AWestland Wapiti, one of the first aircraft of the Indian Air Force.
On 8 October 1932, the Indian Air Force was established in British India as an auxiliary air force of Royal Air Force,[5][6][7] and adopted the Royal Air Force uniforms, badges, brevets and insignia.[8][9] In 1948, first airstrip was built in Haryana when Ambala Air Force Station was established following the independence of India. After the independence of India in 1947, an air force logistics base was established at Faridabad.
This facility is headed by an Indian Air Force OfficerofGroup Captain rank from the Air Force Logisticswing. It has a Guard DogTraining Unit and the 56th Air Storage Park.[2] The operations at Commands are supported by the technical and logistics wing at the Command and units level, and logistics wing is responsible for ensuring the supply and storage of spares and consumables.[10] Air force logistics is challenging task due to the geographical diversity of weapon system sites and technological diversity of weapon systems and spares, high costs, and high lead times of military aviation equipments.[10]
In addition to this logistics base at Dauba, IAF also has two firing range (AFRU - Air Force Range Unit), range 1 and range 2, at Tilpat within Faridabad.[10]
The 100 metres land around the air force stations and 900 meters around the ammunition depot is a protected zone where construction is not permitted as per the law. People mostly of lower middle class bought land near this station and constructed houses, neither the Air Force Station nor the local authorities objected earlier. It came into picture after PIL filed in High Court,more than 10000 houses and around 1L people living here, but govt data claims only 250 structures.[3] In 2010, a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court to have these illegal structures removed. The local Municipal Corporation of Faridabad stopped providing proper roads and drainage facilities after this PIL, but the Court never gave order to stop providing basic amenities to the houses constructed in this area.[11][12]
^"CLAUSE 4.—(Relations between Royal Air Force and Indian Air Force, and attachment of personnel.)". HC Deb 3 April 1933 vol 276 cc1473-501. 3 April 1933. Retrieved 8 April 2009. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^"History of the IAF". Official Website. Webmaster IAF – Air Headquarters. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
^Bedi, Sanjeev (Summer 2008). "Strategic Role of Air Power"(PDF). Air Power Journal. 3 (2). Center for Air Power Studies: 27–45. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2019-07-23. Retrieved 8 April 2009.
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