On 1 April 1954, who became the first Indian Chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) ?

Question

Who was the first woman pilot to fly solo in the Indian Air Force, when was the flight and what was the type of plane?

Answer 1

Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee was the first Indian Indian Chief of the Indian Air Force. Here is the complete List

List of Air Chief Marshals of India

Air Marshal Sir Thomas Walker Elmhirst KBE CB CBE AFC (15 Aug 1947 - 22 Feb 1950)
Air Marshal Ronald Ivelaw Chapman GCB KBE DFC AFC (22 Feb 1950 - 09 Dec 1951)
Air Marshal Sir Gerald Ernest Gibbs KBE CIE MC & Bar (10 Dec 1951 - 31 March 1954)
Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee OBE (01 April 1954 - 08 Nov 1960)
Air Chief Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC (01 Dec 1960 - 31 July 1964)
Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh Padma Vibhushan DFC (01 Aug 1964 - 15 Jul 1969)
Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal Padam Vibhushan Padam Bhushan DFC (16 July 1969 - 15 Jan 1973)
Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra PVSM (16 Jan 1973 - 31 Jan 1976)
Air Chief Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar PVSM MVC (01 Feb 1976 - 31 Aug 1978)
Air Chief Marshal Idris Hassan Latif PVSM (01 Sep 1978 - 31 Aug 1981)
Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM AVSM VM (01 Sep 1981 - 04 Sep 1984)
Air Chief Marshal Lakshman Madhav Katre PVSM AVSM and bar (04 Sep 1984 - 01 July1985)
Air Chief Marshal Denis Anthony La Fontaine PVSM AVSM VM (03 July 1985 - 31 July 1988)
Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM AVSM VM (01 Aug 1988 - 31 Jul 1991)
Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM AVSM VM (31 July 1991 - 31 July 1993)
Air Chief Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM MVC (01 Aug 1993 - 31 Dec 1995)
Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM AVSM VM (31 Dec 1995 - 31 Dec 1998)
Air Chief Marshal AY Tipnis PVSM AVSM VM (31 Dec 1998 - 31 Dec 2001)
Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy PVSM AVSM VM & Bar (31 Dec 2001- 31 Dec 2004)
Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi PVSM AVSM VM (31 Dec 2004 - 31 Mar 2007)
Air Chief Marshal F H Major PVSM AVSM SC VM (31 Mar 2007 - 31 May 2009)
Air Chief Marshal P V Naik PVSM VSM (31 May 2009 - 31 Jul 2011)
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne PVSM AVSM VM ADC (01 Aug 2011 - 31 Dec 2013)
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha PVSM AVSM VM ADC (31 Dec 2013 - current)

Answer 2

Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee

Answer 3

Subroto Mukerjee was the first Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (IAF). Subroto assisted the Air Chiefs in reorganising the IAF. He went to the Imperial Defence College in England for further training in 1952. On returning to India in 1954, Mukerjee took over as the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force on 1 April 1954, in the rank of Air Marshal. When the Change in Designation Act, 1955, was passed, the title of "Commander-in-Chief" was replaced by Chief of the Air Staff, IAF.

Thus Mukerjee became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief as well as Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force.