Our Heroes - Pakistan Air Force

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The league of extra ordinary Gentlemen ..

 

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Sqn Ldr Shabbir Hussain Syed .. the F-86F t.
He commanded the No. 14 Sqn based at Dacca during the 1965 war and retired as an Air Marshal.
The great war veteran past away on 29 April 2002 and was laid to rest in his native village near Basal.

 

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A memorable photo of Late Air Cdre Saad Hatmi standing in front of IAF Gnat, captured in 1965 which is still present in PAF museum as a war trophy. Saad Akhtar Hatmi flew Gnat from Pusrur to Sargodha.

 

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Each and every man a legend.

 

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Junior technicians of PAF:
Tariq Abbass Shaheed TJ
Saqib Javed Shaheed TJ
Shan e Ali Shaheed
They embraced Martyrdom while fighting bravely with terrorists when Badhaber Airbase was attacked.
Saqib Javed and Tariq Abbas are 2 of 5 martyred recipient of Tamgha-e-Jurat against WOT .

 

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INDIAN GNAT – THE WAR TROPHY
On 3 September, 1965 two F104s, flown by Flt Lt Hakimullah and Flg Off Abbas Mirza, were scrambled from Sargodha to intercept four Indian Gnats. During the ensuing combat, one Gnat, which had strayed away from its main formation, being unable to combat the F-104s, surrendered and force-landed at an abandoned airfield at Pasrur near Sialkot. Flt Lt Hakimullah circled overhead until the capture of the aircraft and the pilot was assured by Pakistani troops. The pilot of the captured Gnat was Sqn Ldr Brij Pal Singh, who later rose to be an Air Marshal in the IAF. This aircraft was then ferried from Pasrur to Sargodha by Flt Lt Saad Hatmi.

Gnat is a single seat fighter manufactured by a British company Folland Aircraft in 1955.

It was also manufactured in India by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. This agile fighter was inducted in Indian Air Force in 1959. It had one Rolls Royce engine (Orpheus 701) with a thrust of 4520 lbs. It could climb to a height of 50,000 feet.

It had two 30mm built in cannons. Gnat could carry two 500 lbs bombs or eighteen 3 inches rockets under its wings.

 

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Two Nouman's in one pic
WC Nouman Akram Shaheed & Gp Capt Nouman Ali Khan.
(Both were Sqn Ldr at the time photo was taken.
(Photo from Exercise Red Flag)

 

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Ground Crew

Squadron Leader Abdul Hameed Qadri poses in front of horizontal stabilizer(?) of one of the DRAAF Su-22s he shot down on 17th May 1988, over Parachinar.

 

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One of the Su-22s was shot down using AIM-9L while other fell prey to M61A1 Vulcan cannon fire. Wingman was S/L Yousaf (later AM). Radar controller was late F/O Arshad. Qadri was awarded Sitar-e-Basalat. Unfortunately, we lost Qadri when he was Air Commodore commanding Minhas AFB in F-7P crash. Subsequently PAF satellite airfield in Skardu was renamed after him.

Members of "The Tigers", The 2nd formation aerobatic team on the F-6 fighters of the PAF.
Photographed at Sargodha.
From L to R: Flt Lt Nazar Hussain, Sqn Ldr Tahir Ahmed, Sqn Ldr Hasnat Ahmed, Sqn Ldr Imtiaz Ali Khan, and Flt Lt Abdul Razzaq.

SSW

'Salute to a Mujahid' You are the epitome of professional excellence and leadership. You have set an incredibly high standard for excellence.
The nation salutes you for your exemplary service.

 

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List of Pioneering Officers as on 15th August, 1947

