Basic Flying Training School (BFTS) is an Indian
flight training institute located at the
Air Force Station Bamrauli in
Prayagraj
Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...
for training cadets of the
Army Aviation Corps. Established on 16 December 1987, it was originally setup for training flight cadets of the
Indian Air Force on
HAL HPT-32 Deepak aircraft. On 5 July 1999, the school changed its role from training IAF cadets to training cadets of the
Indian Army
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, the
Indian Naval Air Arm
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, and the
Indian Coast Guard
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. On 26 December 2005, the school re-equipped with
HAL Chetak
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Aviation
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* Hawaiian Airlines (ICAO airline code: HAL)
* HAL Airport, Bangalore, India
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helicopters for training Indian Army officers. At BFTS, Indian Army cadets undergo ab-initio flying and ground training that lasts five months.
Basic Flying Training School
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References
Indian Air Force
Aviation schools in India
1987 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
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