AOC-in-C SAC flies Tejas

After Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria AOC-in-C Southern Air Command made a flight in the Tejas LCA from HAL Airport in Bangalore, on 14 November 2017. T. Suvarna Raju, CMD-HAL

thanked the AOC-in-C “for reposing the faith on this advanced and indigenous combat aircraft.” As a more junior officer, Bhaduria was with the NFTC test-flying the LCA several years back. No. 45 Squadron ‘Flying Daggers’ was equipped with the LCA in July 2016 ( see Vayu V/2017) and the Squadron is expected to move to its permanent location at Sulur, near Coimbatore, next year.