First woman fighter pilot to fly Hawk jet
03, Jun 2019
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- Flight Lt Mohana Singh has become the first woman fighter pilot to fly by day on a Hawk advanced jet aircraft.
- Her training involved flying both air-to-air combat and air-to-ground missions.
- She and two other women officers, Bhawana Kanth and Avani Chaturvedi, joined the fighter stream in June 2016.
- Flight Lt Bhawana Kanth became the first daytime woman fighter pilot to fly a MiG-21 Bison.