Pilots Courses

Course Number Year Locations From the Collection of 4th Course 1941 5th Course AMB 7 Pilots…

Air Force Test Pilots School

ASTE’s fleet in December 1997 includes: 2 An-32s, HS748 ASWAC, MiG-21US, MiG-21Bis, Jaguar IS, Jaguar IM,…

Pilot Officer Paljor Namgyal: The Crown Prince of Sikkim

by Tenzin C. Tashi, Sr Researcher, English Academic Section, NIT. On a small hillock within the…

A Saga Forged in War – History of 7 Squadron. Dec. 1942 to June 1945

  This article is dedicated to the memory of my illustrious father late GP Capt. KL…

My IAF Training Days 1941

This is a previously unpublished hand-written account by Air Marshal Anand Ramdas Pandit , PVSM AVSM…

A Flying Start – Training To Be A Pilot – Capt M Balan

This series of articles and photo albums chronicles the experiences of Muthukumarasami Balan, who joined the…

Exceptional Courage : Flt Lt A W Barrett

Among the gallantry awards given to IAF personnel for the 1947-48 Operations, only one out of…

The National Cadet Corps and the IAF

In this research piece by Anchit Gupta , the author untangles the history of the Indian…

Battle of Chhamb 71 : Through the 6/5 Lenses of an FAC

This is the first person account of a young Pilot Officer caught in the thick of…

Jodhpur and the 1965 War

Jodhpur was the most bombed Indian City of the Indo-Pak 1965 war. More than two hundred…