India - Navy Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 IN188
Javier González
Image ID: 1479038
Views: 99
Operator: India - Navy - IN188
Aircraft: Hawker - Sea Hawk FGA.6
Airport: India - Off Airport - India
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2011-12-17 by Arjun Sarup [Contact]
Camera setting: NIKON D300S, 1/200s, f/4.2 at 35mm ISO 320
Image ID: 1479038
Views: 99
Operator: India - Navy - IN188
Aircraft: Hawker - Sea Hawk FGA.6
Airport: India - Off Airport - India
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2011-12-17 by Arjun Sarup [Contact]
Camera setting: NIKON D300S, 1/200s, f/4.2 at 35mm ISO 320
Photographer's remark
(25.8.2022, 07:19 CET)
Sea Hawk on display at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. This is one of 74 that was operated by the Indian Navy. The leaping White Tiger of Rewa on the nose denotes the emblem of INAS 300, IN’s first carrier-based fighter squadron commissioned on 7 July 1960 by Smt. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit. Embarked for the first time on INS Vikrant in 1961, Sea Hawks stayed on till 1978. During the 1971 Indo-Pak War, “White Tigers” wreaked havoc on Pakistani installations at Cox’s Bazaar and Chittagong.
