Anil Yashwant Tipnis

Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC
Born	September 15, 1940
Allegiance	India
Service/branch	Indian Air Force
Years of service	December 31, 1961 – 2001
Rank	Air Chief Marshal
Unit	No. 7 Squadron IAF
Commands held	Western Air Command Central Air Command Indian Air Force
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Kargil War

Anil Tipnis PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC (born 15 September 1940) served as Air Chief Marshal of the Indian Air Force from 31 December 1998 to 31 December 2001. He commanded the Air Force to distinction during the Kargil War, when the force flew air superiority and close air support at heights of over 18,000 feet^[1]

References

Chief of the Air Staff (India)
Commander, Indian Group (1919–1920)	Tom Webb-Bowen
Air Officer Commanding RAF, India (1920–1938)	Tom Webb-Bowen Philip Game Sir Edward Leonard Ellington Sir Geoffrey Salmond Sir John Miles Steel Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté
Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Air Forces in India (1938–1947)	Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins Sir Patrick Playfair Sir Richard Peirse Sir Guy Garrod Meredith Thomas Sir Roderick Carr Sir Hugh Walmsley
Air Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Air Force (1947–1948)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst**
Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Air Force (1948–1950)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst**
Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force (1950–1955)	Sir Thomas Elmhirst** Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman** Gerald Gibbs** Subroto Mukerjee
Chief of the Air Staff (1955–present)	Subroto Mukerjee Aspy Engineer Arjan Singh Pratap Chandra Lal Om Prakash Mehra Hrushikesh Moolgavkar Idris Latif Dilbagh Singh Lakshman Mohan Katre Denis La Fontaine Surinder Mehra Nirmal Chandra Suri Swaroop Kaul Satish Kumar Sareen Anil Tipnis Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy Shashindra Pal Tyagi Fali Homi Major Pradeep Vasant Naik Norman Anil Kumar Browne Arup Raha
(**Seconded from the Royal Air Force)