Aero India 2025 - Flypast

[Ian French]

Kicking this off - Monday 10th Feb. The opening flypast on the huge base of Yelahanka consisted of many waves of aircraft from a multitude of directions, thus making identification a bit of a challenge!

An32RE doing para drop - KA----

Wave 1

Mi 17-1V 112HU ZM2877 ZM2888 ZM3015

Wave 2

Tejas LCA LA5018 LA5021 LA5034

Wave 3

LUH IA5102 gn c/s XH0832 bl c/s XH0834 gy c/s

Wave 4

Do228 CG751 CG759 CG785

Wave 5

An32B KA2737
Do228 HM674 KD717

Wave 6

P-8I INAS 312 IN325
MiG-29KUB INAS 303 IN675 IN678
Hawk Mk132 INAS551 IN041 IN043

Wave 7

C-130J-30 77Sq KC3810
Casa 295MW 11Sq CA7103 CA7106

Wave 8

Jaguar T JT068 l/n 224Sq
Jaguar S JS149 JS190? l/n 16Sq JS222 l/n 14Sq JS225 l/n 14Sq

Wave 9

ERJ145SM DRDO KM3555
Su-30MKI-3 SB239 SB325

Wave 10

Rafale
S-30MK x 2

Wave 11

Su-30MKI x3

I may have a wave or two in the wrong order!

Recoveries to Yelahanka which would have been in the flypast were:
Su-30MKI SB059 l/n 15W

[HansW]

Hi Ian,

Jaquar JS190 confirmed from my photo's !

Rgds, Hans

[Ian French]

Thanks Hans

[BasS]

Hi Ian,

Wave 5

An32B KA2737
Do228 HM674 KD717

According to my photo's the first Dornier is KD-674

Cheers,

Bas

[K2G]

The paradrop An-32 was also KA2737

The LCA Tejas were read from photo’s?


Hans

[Ian French]

Hi Hans
There were 3 Tejas in the flypast and three recovered to Yelahanka immediately after. All photographed.

[Ian French]

Agreed. KD674

[K2G]

Hi Hans
There were 3 Tejas in the flypast and three recovered to Yelahanka immediately after. All photographed.

Ian,

But in the morning before flypast we hear around 6/7 (?) fighter aircraft departed.

LCA 5018,5034 came in after flypast
LCA 5021 came in after solo display
LCA 5202, 5023, 5028 came in in the afternoon, probably landed somewhere else first.
Su-30 059 came in after solo display

Highly probably some of the above aircraft were in the flypast (but not confirmed yet by photograph).

Also in the program there were two formations of LCA

Formation 3 "TEJAS": 3x LCA VIC formation From 12'o clock right ahead at 700 ft
Formation 7 "YODHA": 4x LCA Diamond formation from Right at 700 ft

Where there actually two formations of LCA ??

Hans (the other one )

[Ian French]

Thanks Hans.
It was a bit chaotic and I thought I photographed everything. I do not have a pic of a four ship Tejas group.

[K2G]

Thanks Hans.
It was a bit chaotic and I thought I photographed everything. I do not have a pic of a four ship Tejas group.

I think there wasn't

[HansW]

Hi gents,

I have a photo of a 3-ship at 09:31 coming from left to right (just after the M-i8s with flags has passed, so wave 2) and a photo of a 3-ship at 09:35:12 (straight into the sun), just after wave 5, about 25 seconds before wave 6 came from the right.

I also have a picture of 1 Tejas quite close to us, at 09:35:40 so 28 seconds after the 3 ship. This one seems to be the 5034 (difficult to read)

So it looks like there was one flight of 3, and another (intended) flight of 4 which ended up to become a flight of 3 and one single a/c following 28 seconds behind.

Rgds, Hans vd W.

[Ian French]

Thanks Hans.
As said in my original log above I thought I had the waves out of order and this was because I thought I missed one.

[Ian French]

Hans from you pics of the flypast were there any Tejas LCA-Ts?

The first three ship was all single seats.

Cheers
Ian.

[EvD]

The first group was 3, we saw it from the eastern threshold, they appeared to fly south of the airfield.
The second group was 4, but one of them broke off/banked away at the eastern threshold before crossing the airfield! The leader of this group was a dual.

[EvD]

And btw, should you have a good shot of their belly, the last two of the serials are on the main gear covers.