Bhawana Kanth was born on 1 December 1992 and is a female fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force. She was declared the first combat fighter pilot along with two of her cohort, named Mohana Singh, and Avani Chaturvedi. Then Kanth and her other two members got inducted into the Indian Air Force in the year 2016. After the government of India has decided to open the fighter stream in Indian Air Force for the very first time also for women on an experimental basis, however, these three women were the first to be selected for the experimental program.

Early Life:

Kanth did her schooling at DAV Public School located in Barauni. She was all prepared for engineering entrance examinations [jee mains] in Kota, Rajasthan but later joined Bachelor of Engineering in Medical Electronics from BMS College of Engineering, in Chennai. She graduated in the year 2014 and was selected for IT giant Tata Consultancy Services. Kanth’s father Tej Narayan Kanth is an electrical engineer; in the Oil Corporation of India and his mother Radha Kanth is a housewife. Kanth’s other hobbies include was various sports such as Kho Kho, Badminton, swimming and sketching/ painting, etc.

Career and Education:

Kanth had always dreamt of flying planes in the Indian air force. So she decided to take the Air Force Common Admission Test; and got selected to be commissioned into the Air Force. She did her training for almost 1 year and then joined the fighter stream.

In 2016 June, Kanth underwent a six-month-long training for stage-2 on Kiran Intermediate Jet Trainers at Hakimpet Air Force Station situated in Hyderabad after she got commissioned as Flying Officer in the same year. Kanth flies Hawk advanced fighter jet trainers and it has been the plan to move her and the other two of her cohort to Bison squadron MIG 21.

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