The Authorities appointed Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh, PVSM, AVSM, presently serving as Vice Chief of the Air Workers, as the subsequent Chief of the Air Workers, within the rank of Air Chief Marshal, with impact from the afternoon of September 30, 2024. The current Chief of the Air Workers Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC demits workplace on September 30, 2024, as per a press launch from the Ministry of Defence.
Born on October 27, 1964, Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh was commissioned into the fighter pilot stream of the Indian Air Drive in December 1984.
Throughout his lengthy and distinguished service spanning practically 40 years, he has served in quite a lot of Command, Workers, Tutorial and Overseas appointments.
An alumnus of the Nationwide Defence Academy, Defence Providers Workers Faculty and Nationwide Defence Faculty, the Air Officer is a Certified Flying Teacher and an Experimental Check Pilot with greater than 5,000 hours of flying expertise on quite a lot of fastened and rotary-wing plane.
Throughout his profession, the officer has commanded an operational fighter squadron and a frontline air base. As a check pilot, he led the MiG-29 Improve Venture Administration Group in Moscow, Russia.
He was additionally the Venture Director (Flight Check) on the Nationwide Flight Check Centre and was tasked with flight testing of the Mild Fight Plane, Tejas.
He has held necessary workers appointments of Air Defence Commander at South Western Air Command and Senior Air Workers Officer at Japanese Air Command.
Previous to assuming the cost of Vice Chief of the Air Workers, he was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Central Air Command.