No. 14 Squadron PAF

No. 14 Squadron
Tail Choppers
Squadron Logo
ActiveSince 1 November 1948 (1948-11-01)
Disbanded15 January 1949 - 16 December 1949[a]
Country Pakistan
Branch Pakistan Air Force
TypeFighter squadron
RoleMulti-role
Part ofCentral Air Command
AirbasePAF Base Rafiqui
Nickname(s)Tail Choppers
Motto(s)شاهِ مَرداں شیرِ یزداں قوتِ پروردگار
(Urdu for 'The king of men, the lion of Yazdan, the strength of the Lord')
Engagements
Battle honoursKalaikunda 1965
Dhaka 1971
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Squadron leader Shabbir
Air Chief Marshal PQ Mehdi
Squadron Leader Sarfaraz Rafiqui
Air Commodore Sajad Haider
Air Vice Marshal Abdul Razzaq Anjum
Insignia
Patch[b]
Aircraft flown
FighterHawker Tempest
Hawker Sea Fury
F-86 Sabre
CL-13B Sabre
F-16 Fighting Falcon
JF-17 Thunder
InterceptorChengdu F-7
TrainerChengdu FT-7P[2]

The No. 14 Squadron, nicknamed Tail Choppers, is an air superiority squadron of the Pakistan Air Force's Central Air Command. It is one of PAF's most decorated squadrons which earned its nickname after a daring strike mission on the Kalaikunda Air Force Station during the 1965 War. Currently, the Squadron is deployed at PAF Base Rafiqui and operates the PAC JF-17 Thunder multirole aircraft.[3][4][1][5]

  1. ^ a b "No. 14 Squadron". PakDef.Info. Archived from the original on 26 December 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Picture of Sohail Aman climbing into an FT-7P with No. 14 Squadron "Tail Chopper" markings". Pakistan Air Force Official Website. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Today In History (No. 14 Air Superiority Squadron)" (Press release). DGPR Pakistan Air Force. Instagram. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  4. ^ "No. 14 Squadron". GlobalSecurity.org.
  5. ^ Herk, Hans van. "Pakistan JF-17 Thunder unit shuffles". www.scramble.nl. Retrieved 10 December 2020.


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