Vintage Glory! Restored IAF T-6 Harvard Heads Home

The Indian Air Force’s restored vintage North American T-6G Harvard trainer is on its way back home! Bundled into an IAF C-17, the aircraft arrives in India on July 28 and will be shown off to the public for the first time at the Air Force Day celebration on October 8. The IAF C-17 is already at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to embark the aircraft, the second vintage IAF plane restored by Flt Lt Mike Edwards, after the de Havilland Tiger Moth that performed at 2012’s AF Day celebration.
The Harvard remained in Indian service across independence, from 1942 till 1975. 
Photos: Flt Lt Mike Edwards / via Air Chief Marshal FH Major

15 thoughts on “Vintage Glory! Restored IAF T-6 Harvard Heads Home”

  1. IAF it seems is like the present day maharajas and nawabs…do not have money for day to day expenses.Still.."shauk wohi raeesonwale"

  2. you are putting c17 to the great use after all..even vintage restoration needs foreign help..this is stretching the limits a bit.

  3. Vintage Glory ! Last week iaf crash Dhruv heli, this weak jaguar fighter jet and what about next weak hmm, maybe they crash state of art c 17. Because iaf vintage Air Force not modren Air Force .

  4. To maintain documents and artifacts of the past is a good practice it gives sense of pride to the future and great wars require pride as one of the essential components of the formula to win it.

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