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Between 1994 and 2018, IAF commissioned 184 women pilots. Here is the listing - http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/Courses/ . #GunjanSaxenaTheKargilGirl is just one perspective, not the entire perspective.
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The first lady pilot officer in the IAF ever - Flight Lieutenant Priya Nalgundwar http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/23281
The first batch of Lady Pilot officers were sent to transport and Heptrs. Tragically, in 1996, Flying officer Harita Kaur Deol was killed in an Avro accident she was the co-pilot of. ( http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/23284) , thereby becoming the first women pilot casualty in the IAF.
The first course of lady pilots to see action in a war was the 7 SSC (W) Course http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/Courses/courselist.php?qunit=7%20SSC%20(W)(P) - Gunjan Saxena, Sreevidya Rajan were from this course
Squadron Leader Veena Saharan is the First women to pilot the IL-76 - http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/27277
Squadron Leader Teji Uppal from the same course as Veena Saharan is the first to have landed an An-32 at DBO - http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/27278
Flight lieutenant Pallavi Mohapatra became the first women officer to fire the Akash Surface to Air Missile - http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/31885
It took 44 courses - nearly 22 years to have the first female fighter pilots - http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/Courses/courselist.php?qunit=44%20SSC%20(W)(P)
