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The Bangladesh Air Force ( BAF) ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ বিমান বাহিনী, romanized : Bangladesh Biman Bahini) is the aerial warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The air force is primarily responsible for air defence of Bangladesh's sovereign territory as well as providing air support to the Bangladesh ...
Saiful Azam ( Bengali: সাইফুল আজম; ( Urdu: سیف العظم; 11 September 1941 – 14 June 2020) was a Pakistani, and then Bangladeshi fighter pilot, (after 1971 Pakistan-India war) ace, and politician who first served as a fighter pilot for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (1960–1971) and later the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF ...
This is the list of serving Air Officers of the Bangladesh Air Force. At present, the air force has 1 Air Chief Marshal (ACM), no Air Marshal (AM), 14 Air Vice Marshals (AVM). Flag of the Bangladesh Air Force. Air Chief Marshal; Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan,BBP, BUP, nswc, fawc, psc, GD(P) - No 8 GD(P), Chief of Air Staff (COAS) Air ...
The Air Chief Marshal is a category 'A' pilot and a qualified flying instructor. He also holds the proficiency wing and is chief examiner of helicopter examiner board of MI-17/171. An alumnus of Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC), Mirpur, Hannan graduated from Pakistan Air Force Air War College in 1999 and received his MDS and ...
In the BAF he served as an OC of Flying Wing, DC of BAF Academy, Base Commander, Director of Operations and ACAS at the Air Force Headquarters. [1] He was the chief of Bangladesh Air Force from 23 July 1987 to 4 June 1991. [1] He retired on 4 June 1991. [2] Mumtaz Uddin Ahmed died in Dhaka on 22 September 2019, at the age of 74.
Kilo Flight was the code name for the Mukti Bahini combat aviation formation during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It consisted of one DHC-3 Otter plane and one Alouette III helicopter, both carrying rocket pods and machine guns for launching hit-and-run attacks on Pakistani targets, and one DC-3 Dakota for logistical missions. 9 Bengali pilots and 58 ex PAF personnel formed the unit ...
S M Ziaur Rahman, was born in 1955 in to a Muslim family in Gopalgonj. He joined the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) as a flight cadet on March 10, 1975 and was commissioned on December 29, 1976 in the General Duties (Pilot) [GD (P)] branch . Zia graduated from the Defence Services Command & Staff College in Dhaka in 1991 and from the PAF Air War ...
Later many Bangladeshi ex-PAF Officers joined in Bangladesh Air Force in India. Finally Bangladesh Air Force was formed in late July 1971. Indian Air Force trained these Officers July 1971 through November 1971 as fighter pilots. Bangladesh Air Force first went in action on 3 December 1971 and attacked the Chittagong-based Oil tank depot and ...