaswant Singh | ||||
| Ranjan Dutt | ||||
| Air Vice Marshal | ||||
| Surendra Nath Goyal | ||||
| Teja Singh Virk | ||||
| Victor Srihari | ||||
| Anand Ramdas Pandit | ||||
| Gian Dev Sharma | ||||
| George Kanishtkumar John | ||||
| Air Marshal | Maurice Barker | |||
| Randhir Singh | ||||
| Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis | ||||
| George Kanishtkumar John | ||||
| Balwant Wickram Chauhan | ||||
| Erasseri Pathayapurayil Radhakrishnan Nair | ||||
| Vir Narain | ||||
| Jagdish Kumar Seth | ||||
| Rajendra Kumar Dhawan | ||||
| Verinder Puri | ||||
| Krishna Bihari Singh | ||||
| Jagbir Singh Rai | ||||
| Teshter Jall Master | ||||
| Bijoy Krishna Pandey | ||||
| Subhash Bhojwani | ||||
| Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale | ||||
| Gurnam Singh Choudhary | ||||
| Venkataraman Ramamurthy Iyer | ||||
| Dhiraj Kukreja | ||||
| Rajinder Singh | ||||
| Paramjit Singh Gill | ||||
| Ramesh Rai | ||||
| Sridharan Panicker Radha Krishnan Nair | ||||
| Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria | ||||
| Surendra Kumar Ghotia | ||||
| Arvindra Singh Butola | ||||
| Rajiv Dayal Mathur | [4] | |||
| Manavendra Singh | ||||
| Radhakrishnan Radhish | [5] | |||
| Nagesh Kapoor | Incumbent |