Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit appointed as 29th Chief of Air Staff

New Delhi, October 06
The Government has appointed Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff, in the rank of Air Chief Marshal, with effect from the afternoon of 31st of this month. He will succeed Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh.

Air Marshal Dixit has held key operational and strategic appointments, including CISC, HQ IDS and AOC-in-C, Central Air Command.

The Ministry of Defence informed that he is an experimental Test Pilot and Qualified Flying Instructor with over three thousand five hundred hours of flying experience.