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6 Course

Start Date : 06 Jan 41 End Date : 06 Jan 41

6 Pilot Course - This was the First course to join the Initial Training School at Walton, in Lahore for service and ground training on 6 Jan 1941 and were commissioned as Acting Pilot Officers on that date. This laste about 10 weeks. From here the course went to EFTS Secunderabad, as the first course in the newly setup school in first week of March 1941 flying the Tiger Moth. After EFTS, the course joined SFTS Ambala (Flying Audax).

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1653 GD(P)
Air Marshal
Mohammed Asghar Khan

GD(P)
Pilot Officer
Pathil Kuriyan Kuriyan

1654 GD(P)
Air Vice Marshal
Mohammad Akhtar

1655 GD(P)
Squadron Leader
Mohan Dev Suri
Died in Service on 28 Aug 47

1656 GD(P) (Later F(P))
Air Commodore
Padam Singh Gill



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GD(P)
Pilot Officer
Syed Fayyaz Hussain



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GD(P)
Pilot Officer
Gyan Dev Datta

1657 GD(P)
Group Captain
Mohammad Mukhtar Ahmad Cheema



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GD(P)
Pilot Officer
Rafiq Hussain Bokhari

1658 GD(P)
Air Marshal
Malik Nur Khan



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1659 GD(P)
Squadron Leader
Francis Peter Amber



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GD(P)
Pilot Officer
Sirnagat Singh Chowdury



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GD(P)
Pilot Officer
Balraj Malik Kakar

1664 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Kartar Singh Saund
Died in Service on 05 May 43


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6th Course at ITW Lahore
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