Flight Lt. Mohana Singh becomes first woman to fly Hawk jet

5 Dariya News

New Delhi 31-May-2019

Flight Lt. Mohana Singh has become the first woman fighter pilot to fly by day on a Hawk advanced jet aircraft, an official statement said on Friday.The statement said the woman officer landed after a gruelling 4-aircraft combat sortie at Kalaikunda Air Force station in West Bengal, which was the last syllabus sortie of being fully operational on the Hawk jets.She and two other women officers - Bhawana Kanth and Avani Chaturvadi - joined the fighter stream in June 2016.Last week, Flight Lt. Bhawana Kanth became the first daytime woman fighter pilot to fly a MiG-21 Bison.Singh's training involved flying both air-to-air combat and air-to-ground missions.She has undertaken many practice missions which involved firing of rockets, guns and dropping high calibre bombs and has also participated in various Air Force level flying exercises.She has a total of over 500 hours of incident-free flying of which 380 hours are on the Hawk Mk 132 jet.