Air Marshal NJS Dhillon

Chandigarh: Air Marshal NJS Dhillon has been appointed as Senior Air Staff Officer of Western Air Command. Prior to this, he was the Air Defence Commander at Southern Air Command. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, he was commissioned as a fighter pilot in December 1981 and has over 3,700 hours of accident-free flying to his credit.In 1991, he topped the Fighter Strike Leader Course at the IAF’s Tactics and Air Combat Defence Establishment and later served there as the Head of Training. He has commanded a MiG-21 squadron and an operational fighter base. — TNS