Lt. Shubhangi Swaroop (born 17 January 1995) in

Tilhar Tilhar is a city and very old tehsil of Uttar Pradesh, and municipal board of the Shahjahanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is also a constituency of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. As the city was also known to supply bows ...

Uttar Pradesh is the first female pilot of the

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. She is a pilot of Maritime reconnaissance aircraft in

Career

Lt. Shubhangi has been part of the first batch of female officers to graduate from the Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kannur in 2017. She holds degree in

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Engineering from

Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private research deemed university located in Katpadi in Vellore, India. Founded in 1984 as ''Vellore Engineering College'' by G. Viswanathan, the institution offers 66 Undergraduate, 58 Postgraduate, ...

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and took training from

Air Force Academy (India) Indian Air Force Academy, Dundigal is a Defence Service training institute located in Medchal-Malkajgiri district from Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana. The academy was set up to train cadets from Indian Airforce Service cadre o ...

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. She is also a national

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...

champion. She is one amongst the Indian Navy's first batch of three women pilots for Maritime Reconnaissance (MR) missions on Dornier aircraft. She hails from

, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her father Cdr. Gyan Swaroop is a naval officer and her mother Mrs.Kalpana Swaroop is a teacher at Navy Children School, Karwar.

References

Living people Indian Navy officers 1971 births Vellore Institute of Technology alumni Indian naval aviators Indian female taekwondo practitioners {{India-mil-bio-stub