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Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi became the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo. Avani Chaturvedi achieved this feat by flying a MiG-21 "Bison". She took off the MiG-21 "Bison" from the Jamnagar base of Indian Air Force (IAF). Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh were commissioned as flying officers into the fighter stream after finishing basic training in June 2016, on experimental basis for 5 years initially.