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Basic Flying Training School Date Raised : 1987-10-20 Basic Flying Training School (BFTS) is a premier flying training establishment of Indian Air Force located at Allahabad. It was established on 16 December 1987 to impart ab–initio training to pilots on HPT-32 aircraft. On July 5, 1999 the school changed its role from training Flight Cadets of Indian Air Force to training officers of the Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard. The school was re-equipped with Chetak helicopters on December 26, 25 for imparting ab-initio flying training to Indian Army officers on helicopters.
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 20 Oct 87 to 07 Jul 90 | Group Captain Aditya Vikram Pethia | 8384 F(P) | CO | Bamrauli |  |
| 08 Jul 90 to | Group Captain Prabhat Chandra Prasad | 8444 F(P) | CO | Bamrauli |  |
| Unknown to | Wing Commander Guriqbal Singh Nijjar | 12020 F(P) | CO | Bamrauli |  |
| 08 Jan 96 to 11 Apr 99 | Group Captain Sapan Kumar Karmaker | 13379 F(P) | CO | Bamrauli |  |
| 12 Apr 99 to 01 Jan 02 | Group Captain Gurdip Singh Kochar | 13149 F(P) | CO | Bamrauli |  |
| 27 Sep 04 to 25 Dec 05 | Wing Commander Seethepalli Shrinivas | 18787 F(P) | CO | Bamrauli |  |
| 26 Oct 09 to 16 Oct 11 | Wing Commander Rakesh Kumar Singh | 21258 F(P) | CO | Bamrauli | |
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