Air Force Gallantry Awards: Named the woman officer who has been given the gallantry award by the Indian Air Force. Who is the first woman pilot of Indian Air Force? Let’s know.
Air Force Gallantry Awards: Deepika Mishra, the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force, has been honored with a gallantry award. He was given this honor by Air Force Chief Air Marshal VR Chaudhary in New Delhi. Along with Deepika, 57 other officers were also given this award.
Deepika Mishra is a Wing Commander in the Airforce. In the year 2021, he was deployed in the floods in Madhya Pradesh. She was engaged with the helicopter in the disaster relief operation. During this campaign which lasted continuously for eight days, he saved the lives of 47 people.
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The Air Force has honored him with a gallantry award for his work. In this way, she became the first woman officer in the history of the Indian Air Force to receive the gallantry award.
Who is Deepika Mishra?
Passed out from Air Force Academy, Deepika is originally from Rajasthan. In the year 2006, his duty started in Chetak unit. Initially, Deepika got to fly a single engine helicopter. At that time women officers were not allowed to fly twin engine helicopters. In the year 2010, the Air Force allowed women pilots to fly twin engine helicopters.
Then he was included in the Sarang team of the Air Force. Four years later, he was made Squadron Leader in the Sarang team. Let us know who was the first female pilot in the Indian Air Force and at what age she took her first flight.
- Harita Kaur Deol was the first woman pilot of the Indian Air Force. On September 2, 1994, at the age of just 22, he made his first successful flight. He died in an air crash on 24 December 1996.
- Avani Chaturvedi is the first woman fighter pilot of the country. She is the first woman fighter pilot to participate in Exercise Veer Guardian in Japan.
- Independent India’s first woman pilot was Usha Sundaram, who made this record at the age of just 22. She was the first woman trainee to pass out from the Government Flying Training School in 1949.
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