The most vintage of the aircraft collection with the Air Force Academy is undoubtedly...
Dundigal
Situated 43km from the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad is the Air Force Academy [AFA] at Dundigal village. The AFA is the cradle of training not only for the IAF pilots, but also for the ground duty and technical officers . Established at this location in the year 1971, every year two batches of pilots graduate to proceed for further training in the Fighter , Transport and the Helicopter wings at other training establishments.
The AFA has numerous HPT-32 Deepak piston engine trainers to impart Ab-initio training and HAL HJT-16 Kiran Mk 1 Jet Trainers to impart basic Jet aircraft training. Apart from this, Ground Duty officer training is also carried out in various trades
The Harvard was the second oldest aircraft in the AFA’s collection. On display just...
Besides one of the Hangars housing the HPT-32s being flown by the Cadets every...
On 16th December 2004, a solemn ceremony was marked at Hakimpet to commemorate the...
MiG-21FL [Type77] C584 arrived at the AFA in 2009, along with a MiG-23MF. Its...
n front of the Flying Cadets Mess, is a MiG-21 FL Type-77 [C-1167] in...
In 2001, a new addition to the inventory of vintage aircraft collection of the...
Two views of the HAL HPT-32 Deepak [X3246] "X-Ray" aircraft which was...
HJT-16 Kiran [U-718] was converted into a "Cutaway" aircraft and displayed first in June...
The AFA has a rare example of one of the prototype models of the...