(Ranks stated are Substantive) Pilots Date of Birth Date of Commission Squadron Leaders Mohammad Khan Janjua 19-05-14 15-07-35 Haider Raza 23-09-16 15-02-40 Flight Lieutenants Maqbool Rabb 12-11-14 15-02-40 Edwin Nazir Ullah 18-10-18 01-08-40 Mohammad Asghar Khan 17-01-21 22-12-40 Mirza Abdul Rahman 01-01-20 30-11-40 Mohammad Akhtar 10-07-21 06-01-41 Mohammad Mukhtar Ahmad Cheema 05-08-15 06-01-41 Flying Officers Malik Nur Khan 22-02-23 06-01-41 Zahiruddin Ahmad 24-01-18 03-03-41 Balwant Kumar Dass 30-04-18 03-03-41 Salah-ud-Din 09-03-16 10-11-41 Stephen Aratoon Joseph 27-03-21 10-11-41 Mohammad Ibrahim Khan 19-01-23 10-11-41 Mian Ata Rabbani 30-09-19 15-12-41 Mohammad Salim Khan 01-07-17 05-04-42 Said Akhtar Aziz 13-07-21 07-09-42 Abdullah Beg 03-08-24 29-06-42 Sahebzada Manzur Hussain 01-09-16 29-06-42 Abdul Naeem Aziz 01-11-23 29-06-42 Mohammad Jamiluddin Khan 17-10-19 29-06-42 Abdul Majeed Khan 23-08-24 29-06-42 Shei kh Niaz Ahmad 03-02-20 21-12-42 Mohammad Khyber Khan 15-03-24 21-12-42 Saleem Jamal-ud-Din 03-02-21 21-12-42 Syed Inam-ul-Rehman Bokhari 19-02-23 29-03-43 Aziz-ul-Rehman Khan 24-03-20 29-03-43 Abdul Oadir 24-08-22 27-09-43 Nawabzada Haider Mirza 21-10-22 27-09-43 Abu Khaled Salahuddin Ahmad 01-03-23 08-11-43 Mohammad Mazhar Jaffrey 09-07-21 08-11-43 Eric Gordon Hall 12-10-22 20-12-43 Mohammad Sarwar Khan 01-10-18 31-01-44 Mohammad Hasan Jamil 18-06-21 12-03-44 Janmast Afridi 17-08-25 24-04-44 Salahuddin 14-11-23 24-04-44 Abdur Rahim Khan 25-07-23 05-06-44 Mohammad Wasim Khan 13-07-23 17-07-44 James Jebb Robin Louis 26-02-22 17-07-44 Mohammad Iqbal Rahman 23-10-24 17-07-44 Zaffar Mahmud 12-04-23 04-09-44 Masroor Hosain 29-12-22 04-09-44 Fuad Shahid Hussain 20-07-24 04-09-44 Zafar Ahmad Chaudhry 19-08-26 09-04-45 Syed Mansoor Ahmad Shah 11-03-26 09-04-45 Mohammad Ashraf Sheikh 01-05-25 21-05-45 Mohammad Sajjad Akhtar 17-02-25 25-06-45 S Mohammad Shamsul Haque 01-05-26 07-08-45 Saeedullah Khan 23-07-26 17-09-45 Pilot Officers Nazir Ahmad Siddiqui 28-08-23 09-04-45 Mohammad Abbas 16-01-25 17-09-45 Patrie Desmond Callaghan 16-07-26 17-09-45 Mohammad Ashraf 02-12-24 29-04-46 Stephen Israel 25-05-26 29-04-46 Mahmood J an 01-09-26 29-04-46 Chaudhry Rab Nawaz 15-05-24 29-04-46 Michael John O'Brian 05-01-28 29-04-46 Mohammad Saleem Sheikh 28-08-24 29-04-46 Khalid Bin Majid 15-08-27 01-06-46 Oswald Lionel Springett 18-07 -27 01-06-46 Suleman Soni Afzal 12-09-26 16-09-46 Aubrey Neil Macleish Game 16-10-26 16-09-46 Shamsuzzoha Khan 23-11-23 16-09-46 I mtiaz Hussain Khan 23-11-23 22-09-46 Mohammad Zafar Masud 17-10-27 25-02-46 Navigators Flying Officers Mir Abdul Jalil 03-08-17 28-03-42 Leslie H F De'Cruz 18-04-13 14-06-42 Yusuf Ali Aziz 16-05-21 27-09-42 Kamal Ahmad 31-07-23 25-02-46 Malik Mohammad Iqbal 15-11-23 06-10-46 Tahir Saleem Jan 18-05-26 06-10-46 Sher Afzal Khan 01-01-24 06-10-46 Air Gunners Flying Officers Mian Mohammad Shafi 08-12-13 20-04-42 Alfred