Hyderabad, Dec. 1 -- Air Marshal Samir Jayasinha Pendse has taken charge as the Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) at the Headquarters Training Command, Indian Air Force.
He assumed the appointment on Monday.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pendse was commissioned into the Flying (Pilot) branch on December 16, 1989, and has since logged over 5,100 accident-free flying hours as a helicopter pilot across his 36-year career.
He has held several key operational and staff appointments, including command of an Advanced Headquarters, two Indian Air Force bases and a frontline helicopter unit. He also served in a United Nations Mission in Sudan and is a graduate of the National Defence College (NDC), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Before taking ov...