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Group Captain Kapil Bhargava
| Service No & Branch | 3939 F(P) (Orig: GD(P)) | Stream :Fighters |  | |||||||||||
| Date of Birth: 21 Aug 1928 | Commissioned: 14 Oct 1950 | Course: 53 Course | ||||||||||||
| Service End: | Retired on 15 Nov 1976 Voluntary Retirement Died on 17 Dec 2014 (86 Years age) | Nick Name : | ||||||||||||
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| Dates | Rank | Unit | Location | Appointment | Photo |
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| - 01 Dec 1955 | Flt Lt | No.7 Squadron | Halwara | Flight Commander | |
| - 01 Dec 1956 | Flt Lt | Empire Test Pilots School, UK | Farnborough | Test Pilot Course 15th Course | |
| 14 Aug 1957 - | Flt Lt | HAL | Bangalore | Test Pilot | |
| 01 Jan 1970 - 01 Dec 1972 | Gp Capt | Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment | Bangalore | Commandant | |
| 23 Dec 1972 - 05 Jan 1975 | Gp Capt | 32 Wing | Jodhpur | Station Commander | |
| 07 Jan 1976 - 19 May 1976 | Gp Capt | Air Head Quarters | Delhi | Director (Flight Safety) | |
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Awards and Decorations
Number of Awards: 1
| Vayu Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty) | ||||
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| Sqn Ldr | Kapil Bhargava | 3939 GD(P) | Award Date 01 Nov 1961 | Announced 15 Aug 1961 |
| Details : | Squadron Leader Kapil Bhargava, a test pilot of considerable experience, had his training in test flights of the Avro 748 in the United Kingdom and flew over 150 hours on the prototype there. He undertook the first test flight of the Indian built aircraft, fresh from the assembly lines at Kanpur, on 1st November 1961. On its inaugural flight at Palam on 26th November 1961, before a distinguished gathering , he demonstrated the performance and the capabilities of the aircraft. In this task He had shown a high degree of professional skill , knowledge and courage | |||
| Unit : HAL | ||||
| Reference : Gazette of India 3rd February 1962 - No.24 - Pres/62 dated 26th January 1962 | ||||
Articles from Main Site
TACDE by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - Group Captain Suranjan Das by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (Retd) - Air Force Test Pilots School by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (Retd) - Quarter Century of the Jaguar in India by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (Retd) - An Update on the HAL LCA (Tejas) - July 2002 by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (1928-2014) by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - Courage & Devotion to Duty : A Chronicle of IAF’s Honours and Awards (1932-2008) by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar PVSM AVSM (Retd.) - The Tejas Story by Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar (Retd) - India's Reclaimed Bombers: The B-24 Liberator by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - HT-2 - India's First Powered Aircraft by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - Operations at Diu : The One day war by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (Retd) - Test Pilot losses in Marut Flight Testing by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - Obituary: Air Marshal Partha Kumar Dey AVSM PVSM by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - Micky Blake: Officer, Gentleman and Exceptional Pilot by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (Retd) - Air Marshal Prithi Singh (April 8, 1934-October 16, 2012) by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (Retd) - Air Commodore J J Bouche (1921-2013) by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - AVRO 748 In India - More Than Four Decades On by Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava - Pilots Courses by - Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava (1928-2014) by - Hurricane Tales by Gp Capt M P O Blake -
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