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Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit took over as the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff today.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, he was commissioned in the fighter stream on 6 December 1986. He is a graduate of the Staff Course, Bangladesh and the National Defence College, New Delhi.
The Air Marshal is a qualified flying instructor as well as an experimental test pilot, with over 3300 hours of flying experience on fighter, trainer and transport aircraft. He participated in Operation Safed Sagar and Rakshak.
