India's 1st Woman Rafale Jet Pilot Featured In The Republic Day Air Force Tableau

Nation's 1st woman Rafale fighter jet pilot Shivangi Singh was part of the Indian Air Force tableau at the Republic Day parade. She is only the 2nd woman fighter jet pilot to be part of the IAF tableau.

Shivangi Singh, India's 1st female pilot to fly a Rafale fighter jet, was part of the IAF tableau at Wednesday's Republic Day celebration. Shivangi is the 2nd female fighter jet pilot to serve in the IAF, following Bhawna Kanth, the first female fighter jet pilot to serve in the IAF.

The IAF, evolving for the future was the theme of this year's IAF tableau. During the march past, a tableau appeared on Rajpath with scaled-down models of the Rafale fighter plane, an indigenously designed LCH (light combat helicopter) and the Aslesha MK-1 3D surveillance radar. A scaled-down mockup of the MiG-21 aircraft that played a key part in the 1971 conflict, was also on display.

Singh, who is from Varanasi, joined the IAF in 2017 and was commissioned in the IAF's 2nd batch of women fighter pilots. She had been flying MiG-21 Bison aircraft before flying the Rafale. She is part of the IAF's Golden Arrows squadron based out of Ambala in Punjab