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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1947 : 13 1948 : 20 1949 : 9 1950 : 3 1951 : 4 1952 : 40 1953 : 5 1954 : 8

A total of 102 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
03 Jan 52 Tempest II
CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
03 Jan 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Bhupendra Nath Misra
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
04 Jan 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Harbhajan Singh Dhaliwal
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
08 Jan 52 Tempest II Flt Lt Melville Desmond Rathan
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
08 Jan 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Kottarathil Narayan Pillai Madhava Panicker
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
14 Jan 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Harbhajan Singh Dhaliwal
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
30 Jan 52 Tempest II HA-464 Flt Lt Dilbagh Singh
 Click to View Record 10 Sqn Nosed over vertically - written off
06 Mar 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Bhupendra Nath Misra
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
15 Mar 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Ayappan Sudhakaran
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
24 Apr 52 Tempest II Sqn Ldr John Jasper Bouche
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
30 Apr 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Y Chanda
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
01 May 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Homi Ardeshi Divecha
 CTU Injured. 2 Civilians on ground injured
11 Jun 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Manuel Keshrinath Gaikwad
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
21 Jun 52 Tempest II
Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
24 Jun 52 Tempest II Sqn Ldr Prasanta Kumar Sarkar
 4 Sqn Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
28 Jun 52 Tempest II Plt Offr K S Ghuna
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
07 Jul 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Om Prakash Taneja
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
23 Jul 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Terence Joseph Desa
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
29 Jul 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Dalbir Yadav
 Click to View Record CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
04 Aug 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Amitava Lahiri
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
07 Aug 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Sharwan Kumar Bhandari +
 3 Sqn
19 Aug 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Sunandan Roy
 Click to View Record CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
22 Aug 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Bhupendra Nath Misra
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
29 Aug 52 Tempest II
Injured
30 Aug 52 Tempest II Wg Cdr Ramachandra Balaji Godkhindi
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
02 Sep 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Erakathil Chacko John
 Click to View Record CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
05 Sep 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Homi Ardeshi Divecha +
 2 AFA
19 Sep 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Gurdial Singh
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
06 Oct 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Bhupendra Nath Misra
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
07 Oct 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Kishore Atmaram Deshpande +
 4 Sqn Killed (DFS Data)
15 Oct 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Manuel Keshrinath Gaikwad
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
21 Oct 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Kapil Dev Hoon
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
28 Oct 52 Tempest II Fg Offr Terence Joseph Desa
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
28 Oct 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Prabhakar Jaywant Jakatdar
 Click to View Record CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
28 Oct 52 Tempest II HA-596 Plt Offr Cecil Vivian Parker
 Click to View Record CTU bo after to from hakimpet
01 Nov 52 Tempest II Flt Lt Roopanagunta Vishnu Bhaskar Bhardwaj
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
02 Nov 52 Tempest II Flt Lt K N M Dhawan
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
04 Nov 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Kanwar Jit Singh Malik
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
10 Dec 52 Tempest II Plt Offr Ian Steele Loughran
 Click to View Record CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
31 Oct 53 Tempest II Flt Lt Mirgind Singh Grewal
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
17 Nov 53 Tempest II HA-400 Flt Lt Edwin Noble Millicans
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
24 Nov 53 Tempest II Flt Lt Jafar Zaheer
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
08 Dec 53 Tempest II Plt Offr Reginald Trevor Oliver
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
30 Dec 53 Tempest II Fg Offr Prabhakar Jaywant Jakatdar
 Click to View Record Injured
06 Jan 54 Tempest II Fg Offr Erakathil Chacko John
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
19 Jan 54 Tempest II Sqn Ldr George Henry King
 Click to View Record 10 Sqn Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
02 Feb 54 Tempest II Plt Offr Prem Nath Bali
 CTU Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
18 Feb 54 Tempest II Fg Offr Kanwar Jit Singh Malik
 Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
12 Mar 54 Tempest II Flt Lt Jafar Zaheer
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK
03 Apr 54 Tempest II Fg Offr Erakathil Chacko John
 Click to View Record Possibly Repaired Pilot OK

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