19. Avani Chaturvedi
Avani
Chaturvedi is one of the
first female fighter pilots of India. She is from Satna district in
Madhya Pradesh. She was declared as the first combat pilot along with two of
her cohort, Mohana Singh, and Bhawana Kant. The trio was inducted into the Indian Air
Force fighter squadron in June 2016.
They were formally commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar. Chaturvedi completed
her training at Hyderabad Air Force Academy. She completed her schooling from
Deoland, a small town in Shahdol
district of Madhya
Pradesh.Completing
her Bachelors in Technology from Banas thali University, Rajasthan in
2014, she passed the Indian Air Force exam. Avani was born on 27 October 1993.
Her father, Mr. Dinkar Chaturvedi, is an executive engineer in Water Resource
Department of M.P. government and her mother is a home maker. Avani's elder
brother is also an army officer. Chaturvedi likes to play chess, table tennis
and to do sketching and painting. She was highly inspired by her elder brother
and she also had a few hours of flying experience in the flying club of her
college, which inspired her to join the IAF. After
completing one year of rigorous training at Air Force Academy at Dundigal
(Hyderabad), she became a fighter pilot in June 2016. Once she completes Stage
III training at Bidar in adjoining Karnataka next year, they will be able to fly fighter jets like the
Sukhoi and Tejas.. In 2018, she became the first Indian woman pilot to take a
solo flight in a MiG-21.
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