Images - Pakistan Air Force in the Mirror of History.

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An Aerial Photograph Of Peshawar City Taken By Royal Air Force, 1929 (c).

 

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Tempest-II

 

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Photo taken on visit of RAF Central Flying School
They used to visit to give evaluation ratings of IPs.

 

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Royal Sussex Regiment 2/6th Battalion, Biplanes At Tank, North-West Frontier, C.1917.

Royal Sussex Regiment Collection.

 

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Karachi Air Port in 1930 .

Kala Chappara was like a prominent land mark on the sky line of Karachi.. Ment for Airship which crashed on its inaugural flight in Paris ..



This hangar was part of a 3-structure complex to house R101 and R102 type airships. The other two structures included a tall mooring mast to dock the airship and in the base of the mast was a hydrogen plant to refuel the airship.

The construction on this hangar complex started in 1927 and complete in 1929. The size of this hangar was 859ft L x 200ft W x 170ft H. In 1920s Karachi airport area was nothing but a desolate desert.

 

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1978 ; No. 15 Squadron, Peshawar AFB
Courtesy : Air Commodore (R) Kaiser Tufail

 

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AERO-COMMANDER
1966 - 1968

 

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HALIFAX
1948 - 1954

 

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TEMPEST
1947 - 1956

 

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It's not the gun, it's man behind the gun'

Pakistani F-86 sabre shooting down a MIG-21 in 1971. Even though MIG-21 was a generation ahead of MIG-21 still it got outplayed by F-86 sabre which was about to retire and MIG-21 is still used to this day by Indian air force.

 

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The Douglas DC-3, PM Laiquat Ali Khan Visit to PAF Air Headquarters Peshawar.

 

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Air Vice-Marshal Asghar Khan Presenting The Pakistan Air Force Crest To His Majesty King Mohammed Zahir Shah Of Afghanistan At A Lunch Given In His Honour At PAF Officer's Mess Mauripur, Karachi, 1958.

 

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Mirage Conversion Course Completion

 

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Mirage-IIIEA 90-502 in Pastry Scheme