Antara Mehta Maharastra's First Female Fighter Pilot!

Antara Mehta Maharashtra's first female fighter pilot!

Antara Mehta from Nagpur has been selected as a Fighter Pilot in the Indian Air Force. She has become the first woman in Maharashtra to be elected to this post.

Antara Mehta Maharastra's First Female Fighter Pilot!

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In the ongoing corona crisis in Maharashtra, a good news has come out from Nagpur and it is raising the pride of Maharashtra. Women have proved their mettle in every field. Now Maharashtra has finally got its first female fighter pilot. Her name is Antara Mehta.

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Nagpur-based Antara Mehta has been selected as a 'fighter pilot' in the Indian Air Force. She has become the first woman in Maharashtra to be elected to this post. She is also the only female officer in the country in this year's squad to be selected as a 'Flying Officer'. Antara Mehta is now ready to go to the battlefield. In the form of Antara Mehta, Maharashtra has been crowned.

Flying Officer Antara Mehta, daughter of Ravi & Poonam Mehta becomes the first women Fighter Pilot frm #Nagpur & #Maharashtra at Combined Graduation Parade at Air Force Academy on 20June20. She is the only women officer in her batch selected for Fighter Stream.@SpokespersonMoD pic.twitter.com/G5eF2xTMqI

— PRO Defence Nagpur (@PRODefNgp) June 20, 2020

Antara Mehta received her primary education at Mount Carmel Girls School. She completed his engineering education from Ramdev Baba College of Engineering and Management. She then prepared for the SSB. She then enrolled at the Air Force Academy at Dundigal in Hyderabad. 

Here she flew 'Pilates PC-7', in the second phase he flew 'Kiran MK-1' fighter jet. She was accompanied by 123 trainees in the Passing Out Parade on Saturday last week. Now they will be trained in Hawks fighter jets at Bidar and Kalaikonda.

Antara Mehta is one of the top 10 female fighter pilots in the country -

Antara Mehta is one of the ten female fighter pilots in the country. Nagpur Defense Public Relations Officer has informed about this by tweeting. The tweet reads, "Flying officer Antara Mehta, daughter of Ravi and Poonam Mehta, has now become Maharashtra's first female fighter pilot. Antara is the only female officer in her batch to be selected for the Fighter Stream.

Source - ABPLIVE


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