Shivangi Singh set to become India’s first woman fighter pilot to fly Rafale

Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh is set to become the first woman fighter pilot of India to fly the Rafale combat aircraft. She hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi and commissioned into the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the year 2017 as part of the second batch of women fighter pilots.

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She is undergoing conversion training to fly the Rafale jet and will soon join the Ambala-based No. 17 squadron, also known as “Golden Arrows.”

The officer, who is one of IAF’s 10 women fighter pilots, joined the air force in 2017. After joining IAF, she has been flying the MiG-21 Bison aircraft.

Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh were the first women to be commissioned as flying officers into the IAF fighter stream after basic training in June 2016.

They broke the glass ceiling of the long-standing combat-exclusion policy for women in the Indian armed forces.