Last overhauled ‘Bison’

HAL Nasik Division has handed over the ‘last’ MiG-21bison aircraft (CU-2780) to the Indian Air Force on 20 October 2020. This was done ‘virtually’ by Mr V Seshagiri Rao, CEO MiG Complex and accepted by Air Marshal Vibhas Pande AOM. HAL had produced 220 MiG-21bis from 1978 till 1987, some 125 of these later being upgraded to ‘Bison’ standard for equipping six IAF squadrons.