Country India Garrison/HQ AFS Nagpur Transport IL-76 | Role Transport Nickname(s) "Mighty Jets" | |
Motto(s) Ishtam Yatnen Sadhyetah
Achieve Goals with Perseverance | ||
The No. 44 Squadron (Mighty Jets) which is presently based at Nagpur was initially raised at Chandigarh in the year 1961 with AN-12 turboprop aircraft and is now operating the IL-76 aircraft.
No. 44 Squadron flown relief missions to Sri Lanka and Indonesia during tsunami disaster, rescuing men and to avalanche victims in Kashmir as well SOS missions to quake-affected Iran.
References
No. 44 Squadron, IAF Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA