Air Marshal V R Chaudhari appointed as next Chief of Air Staff

Indian Airforce founded: 8 October 1932

Indian Airforce Headquarters: New Delhi

The current Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria is set to retire on September 30

Operation Meghdoot, the Air Force’s support to capture the Siachen glacier in the 1980s, and Operation Safed Sagar (the support provided by the IAF during the Kargil conflict in 1999).