Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 27

The Indian Air Force felicitated its oldest surviving pilot Squadron Leader Dalip Singh Majithia, who turned 102 on Wednesday.

“Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari #CAS on behalf of #IAF and all #AirWarriors conveys warm greetings & heartiest congratulations to Sqn Ldr Dalip Singh Majithia #AirVeteran on his 102nd birthday,” says a put up on the IAF’s official twitter deal with.

The officer was commissioned into the erstwhile Royal Indian Air Force in 1940, becoming a member of No.1 Flight (Coastal Defence) based mostly at Madras. He had participated actively within the Burma marketing campaign in the course of the Second World War.

He had retired from the air pressure in 1947 after serving with a number of institutions, together with No.1 Air Gunnery School, No.3 Squadron, No.4 Squadron and No.6 Squadron and later flew as a personal pilot.

He was additionally the primary pilot to land a aircraft within the Kathmandu valley in 1949 in an plane that his household had acquired. Just 20 years outdated when he had made his first solo sortie, he flew for the final time in January 1979.