Images - Pakistan Air Force in the Mirror of History.

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Aerial view of the RAF flying boat-base at Korangi Creek, near Karachi..
Date: July 1945.
Source: © IWM (CI 1456)

P-51's MOVING THROUGH THE STREETS OF KARACHI. Unloaded from Liberty ships in Karachi Harbor, these fighter planes were hauled to Karachi Air Base.

Jeeps tow "P-47 fighter planes" down a street in Karachi, British India, (now Pakistan) after the aircrafts are unloaded in the harbor. These planes are towed 15 miles inland to the air base where they used to be serviced.
Date: 1940

 

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Retired aircraft​

Type	Origin	Class	Role	Introduced	Retired	Total
Chengdu F-7P Skybolt	China	Jet	Interceptor	1988	2023	120
SA316 Aérospatiale Alouette III	France	Helicopter	Search and rescue	1967	2019	35
Shenyang FT-5	China	Jet	Advanced Jet Trainer	1975	2012	50
Nanchang A-5III/C	China	Jet	Attack	1983	2011	55
Boeing 707	United States	Jet	VIP Transport	1986	2008	3
Shenyang F-6	China	Jet	Fighter	1965	2002	253
Mig-19	Soviet Union	Jet	Air superiority fighter	1965	2002	5
Lockheed T-33	United States	Jet	Trainer	1955	1993	21
Kaman HH-43B	United States	Helicopter	Search and rescue	1964	1993	4
Martin B-57 Canberra	United States	Jet	Bomber	1959	1985	28
Grumman SA-16A Albatross	United States	Propeller	Patrol	1950s	1981	4
Shenyang JJ-2/FT-2	China	Jet	Fighter	1966	1980	6
North American F-86 Sabre	United States	Jet	Fighter	1955	1980	210
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter	United States	Jet	Fighter	1961	1972	12
Sikorsky H-19D	United States	Helicopter	Search and rescue	1950s	1971	8
North American T-6 Harvard T-6G	United States	Propeller	Trainer	1947	1970s	12
Hawker Siddeley Trident Trident 1E	United Kingdom	Jet	Transport	1967	1970	4
Harbin H-5	China	Jet	Bomber	1966	1969	16
Bristol Freighter	United Kingdom	Propeller	Transport	1950s	1966	81
Hawker Sea Fury	United Kingdom	Propeller	Fighter	1949	1963	97
Vickers VC.1 Viking	United Kingdom	Propeller	Transport	1947	1962	1
Supermarine Attacker F Mk.1	United Kingdom	Jet	Fighter	1951	1958	36
de Havilland Tiger Moth	United Kingdom	Propeller	Trainer	1947	1957	7
Hawker Tempest II	United Kingdom	Propeller	Fighter	1947	1956	16
Douglas Dakota	United States	Propeller	Transport	1947	1955	2
Handley Page Halifax	United Kingdom	Propeller	Bomber	1948	1954	16
Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII	United Kingdom	Propeller	Fighter	1947	1947
Bell H-13 Sioux	United States	Helicopter	Light observation			13

 

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Hassan Riaz​

 

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Credit ... Hassan Riaz

 

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Credit .... Hassan Riaz​

 

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Dakota MK IV of KN 394 of 187 Squadron of RAF at Mauripur Air Terminal, Karachi, during WWII.
Date: 1940s.

 

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F-27 was inducted in PAF in 1965. After the F-27 air crash on Feb, 2003 (in which PAF Air Chief and 16 other men lost their lives) the last and final F-27 serving in PAF was phased out in 2004.

 

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In 1959, the United States handed over to Pakistan 25 B-57B aircraft removed from the armament of the disbanded 345th Bomber Group.

The external difference of these planes was the more pointed nose of the fuselage, in which the all-weather RB-1A Georgia Peach bomber system was installed. In the Pakistan Air Force, bombers went into service with the 7th and 8th squadrons, which took part in the bitter battles of the wars of 1965 and 1971.

During these wars, the Indian Air Force used English Electric Canberra as bombers and scouts, similarly the Pakistan Air Force used American-built Martin B-57s.

Martin B-57 , Sqn Ldr Najeeb Ahmed Khan... 8 pass charlie

 

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Sherdils Aeros, Risalpur, 1981.

Standing L-R: F/L Imtiaz Shaikh, F/L Arif Moeen, W/C Aamir Sharief (Leader), S/L Niaz Nabi (Reserve Leader), F/L Kaiser Tufail, F/L Amjad Rathore, Kneeling L-R: F/L Tahir Rafique, Unknown, F/L Zahid Qadeer.

© K. Tufail

 

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Pakistan Air Force used 63 T-37, Including 24 T-37Bs and 39 T-37Cs. In 2008 20 T-37s were delivered from the U.S. On 28 October 2015, the Turkish Air Force gave the Pakistan Air Force 34 T-37Cs, including spares in an agreement between Turkey and Pakistan.

Pakistan Air Force Cessna T-37B Tweety Bird (318)
Reg No TE-072, From the 'Basic Flying Training' wing.
© Hamza Tariq

 

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Royal Air Force Fighters At Peshawar, Circa 1925.

From 1922 To 1940 Royal Air Force Station Peshawar housed 4 RAF Squadrons: Nos 5, 20, 28 And 31. The Station Provided Close Support To Army Units Which Included The Nowshera Brigade And Other Field Regiments In The North-West Frontier.

The nearer one is an Avro 504 trainer and the one behind it is a DH9A light bomber.

 

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Royal Air Force Peshawar Aerodrome, Circa 1930.

The Two Photographs Show Bristol F2B Fighters Of No # 5 And 20 Squadrons Concentrated At Peshawar Prior To Raid On Afridi Country.

 

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1999 , Seven Officer's from 60th GD(P) getting promoted to Air Commodore AHQ ..
A memorable picture.

 

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Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan was to formally induct the aircraft (Hawker Fury aircraft) and name it “Jahanzeb” (visible just below the cockpit canopy), after the son of the Wali (Ruler) of Swat. This aircraft was gifted to Pakistan by the Wali-e-Swat.
Date: 1948

Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan is being welcomed by Air Marshal Sir Richard Llewellyn Roger Atcherley at the occasion of the induction of a Hawker Fury aircraft into the then Royal Pakistan Air Force, a gift from Wali-e-Swat.