Indian Air Force News | Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit appointed new Chief of Indian Air Force

Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit has been appointed the next Chief of the Air Staff and will become the 29th Chief of the Indian Air Force. He will succeed Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, who retires on October 31. Commissioned into the IAF's fighter stream in December 1986, Dixit has four decades of operational and command experience, with over 3,500 hours of flying. An Experimental Test Pilot and Flying Instructor, he has commanded a Mirage 2000 squadron, a frontline fighter base and a premier fighter training base.