Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit has been appointed the new Chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF), replacing Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. He has a service career of nearly four decades. He was commissioned into the fighter stream of the IAF on December 6, 1986.
According to ANI, Air Marshal Dixit has flown a wide range of aircraft. These include the Mirage-2000, variants of the MiG, HPT-32, An-32, Avro, Kiran, Jaguar, IL-78, Hawk and Tejas.