Images - Pakistan Air Force in the Mirror of History.

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Bordeaux, France, October 1998.


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When did they change the flags?

 

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Harvards of the RPAF over the skies of Karachi during a military parade, circa 1948.

At independence the Royal Pakistan Air Force received some 20 aircraft of this type. a brother of Asghar Khan died flying this over Gilgit.

 

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L-100

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L-100-382B-4C Hercules 64144/T/AP-AUT in Pakistan Air Force service was actually leased from Pakistan International Airlines.

Photographed at Luqa Park 4, Malta, on 1 December 1975.

 

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T33

B 57

F 104

Beech King Air 200 (PAKISTAN AIR FORCE)

Cessna 172

Dassault Falcon 20ECM

C130

F 86

F104

T 37

F 16

JF 17

 

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Sherdils T-37 Aerobatic Team With CAS Farooq Feroz Khan And COAS Gen Mirza Asalm Baig, Circa 1991

 

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Asghar Khan and Arjan Singh during an early part of their careers.

Both would eventually become C-in-Cs of their respective air forces.

 

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Pilot Officer Idris Hasan Latif In Flight - Audax Aircraft Of No # 3 Squadron Royal Indian Air Force Over Kohat Airfield, 1942 (c).

Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif (9 June 1923–30 April 2018) was the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) of the Indian Air Force, having served as such from 1978 to 1981.

After retirement, he has also served as the governor of the Indian state of Maharashtra (1982–85) and later as the Indian ambassador to France (until 1988). He was the first and only Indian Muslim to become the head of the Indian Air Force, or of any Indian armed forces branch.

 

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Sargodha, blk15

 

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PAF Still Holds Record For F-16 Induction.

PAF Pilots are of very high caliber, commented the Instructor who trained the initial batch of Six PAF pilots on the F-16 Fighting Falcons. According to the author, these comments had even more significance since same USAF Instructor had both American and Israeli Pilots in the course. After nearly Forty Years, this disclosure becomes more apparent as it's said that for nearly four decades, PAF holds the record, as no other Airforce has inducted the F-16s in such a short span of time as did the PAF. While European Air Arms took Four Years and the Israelis completed it in 3.5 Years, the PAF did it in 18 Months. Albeit, this news was carried by few aviation journals at the time however, recently it was confirmed by one of the first 10 pilots who went to US for training (after the first 6, 4 more went who were known as the First 10 Foreign Students). Incredible!!