The Air at Yelahanka

AFS Yelahanka, where the biennial Aero India international air shows have been held since the 1990s, is nearing its Platinum Jubilee since its establishment. Joseph Antony recalls its chequered history. Its origins lie in the early 1940s when Italian POWs were engaged to build its runways and other facilities to the time it was resurrected post 1962, becoming the key base for multiengined aircraft conversion training of IAF/IN/CG pilots.