Jag J ivan 09-02-20 28-08-42 Ghulam Ali 10-02-18 17-02-43 Technical Engineering Flying Officers Jalil-ur-Rahman Khan 01-08-17 21-12-42 Abdul Hai 13-05-14 12-10-43 Mohammad Mahboob 03-02-09 12-12-43 Mohammad Siddiq 01-06-10 19-11-46 Pilot Officers Syed Khalilur Razzak 12-06-14 10-10-42 Technical Electrician Flying Officers Abdul Mannan Khan 17-07-17 13-06-43 Technical Signals Flying Officers Zulfiqar Ali Aziz 05-08-17 29-06-42 Rana Mohammad Saeed 13-04-18 31-10-42 Abdus Salam Butt 30-12-14 29-03-43 Malik Bashir Ahmad 14-07-14 12-08-43 Mohammad Mustafa Khan 03-07 -22 12-10-43 Technical Armament Pilot Officer Vivian Deryck Marston 19-01-20 14-05-43 Admin And Special Duties Flight Lieutenants Abdul Mofazil Alahdad 21-02-15 01-08-40 Said-ud-Din, M B E 19-08-13 14-08-41 Flying Officers Abdul Rahman 15-12-00 12-03-42 Mohammad Ilyas Khan 15-12-15 26-01-42 Mustafa Kamal 02-05-22 15-12-41 Sardar Hamid Omar 17-12-17 05-04-42 Hamid Ali Soofi 09-08-06 08-08-42 Lal Mohammad Dutta 06-10-94 29-08-42 Rana Fakher-uz-Zaman 18-12-22 12-10-42 Mohammad Mahbub Piracha 22-10-22 31-10-42 Mohammad Khalil Khan 08-07-04 31-01-42 Shahzada Taimur Shah 20-01-22 31-10-42 Saied-ud-Din 10-06-07 31-10-42 Syed Munawar Hasan 16-02-05 31-10-42 Agha Habib Ahmad 20-01-11 27-11-42 Flying Officers Mohammad Akbar Khan 11-07-09 27-11-42 Dost Mohammad Khan 01-02-14 27-11-42 Ghulam Safdar Khan 12-07-16 29-12-42 Firman Wali Khan 10-08-18 12-01-43 Fahimuz-Zaman 20-08-10 12-01-43 Syed Masud Ahmad 01-10-20 12-01-43 Mohammad Yousaf Khan 05-10-12 12-01-43 Munir-ud-Din Ahmad 20-07-20 21-10-42 Aminullah Khan 12-01-13 05-02-43 Hamid Ullah Bhatty 13-02-05 12-02-43 Abdul Khair Sayidur Rahman 19-02-19 04-03-43 Syed Shamsuddin Khalid 12-03-09 14-03-43 Aftab Ahmad 08-09-18 14-03-43 Sahebzada Anweruddin Ahmad 07-02-16 14-03-43 Malik Aqil Khan 02-03-18 14-03-43 Mohammad Fazil Khan 27-03-13 14-03-43 Mohammad Amir Khan 10-07-20 31-07-42 Melville Robert Ritchie 10-09-23 29-03-43 Abdul Ghayur Kakar 16-07-18 11-04-43 Zia-ud-Din Ahmad 17-10-11 11-04-43 Johnson Edward Lewis 14-12-97 11-04-43 Sultan Ahmad 30-12-16 13-06-43 Mohammad Shafi 13-10-09 13-06-43 Mohammad Tufail Khan 01-02-09 13-06-43 Sultan Salahuddin Fatih 10-09-22 13-06-43 Abdus Sattar Saggu 10-07-12 12-07-43 Syedul Islam 26-01-15 12-07-43 Sheikh Ghulam Hassan 20-09-12 12-08-43 Mohammad Akram 05-10-15 12-08-43 Rahat Bokhari 03-03-03 12-08-43 M Mohammad Said 24-01-14 12-08-43 Malik Shabbir Hussain 27-03-17 12-08-43 Hubert Joseph Cardeaux 19-11-99 12-09-43 Archibald Vivian Engles 10-11-16 12-09-43 Mohammad Hafeezullah 20-07-10 12-09-43 Anwar Mansoor jafree 12-02-16 12-09-43 Syed Riaz Qutb 01-05-13 12-09-43 Syed Ghazanfar Ali Shah 01-01-08 12-10-43 Abdul Rauf Khan 13-05-17 12-10-43 Joseph Martyn Octavious 26-01-11 12-11-43 Sufi Ahmad Hussain 05-08-15 12-11-43 Mohammad Baqir 01-01-09 12-11-43 Mohammad Afzal Khan 16-09-18 12-11-43 TasiLdduq Hussain Gardezi, 14-09-12 12-11-43 