Images - Pakistan Air Force in the Mirror of History.

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Old image of HQ-2 Black Arrow SAM system (now retired) of PAF Air defence Command.
Seeing the colour picture for the first time. Used to be at Chaklala and the version PAF operated was HQ 2B, Chinese improved variant of venerable SA 2.
Half baked copy of soviet S-75 Dvina, which india got in 1964 & PAF got two decades later in 1983.
It did a very good job in Vietnam.

 

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RPAF 10 GDP, group photo after passing out .

 

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1951: Pilot Officers from Flight Group C of the Royal Pakistan Air Force, Aeronautical Engineering Program, Air University, Hamble, UK.

P/O Khalil-Ur-Rehman (1st from left), P/O Muhammad Saeed (2nd from left), P/O (retd as Air Commodore) Syed Abid Raza (3rd from left), and P/O Muhammad Ashfaq Mian (5th from left)

 

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Formation

 

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Formation

 

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Activation of Samugli Base in 1969/70 by 18 Sqn Masroor.

L-R Sajid Sb., Farooq Siddiq, Liang and Taloot Mirza.

 

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1972, NO: 15 Squadron. Peshawar.

Standing L-R: F/O Naseem Deen sb, F/O Ameen Taqi Butt , F/L Farhad Saeed Khan, F/O Tariq Blaooch, F/L Rizwan (Late) , P/O Tariq Ahsan, P/O Shahid Aslam(Late) , P/O Muhammad Mujahid.

 

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No ; 2 Sqn, PAF Masroor.
Khurshid, Saeed and Naseem Gul.
Riffat Munir, Tabassum Khalid and Shabbir ‘Angel’.

 

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A group photograph of the 45th GD(P) Course while doing the F-86 transition course in Peshawar circa 1968. Sitting L-R: Tanvir Afghan, Raffat Jamil and Khurshid Mehmood. Standing L-R: Saleem B.Liang, Tahir Alam, Ahmed TZ, Shabbir "Angel" (2nd Short Course), Riffat Munir, Zubair Alam, Ghalib Quddusi, Akbar Din and Tahseen.

 

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During the late 1920s, the British Empire planned a global airship route, and Karachi was selected as one of its most important docking stations due to its strategic coastal location and vast open flat lands.

To support the project, they constructed a massive airship hangar along with a tall mooring mast near what is now Jinnah International Airport.

This hangar — later famously known as Kala Chapra (The Black Shed) — became one of the largest structures in the region and a major landmark of early aviation history. It was specially designed to house the giant airship R101.

Although the R101 tragically crashed in 1930 en route to Karachi and never arrived, the city earned a unique place in aviation history as home to one of the world’s few airship docks — marking a fascinating chapter in Karachi’s journey as an aviation hub.