No. 44 Squadron, IAF

The No. 44 Squadron (Mighty Jets) which is presently based at Nagpur was initially raised at Chandigarh in the year 1961 with AN-12 turboprop aircraft and is now operating the IL-76 aircraft.

No. 44 Squadron flown relief missions to Sri Lanka and Indonesia during tsunami disaster, rescuing men and to avalanche victims in Kashmir as well SOS missions to quake-affected Iran.