Chaudri Ataullah Mahes 12-08-11 12-11-43 Kamaluddin Ahmad 15-04-20 28-03-42 Noel Ternice Monis 26-11-15 11-03-44 Chaudri Shahbaz Khan 28-06-22 22-01-43 Mohammad Yahya Butt 01-09-23 31-03-43 Sahebzada Imtiaz Khan 30-09-20 03-03-41 Sarfaraz Ali 15-06-98 12-10-43 Najib Ullah Khan 19-06-19 14-03-43 Khurshid Ahmad Hashmi 09-01-09 13-05-45 Syed Mustafa Hussain Razvi 05-05-06 13-05-45 Anis Ahmad Khan Shirwany 16-01-23 19-08-45 Mohammad I kram Khawaja 05-07-14 19-08-45 Mohammad Afazur Rahman 01-08-14 19-08-45 Zafar Husain Khan 06-11-12 21-10-45 Pir Ataullah Shah 20-12-04 21-10-45 Herbert Winston Hyland 23-10-14 21-10-45 Mumtaz Khan 09-03-17 21-10-45 Syed Taqi Zaidi 16-11-15 21-10-45 Pilot Officer Mohammad Nizam-ud-Din Ansari 11-06-17 09-12-45 Meteorological Mohammad Abid Faruqi 15-07-14 11-03-44 Mohammad Abdul Baaquie 01-01-20 08-04-45 Equipment Flight Lieutenant Malik Abdul Rashid Khan 15-10-11 22-10-40 Flying Officers Syed Mushtaq Ahmed 10-01-15 25-01-42 Mohammad Amin Rizwani 19-05-21 31-10-42 Rafiq Ahmad Qureshie 03-02-02 31-10-42 Nazir Ahmad Rishi 08-10-11 11-04-43 Mohammad Hamim Khan 30-06-18 19-05-43 Rafi-ur-Rahman Khan 22-10-22 20-05-43 Abdul Hamid Khan 12-11-21 13-06-43 Syed Ishrat Hussain Zaidi 01-05-07 12-09-43 Abdul jabbar Khan 01-01-12 12-09-43 William Satis Chandra Biswas 11-04-94 14-03-43 Mirza Haider Raza 11-05-11 12-11-43 Taj Ahmad Khan 16-03-04 12-12-43 Saidullah Butt 05-06-12 12-12-43 Sirajuddin Zafar 24-03-12 12-12-43 Abdul Majeed Khawaja 02-01-16 19-08-45 Accounts Flying Officers Qasim Hussain 10-03-15 27-11-42 Syed Zahurul Askari 14-04-12 08-02-43 Iftakhar Ahmad Qazi 18-05-17 12-09-43 Hashem Jamal Dhannani 24-12-14 12-10-43 Mohammad Akram Butt 21-08-18 12-11-43 Mohammad Anwar Toor 10-01-22 12-08-43 Hassan Ali Shah 10-05-10 21-10-45 Sheikh Ghulam Sadiq 19-11-11 13-06-43 Aftab Ahmad Bilgrami 10-06-14 21-10-45 Zahir-ud-Din Uraizee 02-08-15 12-08-43 Medical Flight Lieutenants Basheer Ahmad 01-04-16 05-10-41 Mohammad Masudal Haque 01-03-14 17-10-43 Syed Baqir Hussain Gardezi 13-04-16 05-06-42 Mumtaz Hussain 22-04-20 18-02-43 Syed Abid Hasnain 15-05-17 18-02-43 Mir Rifat Mahmood 12-02-18 18-02-43 Allauddin 01-04-19 18-02-43 Nawab Khan 10-03-21 14-07-43 Sheikh Abdul Ghafoor 21-10-18 18-11-43 Mohammad Aslam Khan 06-04-23 14-07-44 Syed Ahmad Raza Peerzada 05-04-21 14-07-44 Education Flying Officers Syed Fayyaz Mahmud 03-10-06 13-06-43 Asghar Husain 01-08-14 12-09-43 Mohammad Daud 09-03-17 12-10-43 Wali-ud-Din 03-11-15 12-10-43 Malik Mohammad Ibrahim 01-01-16 12-10-43 Ahbabullah Kakakhel 01-07-15 11-02-44 Charles Malcolm Revis 01-02-05 11-02-44 Mirza Nisar Ali Beg 15-06-08 11-03-44 Qamqam Hussain) afri 15-01-15 13-07-44 Hassan-ud-Din 28-07-18 24-08-44 Syed Mohammad 01-01-18 05-10-44 Mohammad Nazir Qazi 06-08-08 03-03-45 Mohammad Ismail Qureshi 15-11-09 13-05-45 Abbas Akhtar Sheikh 02-12-16 17-06-45 Legal Flight Lieutenant Syed Mohammad Aslam 21-06-00 14-04-42

