No. 126 Helicopter Flight, IAF

No. 126 Helicopter Flight
Active	15 May 1986- Present
Country	Republic of India
Branch	Indian Air Force
Garrison/HQ	Chandigarh AFS
Nickname(s)	"Featherweights"
Aircraft flown
Attack	Mil Mi-26

No. 126 Helicopter Flight (Featherweights) is a fighter squadron and is equipped with Mil Mi-26 and based at Chandigarh Air Force Station.^[1]

History

Only four Mi-26s are serving with this Helicopter Flight and they are Z2896, Z2897, Z3075 and Z3076.

Assignments

This helicopter Flight has carried out extensive flood relief operations Ex-Tezpur in Jan 1989. It also did a commendable job by laying out the roads in Anini sector in the east. Anini sector was earlier totally air maintained. Being a helicopter flight, it can be called upon to carry out casualty evacuation etc.

The flight airlifted generators to cool the storage tanks during the Bhopal Disaster. The flight was also actively involved in the Kargil war wherein it performed missions by day and night.^[2]

Aircraft

Mil Mi-26

References

↑ "Squadrons and Helicopter Units". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
↑ http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/threads/mil-mi-26t2-halo-vs-boeing-ch47f-chinook.34036/page-2

Squadrons of the Indian Air Force

Combat

No. 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
14
15
16
17
18
20
21
22
23
24
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
35
37
47
51
52
101
102
106
108
220
222
223
224

Transport

AHQCS
No. 11
12
25
33
41
43
44
48
49
50
59
77
78
81

Helicopters

Squadrons	No. 104 125

Units	No. 105 107 109 110 111 112 114 115 116 117 118 119 127 128 129 130 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159

Flights	No. 121 122 126 131 132

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