The Farewell TEJAS Flight: Why Air Chief Marshal A P Singh Chose India’s Home-Grown Fighter, And The MK-1A He Never Got To Fly

As Air Chief Marshal A P Singh approaches the end of his tenure as Chief of the Air Staff, one final image is likely to define the closing chapter of his flying career. At Jodhpur Air Force Station, during the multinational Exercise Tarang Shakti, the Indian Air Force chief climbed into the cockpit of the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft TEJAS and flew the final fighter sortie of his
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- India
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- Railways & travel, Defence & security
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- Rajasthan
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- indian defence news
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- Wednesday, 14 October 2026, 10:26 am IST
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