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Meghana Shanbough becomes IAF’s first women fighter pilot from South India

Flying Officer Meghana Shanbough joins as the fighter pilot in Indian Airforce. Flying officer Meghana Shanbhag, who is hailing from Chikmaglur in Mysore of Karnataka, was among the 13 women officers out of 113 Flight Cadets , who earned their coveted wings on successful completion of their flying training from the Air Force Academy located at Dundigal here.

Meghana, the first fighter pilot from South India, will be the sixth women fighter pilot who got her wings on Saturday was born in Chikkamagaluru in a family of lawyers. Father M K Ramesh is a practising lawyer & Mother presently serving as judge in the District Consumer Forum, Udupi.