No. 2 Squadron IAF

No. 2 Squadron

Active	1 April 1941 - 15 December 1947 15 July 1951 - 2003 March 2009 - Present
Country	Republic of India
Branch	Indian Air Force
Type	Su-30MKI
Role	Air superiority
Garrison/HQ	Tezpur AFS
Nickname(s)	"Winged Arrows"
Motto(s)	Amogh Lakshya True To Aim
Insignia
Identification symbol	Winged Arrow
Aircraft flown
Fighter	Sukhoi Su-30MKI

Military unit

No.2 Squadron (Winged Arrows) is a unit dedicated to CAS in the Indian Air Force. No. 2 Sqn falls under the Eastern Air Command.^[1]

History


Aircraft	From	To	Air Base
Pre-Independence (1941–47)
Westland Wapiti IIA	1 April 1941	December 1941	Kohat^[2]^[3]
Hawker Audax	July 1941	January 1942	Peshawar
Westland Lysander	December 1941	October 1942	South India
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB	October 1941	December 1944	Ranchi
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC	January 1945	March 1946
Harvard IIB	October 1945	September 1947	Samungli
Spitfire VIII	February 1946	January 1947	Samungli
Post-Independence (1951–Present)
Spitfire VIII	August 1951	November 1953	AFS Palam
Harvard IIB	August 1951	November 1953
Vampire FB52	November 1953	June 1956
Dassault Ouragan	June 1956	May 1962
Folland Gnat I	May 1962	March 1983
HAL Ajeet	December 1983	April 1991
MiG-27	July 1991	October 2003
Su-30 MKI	July 2009	Present	AFS Tezpur

^ Dutch Aviation Society. OrBat of the Indian Air Force Archived 22 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ "No.2 Squadron Winged Daggers". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
^ Pillarisetti, Jagan (14 June 2017). "No.2 Squadron". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 21 June 2021.

Leadership

Components
& commands

Air Force commands

Operational	Central Air Command Eastern Air Command Southern Air Command South Western Air Command Western Air Command
Functional	Training Command Maintenance Command
Joint	Andaman and Nicobar Command Strategic Forces Command Defence Cyber Agency Defence Space Agency Armed Forces Special Operations Division

Western Air Command	Adampur Ambala Amritsar Awantipora Bathinda Chandigarh Faridabad Gurugram Halwara Hindan Leh Palam Pathankot Sarsawa Siachen Glacier Sirsa Srinagar Udhampur
Eastern Air Command	Agartala Bagdogra Barapani AFS Barrackpore Chabua Dum Dum Hasimara Jorhat Kalaikunda Kumbhigram Mohanbari Mountain Shadow Tawang Tezpur Panagarh
Central Air Command	Agra Bihta Darbhanga Bakshi Ka Talab Bamrauli Bareilly Chakeri Gorakhpur Maharajpur
Southern Air Command	Car Nicobar Coimbatore Madurai Port Blair Tambaram Thanjavur
South Western Air Command	Bhuj Jaisalmer Jamnagar Jodhpur Lohegaon Nal-Bikaner Naliya Phalodi Uttarlai Makarpura
Training Command	Begumpet Bidar Dundigal Hakimpet Yelahanka Belgaum
Maintenance Command	Nagpur Ojhar
Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs)	Along Chinyalisaur Chushul Daulat Beg Oldi Fukche Hayuliang Mechuka Nyoma Pasighat Airport Tawang Thoise Tuting Vijaynagar Walong Ziro

Combat

Transport

Helicopters

Acrobatic display

Communication

EW/AWS

RPA

Number plated

Aircraft

Military
academies

Education & training	Sainik School Armed Forces Medical College Ajmer Military School Bangalore Military School Belgaum Military School Chail Military School Dholpur Military School Rashtriya Indian Military College
Schools & colleges	Air Force Academy Air Force Administrative College Air Force School, Coimbatore Air Force School, Jodhpur Flying Instructors School Indian Air Force Test Pilot School Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment Air Defence College College of Air Warfare
Tri-service institutions	Defence Services Staff College National Defence Academy National Defence College College of Defence Management Military Institute of Technology