Miscellaneous Pakistani Military Aircraft

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I think these are the first pic of newly acquired Puma helicopters. These helicopters are fitted with advanced and more powerful Makila engines which are also used on Super Puma series. These also have improved avionics, glass cockpit and digital four axes autopilot. Externally it has a wire mesh intake barriers, wire cutters and few are fitted with sponson fuel tanks for extended range. IMO the most beautiful helicopter.

[Adnan Anwar]

I think these are the first pic of newly acquired Puma helicopters. These helicopters are fitted with advanced and more powerful Makila engines which are also used on Super Puma series. These also have improved avionics, glass cockpit and digital four axes autopilot. Externally it has a wire mesh intake barriers, wire cutters and few are fitted with sponson fuel tanks for extended range. IMO the most beautiful helicopter.

I don't remember Pakistan Army buying any more PUMA's from anyone. PUMA have been out of production since 1990's as far as I know unless Pakistan got some retired PUMA's from some other nation.

[Abbas Ali]

On the web, there are reports of used Super Puma or Puma helicopters of Abu Dhabi, UAE, (14 helicopters ?) transferred to Pakistan in recent times.

Abbas

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OMG Abbas knows everything

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paf trident

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paf sa-16

[Abbas Ali]

^ Now that's a very RARE colour photo of PAF Grumman SA-16A Albatross especially when we consider the fact that Albatross aircraft served PAF for only 10 years from 1958 to 1968.

There's black & white version of exactly same photo in book 'Battle for Pakistan - The Air War of 1965' authored by John Fricker

Btw, is that Albatross serial# 17225 ? and any idea where that photo was taken ?

PAF Albatross were based at PAF Base, Drigh Road, Karachi, currently known as PAF Base Faisal.

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[Abbas Ali]

Just would like to confirm that Albatross in colour photo and its b&w version is serial# 17225.

Couple of air-to-air photos of serial# 17225 can also be seen in book 'Battle for Pakistan - The Air War for Pakistan' where the aircraft is seen flying over sea under the command of Squadron Leader Afsar Khan Jadoon and the aircraft is without camouflage colour scheme in those photos.

Four Grumman SA-16A Albatross aircraft were part of PAF No. 4 Squadron for search and rescue mission. The four Albatross aircraft delivered to Pakistan Air Force in 1958 were:

Serial# 17220 (construction number G-298) - ex USAF serial# 7220
Serial# 17221 (construction number G-300) - ex USAF serial# 7221
Serial# 17222 (construction number G-301) - ex USAF serial# 7222
Serial# 17225 (construction number G-306) - ex USAF serial# 7225

PAF Albatross aircraft also flew maritime recce missions in 1965 war.

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some a/c in camo and some in grey colour.

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The Beech Baron is a light, twin-engines piston aircraft originally developed by Beech Aircraft Corporation and currently manufactured by the Hawker Beech craft Corporation; it is a light Communication aircraft. It was manufactured in 1969 and induct in the PAF in 1980.BARON is powered by two piston engines with a thrust of 2 x 285 hp. it can fly at a maximum speed of 242 mph and can climb to a height of 17,800 feet. It has a capacity of 6 people and the crew, consisting of one or two pilots. The PAF BARON was phased out in 2007.

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The Beech Baron is...... is powered by two piston engines with a thrust of 2 x 285 hp.

Nd thanks ofr nice picture of a veteran. Just to make a technical correction, Thrust and horsepower are not used together. Infact the most appropriate unit for an engine output is Shaft Horse Power (shp). It is a mechanical measure of the output power at the crankshaft. For jet engines since most of the propelling force is achieved through hi-pressure gases exiting the nozzle, the term 'thrust' in pounds on Newtons is used as there are no means to measure the mechanical power of a jet engine.