Avani Chaturvedi, along with Mohana Jitarwal and Bhavana Kanth, became India’s first ever fighter pilots on June 18, 2016.
Chaturvedi scripted history when she became the first Indian woman fighter pilot to fly a MiG-21 Bison solo for 30 minutes from Gujarat’s Jamnagar air base, in 2018.
Chaturvedi was born on October 27, 1993 in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh to Dinkar Chaturvedi, an engineer and Savita Chaturvedi, a homemaker. She did her schooling from Deolond and earned her BTech from Banasthali University, Rajasthan. She became interested in flying after joining the flying club at her college. She completed her training from the Indian Air Force Academy, Dundigal. Chaturvedi plays chess and sketches in her free time.
In 2018, she was awarded a doctorate from Banasthali Vidyapeeth. Chaturvedi was awarded the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ by President Ram Nath Kovind on March 9, 2020.
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