Maintenance Command

Maintenance Command
Emblem of the Maintenance Command
Founded26 January 1955
CountryIndia
BranchIndian Air Force
TypeSupport
HeadquartersNagpur, Maharashtra
Motto(s)Sarvada Gagenecharet
(Sanskrit: Always Flying in the Sky)
Commanders
Air Officer Commanding-in-ChiefAir Marshal Vijay Kumar Garg
Air Marshal Hemant Sharma, AVSM, VSM, handing over the aircraft HPT-32 to Narayan Ramdas Iyer at Raman Science Centre on 15 December 2017

Maintenance Command is a command of the Indian Air Force. It was raised as Maintenance Group at Chakeri in Kanpur in 1950. In 1955, it was designated as Maintenance Command. Its current headquarters is located at Vayusena Nagar in Nagpur (Maharashtra); it handles the repair, overhaul and maintenance of all aircraft, helicopters and other equipment. MC has about nine Base Repair Depots taking care of the overhaul and maintenance of various types of aircraft.