The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The air force is primarily responsible for air defence of Bangladesh's sovereign territory as well as providing air support to the Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Navy. Furthermore,the BAF has a territorial role in providing tactical and strategic air transport and logistics capability for the country.
Japan Air Lines Flight 472 was an international flight that was hijacked by the Japanese Red Army (JRA) en route from Bombay to Tokyo on 28 September 1977.
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport is the main international airport serving Dhaka City,the capital city of Bangladesh,and it is the largest airport in Bangladesh. It is located in Kurmitola,17 km (11 mi) from the city centre,in the northern part of Dhaka. The airport is also used as a base for the Bangladesh Air Force,named BAF Base Bangabandhu. The airport has an area of 802 hectares. The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) operates and maintains the airport. It started operations in 1980,taking over from Tejgaon Airport as the principal international airport of the country. The airport was formerly known as Dacca International Airport and later as Zia International Airport,before being named in honour of Shah Jalal,who is one of the most respected Sufi saints of Bangladesh. The IATA code of the airport,"DAC",is derived from "Dacca",which is the previously used spelling for "Dhaka".
Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman BS was a Bengali fighter pilot in the Pakistan Air Force from East Pakistan and a recipient of Bir Sreshtho,Bangladesh's highest military award for his actions during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Shah Amanat International Airport,Chattogram is an international airport serving Bangladesh's southeastern port city of Chattogram. Operated and maintained by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh,it is the second-largest international airport in Bangladesh after Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka,Bangladesh. It is used by the Bangladesh Air Force as a part of 'BAF Zahurul Haq Base'. It was formerly known as MA Hannan International Airport,named after Awami League politician M. A. Hannan,but was renamed on 2 April 2005 by the Government of Bangladesh,after an 18th-century Islamic saint,Shah Amanat. It is capable of annually handling 1.5 million passengers and 6,000 tonnes of cargo. It also serves as a base for the Arirang Flying School.
East Pakistan Air Operations covers the activity of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and Pakistan Army Aviation units in former East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The operations involved the interdiction,air defense,ground support,and logistics missions flown by the Bangladesh Air Force,Indian Air Force,and the Indian Navy Aviation wing in support of the Mukti Bahini and later Indian Army in Bengal.
Jashore Airport is a domestic airport in Jashore,Bangladesh that is operated and maintained by the Civil Aviation Authority. It is also used by the Bangladesh Air Force as part of BAF Matiur Rahman Base and training airfield for the Bangladesh Air Force Academy. Currently,it has seven daily flights to Dhaka and a weekly flight to Cox's Bazar. It is the only operational airport of the Khulna Division and the fifth busiest airport of Bangladesh. The airport is located 6 km west of downtown Jashore.
BAF Base Bashar —also known as Tejgaon Airport —is a Bangladesh Air Force military base in Dhaka,Bangladesh. Bangladesh Army also uses this military base. It is also the National Parade Square of Bangladesh. It served as the country's sole international airport prior to the construction of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
The history of aviation in Bangladesh began with kites,the traditional heavier-than-air man-made object,that is flown by one or more people while staying on the ground. The first recorded manned flight was arranged by the Dhaka Nawab Family in 1892,which resulted in the death of the flyer.
M Khademul Bashar,Bir Uttom was the Chief of Air Staff of the Bangladesh Air Force during 1976. He also held the office of Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator and was in charge of the Ministry of Petroleum,the Ministry of Food and Civil Aviation and the Department of Tourism.
1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar,the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations,the 977th year of the 2nd millennium,the 77th year of the 20th century,and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.
Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Abdul Karim Khandker,Bir Uttom is a former planning minister of the Government of Bangladesh. He is a retired diplomat and was the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Armed Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War,He was also the first Chief of Air Staff,getting the appointment immediately after the independence of Bangladesh in 1972.
Saiful Azam (Bengali:সাইফুলআজম;was a Bangladeshi fighter pilot and flying ace,and politician. He first served as a fighter pilot for the Pakistan Air Force and later the Bangladesh Air Force. According to Pakistani sources,during his career as a PAF pilot,he shot down one Indian Air Force aircraft in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War and four Israeli aircraft during the Six-Day War,where he served as a military advisor and mercenary pilot for the air forces of Jordan and Iraq.
Air Marshal (retd.) Jamal Uddin Ahmed is a former chief of Air Staff,the highest appointment in the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF),and former chairman of the board of directors of Biman Bangladesh. He was promoted to Air Marshal by then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the day of his retirement from the BAF in 2001. Three years later,the Khaleda Zia government voided his promotion,declaring it unlawful because there was no such post in the BAF's organizational chart. He appealed the decision to the High Court,which in 2008 restored his rank of air marshal,ruling that he had been stripped of it illegally.
Air Vice Marshal Sultan Mahmud,Bir Uttom was a former chief of the Bangladesh Air Force and a former deputy chief martial law administrator. As a member of Kilo Flight,he is one of the founders of Bangladesh's Air Force. He later served as the Minister of Industries. He received the Independence Day Award from the Government of Bangladesh in 2018.
Air Vice Marshal Mumtaz Uddin Ahmed was a chief of Bangladesh Air Force.
The 1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny was an attempted coup staged on 2 October 1977 by members of Bangladesh Air Force and the Signal Corps of Bangladesh Army. The mutiny was led by Sergeant Afsar Ali Khan of the air force,who was a member of the Communist Party of East Bengal.
Kilo Flight was the code name for the Mukti Bahini combat aviation formation during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It consisted of one DHC-3 Otter plane and one Alouette III helicopter,both carrying rocket pods and machine guns for launching hit-and-run attacks on Pakistani targets,and one DC-3 Dakota for logistical missions. 9 Bengali pilots and 58 former PAF personnel formed the unit under the command of Group Captain A. K. Khandker in September 1971. The aircraft were supplied by Indian Authorities and the formation was led by Squadron Leader Sultan Mahmud under the operational control of IAF base Jorhat. The unit started training in October 1971 at Dimapur in Nagaland,and this unit was the first to launch airstrikes on Pakistani targets in East Pakistan on December 4,1971,by attacking oil depots at Narayanganj and Chittagong. In total,the unit flew 90 sorties and 40 combat missions between December 4 and 16,1971. After the war,this unit formed the core of the nascent Bangladesh Air Force.
Badrul Alam was a squadron leader of the Bangladesh Air Force who fought in the Bangladesh War of Independence,for which the government of Bangladesh gave him the Bir Uttam award,the second highest award for individual gallantry in Bangladesh. In 2016,he received the Independence Day Award.
K.M. Aminul Islam Khan was a former Jatiya Party (Ershad) member of parliament for Munshiganj-3. He was the paternal uncle of M. Hamidullah Khan TJ,SH,BP who was a BDF Commander,Sector 11,1971 War of Independence and public official.
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