- The India’s first woman Rafale fighter jet pilot Shivangi Singh was part of the Indian Air Force tableau at the Republic Day parade on January 26, 2022.
- Shivangi Singh, who hails from Varanasi, is only the second woman fighter jet pilot to be part of the IAF tableau.
- Flight Lieutenant Bhawna Kanth became the first female fighter jet pilot to be part of the IAF tableau in the 2021 parade.
- Singh joined the IAF in 2017 and was commissioned in the IAF’s second batch of women fighter pilots.
- She had been flying MiG-21 Bison aircraft before flying the Rafale. She is part of the IAF’s Golden Arrows squadron based out of Ambala in Punjab.
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