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Name Branch Position Decorations Year of Retirement; 1 Hamid Rashid Randhawa GD(P) Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS), AHQ, Islamabad Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)
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The Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) was established on 15 August 1947 with the independence of Pakistan from British India. The RPAF began with a paper share allotment of 2,332 personnel, a fleet of 24 Tempest II fighter-bombers, 16 Hawker Typhoon fighters, two H.P.57 Halifax bombers, two Auster aircraft, twelve North American Harvard trainers and ten de Havilland Tiger Moth biplanes.
PAF Base Shahbaz: F-16C/D Block 52+ [3] [10] No. 7 Squadron: Bandits: Tactical Attack Southern Air Command 32 TA Wing June 1960 PAF Base Masroor: Mirage III ROSE I: No. 8 Squadron: Haiders: Tactical Attack Southern Air Command 32 TA Wing 11 May 1960 PAF Base Masroor: JF-17C Block lll [11] No. 9 Squadron: Griffins: Multi-role Central Air Command ...
July 2022: 1: 1 A319-112 [33] [34] Previously operated by Avion Express (Lithuania). Global 6000: Bombardier: Canada: Jet VIP Transport: 2022: 1: 1 May be converted to EW, ESM, ECM platform in future. [35] [36] Citation V: Cessna United States Jet VIP Transport: 1: 1 [37] Gulfstream IV: Gulfstream: United States Jet VIP Transport: 2004: 2: 2 ...
Eight years after the college was upgraded to an academy in 1967, the T-6G (Harvard), which had rendered extensive service to the PAF since 1947, was replaced by the Mushshak (Saab Trainer). Currently, the trainer aircraft at the PAF Academy are T-37, [24] Mushshak MFI-17 and the K-8, the last of which was brought into service with the PAF in ...
However, in March 2024, the incumbent chief was controversially given a one year extension in his tenure. [4] In November 2024, the term length was increased to five years. [ 5 ] The Chief of the Air Staff is based at the Air Headquarters , and the current chief is Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Babar.
Hence to centralize operations in the theatre, Central Air Command (CAC) was established by the PAF in July 1982. While initially headquartered in the building of Combat Commander's School at PAF Base Sargodha , it was shifted to a new location at the base of the Kirana Hills Site where it stayed for 20 years.