Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as the next chief of the IAF from Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari, who retires on Sept 30, the govt announced on Saturday (20 September 2024).
The government has gone by the seniority principle in appointing Air Marshal Singh, a fighter pilot who was commissioned in Dec 1984, as the next IAF chief.
Air Marshal Singh held important command and staff appointments before he was appointed the vice-chief in Feb last year.

He is a qualified flying instructor and an experimental pilot, with over 5,000 hours of flying on a variety of aircraft and helicopters.