India’s 1st Female Rafale Pilot Part Of IAF Team In France Exercise

New Delhi: Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh is the first female pilot of the Indian Air Force to fly the Rafale fighter jet is part of the IAF contingent taking part in the multinational exercise ‘Orion’ in France.

Reportedly, she is in France to participate in the exercise, where India has sent the Rafale jets for the first time outside the country, IAF officers said.

The IAF had sent a woman fighter pilot for the first time to an international exercise in January this year when Squadron Leader Avni Chaturvedi went to Japan for the exercise ‘Dharma Guardian’.

Flight Lieutenant Singh joined the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 2017 and was commissioned into the IAF’s second batch of women fighter pilots.

Earlier this year, Squadron Leader Avni Chaturvedi became the first woman fighter pilot to participate in an international exercise when she went to Japan for the Dharma Guardian exercise.