Mohana Singh has become first woman fighter pilot to join the Indian Air Force’s elite 18 ‘Flying Bullets’ squadron, operating India’s indigenously ‘Made in India’ LCA Tejas fighter jets.
The officer Mohana Singh was a part of the recent exercise, Tarang Shakti in Jodhpur, where she was part of historic flight by three chiefs of the three forces.
About Mohana Singh
Mohana Singh became the first female fighter pilot of India Indian Air Force in June 2019, to become a fully operational day by day on a Hawk Mk. 132, advance jet trainer at Bidar Air Force Station.
She is one of the three women pilots including Sqn Ldr Bhawna Kanth and Sqn Ldr Avni Chaturvedi who inducted into the Indian Air Force fighter squadron in June 2016.
After the Indian government decided to open the fighter stream in the Air Force to women on an experimental basis, these three women were the first to be chosen for the program.
Mohana Singh comes from Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan. Her father Master Warrant Officer Pratap Singh was a serving Indian Air Force personnel and mother is a teacher.
She is part of No. 3 Squadron Cobras, flying the MiG-21 at NAL Air Force Station in Bikaner. Recently, she transferred from flying MiG-21s to the LCA squadron stationed at Naliya air base in Gujarat, near the Pakistan border
In the year 2020, March 9 she awarded with Nari Sakthi Puruskar by president Ram Nath Kovind along with Flt Lt Avani Chaturvedi, Flt Lt Bhawna Kanth the two other women pilots.
The Indian Air Force has around 20 women fighter pilots after government open the fighter stream for woman after 2016.
