🇵🇰-Airforce PAF Retired Aircrafts (1 Viewer)

ghazi · Apr 5, 2024

Registration: N1126

Construction Number: 12695

Model Bristol Brigand B1

Operator: Pakistan Air Force

Airport: RAF Habbaniya, Iraq

Photographer: Terry Fox

Date Taken: 1948

Date Submitted: 12/12/2006

Ex RH281 together with N1125 Ex RH820 were delivered in 1948 to Pakistan for evaluation by their Air Force.
N1125 crashed but N1126 returned to the RAF in 1950 as WA560
(Source C.H.Barnes, Brisol Aircraft since 1910, Putnam)

ghazi · Apr 5, 2024

DE HAVILLAND DH.82A TIGER MOTH, D551 / 84880, PAKISTAN AIR FORCE

Registration: D551
Construction Number: 84880
Military Unit: Unknown
Model De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Operator: Pakistan Air Force
Airport: RAF Mauripur, Pakistan
Photographer: Dave Welch Collection
Date Taken: 1952

Original by Malcolm J Bennett, who is known to have served at RAF Mauripur about 1952.
Unfortunately this is the complete horizontal extent of the negative and I'm offering it for its rarity value.
This is thought to be c/n 84880 which is the former T6551 and G-AIHP, which was exported to Pakistan in 1948. Its fate is not known.

ghazi · Apr 5, 2024

Hawker Sea Fury FB 60

One of the largest export customers for the type was Pakistan.
In 1949, an initial order for 50 Sea Fury FB.60 aircraft for the Pakistan Air Force was placed.

A total of 87 new-build Sea Furies were purchased and delivered between 1950 and 1952; some ex-FAA and Iraqi Sea Furies were also subsequently purchased.

The aircraft was operated by three frontline squadrons, No.5, No.9 and No.14 Squadron.

The Sea Fury began to be replaced by the jet-powered North American F-86 Sabre in 1955, and the last Sea Furies in Pakistani service were ultimately retired in 1960.

ghazi · Apr 5, 2024

ghazi · Apr 5, 2024

Hawker Tempest

ghazi · Apr 5, 2024

ghazi · Apr 5, 2024

Quick Overview:

After Pakistan declared independence in 1947, it remained a Constitutional Monarchy of the British Empire for roughly 9 years before it became a republic in 1956.

Resultantly, the Airforce was officially known as the Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) back then and had a bit different roundels and markings than it has today. 60 years later, the airforce has stopped using them but the Pakistan Navy's Naval Air Arm has started to use the same markings on their helicopters and aircrafts. Even though we have the modern PAF roundel in-game, it will be very cool to have these too for historical accuracy

ghazi · Apr 6, 2024

ghazi · Apr 6, 2024

Spitfire Mk IX,

ghazi · Apr 8, 2024

The Royal Pakistan Air Force ushered in the jet age with the arrival of the first Supermarine Attackers, allocated to No. 11 Sqn in August 1951. A rather poor excuse for a jet aircraft featuring conventional controls, unswept wings, and tail-wheels, it was contracted by British leadership seconded to RPAF! As rumours of the aircraft being unsafe spread, one fine morning the mother of a young squadron pilot found her way to base to have a word with the Squadron OC directly and inquire from him if the aircraft was safe to fly. Now any other squadron commander would have given her some words of assurance and sent her on her way, but not F.S. Hussain. The loving mother was provided a comfortable chair to sit just beside the runway as F.S. Hussain strapped into his Attacker and for the next twenty minutes performed low-level aerobatics, including an inverted fly-past barely a few meters off the surface over the Drigh Road airbase runway.

Only F.S. Hussain could pull off a stunt like that. Within a few years, flight safety standards in PAF would go through a transformation, and such displays would become a distant legacy.

Air Cdre F.S. Hussain sadly passed away at 40 years of age due to diabetes. Flt Lt Hassan Zaheer, whose mother was the one that had inquired about the safety of the Attackers, went on to fly the B-57s before moving to PIA from where he retired as a Captain. He left for his heavenly abode last week.

The painting by the famous aviation artist Hussaini depicting this event decorates the home of a fortunate aviation enthusiast.

ghazi · Apr 11, 2024

Hawker Sea Fury in Pakistani Service

The Pakistan Air Force purchased a total of 87 new built Hawker Sea Fury FB.60 fighters between 1950 and 1952. Additionally the F.2/43 prototype NX802 was purchased and rebuilt to the same standard. The F.60 was identical to the FB.11 with naval gear removed. Between 1953 to 54, five ex-Fleet Air Arm FN.11s were purchased after being overhauled by Hawker. Five Sea Fury T.61 two seat trainers were also purchased.

The Pakistani FB.60s were operated by 5, 9 and 14 Squadrons where they were used operationally against Afghan insurgents. Nos 5 and 14 Squadrons had their Sea Furies replaced by North American F-86 Sabres in 1955, while No. 9 had theirs replaced in 1960 by Lockheed F-104 Starfighters. The T.61s continued in service until 1963 as target tugs.