 

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Commanders of Tempest Squadrons of the RPAF

No. 5 Squadron Falcons
S/L Zahiruddin Ahmad (1672)	Aug 1947
S/L Syed Inam-ur-Rehman Bukhari (2379)	Oct 1948
S/L Mohammad Mazhar Jaffery (3177)	Feb 1950
S/L Julian Kazimierz Żuromski (835)	July 1950
S/L Fuad Shahid Hussain (3002)	Nov 1951
No. 9 Squadron Dragons now Griffins
S/L Mohammad Ibrahim Khan (1748)	Aug 1947
S/L Balwant Kumar Dass (1673)	Dec 1947
S/L Abdul Naeem Aziz (1907)	Mar 1948
S/L Aziz ur Rehman Khan (2358)	Feb 1949
S/L Abdul Majeed Khan (1913)	July 1949
S/L Nawabzada Haider Mirza (3171)	Dec 1949
S/L Abdur Rahim Khan (2927)	July 1950
S/L Zafar Ahmad Chaudhry (3095)	Sept 1950
No. 14 Squadron Shaheens now Tail Choppers
S/L Mohammad Khyber Khan (2133)	Oct 1948
S/L Julian Kazimierz Żuromski (835)	Nov 1949
S/L Ronald Duncan Rollo (1864)	July 1950
S/L Masroor Hosain (3001)	Nov 1951
No. 12 Squadron
S/L Mukhtar Ahmad Dogar (2353)	July 1950
W/C Janmast Afridi (2879)	July 1954
F/L Syed Mohammad Asghar (875)	Nov 1955
W/C Robin Lovis James Jebb (2967)	Apr 1956
W/C H M C Misra (3359)	May 1957
W/C Syed Mansoor Ahmad Shah (3104)	Apr 1958

Nominal Roll of pilots of

No. 5 Sqn on 15 August 1947:

S/L Zahiruddin Ahmad (1672)

F/O Fuad Shahid Hussain (3002)

F/O Saeed Ullah Khan (3241)

F/O Janmast Afridi (2879)

F/O Mohammed Sajjad Akhtar (3149)

F/O Mohammad Ashraf Sheikh (3137)

F/O Syed Inam-ur-Rehman Bukhari (2379)

F/O Mohammad Waseem Khan (2977)

F/O Mohammad Iqbal Rahman (2976)

No.9 Squadron in early 1950:

S/L Nawabzada Haider Mirza (3171)

F/L Abdur Rahim Khan (2927)

F/O Trevor Harold Gotting (802)

F/O Mohammad Zafar Masud (3314)

P/O Frederic Alan Isaacs (981)

P/O Mohammad Aslam Janjua (987)

P/O Kabir Khan (958)

P/O Mohyuddin Pir (991)

Notable Tempest pilots

S/L Abdur Rahim Khan (2927) C-in-C PAF

S/L Zafar Ahmad Chaudhry (3095) CAS PAF

Jim Raymond remembers flying Hawker Tempest II in Pakistan

Text: Franciszek Grabowski

 

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A memeorable Sortie ... Flying With Ex Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman

 

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Legendary Falcons of the PAF Wing Commander Masood Ahmed Sikandar (Sitara-i-Juraat) flew his last sortie today at 5:17 PM CST to meet his maker.

May Allah SWT raise him to the highest of abodes & grant the family the strength & fortitude to bear this tremendous loss. Ameen

إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ

Wing Commander Masood Ahmed Sikander, in the capacity as Wing Leader, proved to be an excellent operational commander.

He flew with zeal and enthusiasm and completed seventeen close support sorties and three air defence missions during these operations.
Whilst attacking enemy armor, he was wounded when his aircraft was hit by ground fire.

For his valour, courage and excellent leadership Wing Commander Masood Ahmed Sikander was awarded Sitara-i-Juraat.