Flight Lt. Mohana Singh becomes the first woman
fighter pilot to fly by day on a Hawk advanced jet aircraft.
She landed after a grueling 4-aircraft combat sortie at Kalaikunda
Air Force station in West Bengal.
The other women officers – Bhawana Kanth and
Avani Chaturvedi – joined the fighter stream in June 2016.
Last week, Flight Lt. Bhawana Kanth became the
first daytime woman fighter pilot to fly a MiG-21 Bison.
She involved flying both air-to-air combat and
air-to-ground missions.
She has undertaken many practice missions which
involved firing of rockets, guns and dropping high caliber bombs and has also
participated in various Air Force level flying exercises.
She has a total of over 500 hours of
incident-free flying of which 380 hours are on the Hawk Mk 132 jet.
Mohana
Singh
Mohana Singh Jitarwal is one of the first female
pilots of India.
She was declared as the first combat pilot along
with two of her cohorts, Bhawana
Kanth, and Avani Chaturvedi.
All three women pilots were inducted into the
Indian Air Force fighter squadron in June 2016.
Flight Lieutenant Mohana Singh became the first IAF woman pilot to fly Hawk jets
