Celebrating Women Power: The First Women Officers Of IAF
The total strength of women officers serving the IAF is 1,875, of which only ten women officers are fighter pilots.
The total strength of women officers serving the IAF is 1,875, of which only ten women officers are fighter pilots.
Women fighter pilots are inducted and deployed in IAF as per strategic needs and operational requirements said India’s defence minister
Women fighter pilots are inducted and deployed in IAF as per strategic needs and operational requirements within the laid down policy, which is reviewed from time to time, said MOS for Defence, Sripad Yesso Naik.
Flt Lt Mohana Singh became the first woman fighter pilot to qualify for undertaking missions by Hawk advanced Jet Aircraft during the daytime.
Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi has scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman fighter pilot to fly solo. Now, she has created another record by becoming the first woman pilot of the Indian Air Force who completed a solo flight on a MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft. She achieved this feat over the Jamnagar base in […]
Flying high on success, Officer Avani Chaturvedi on Monday scripted history yet again. Avani is now the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo, reported PTI. She is one of India’s first women fighter pilots who broke through glass ceiling along with Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh on June 18th, 2016. After the Defence Ministry’s ground-breaking decision of […]