Air Force Technical College - AFTC

About Air Force Technical College - AFTC

Air Force Technical College – AFTC was established on 04 Jul 49 with Gp Capt J Beaumont, DFC as the first Commandant. The College, then named as Technical Training College was established at Bangalore with the assistance of Air Service Training Ltd, Hamble (UK). For a few years in the beginning, the Commandant and other Directing Staff were from the Royal Air Force (RAF). The college was completely taken over by the Indian Air Force and the name of the institute was changed to Air Force Technical College on 06 Jul 56 with Group Captain NJ Kriplani MBE assuming charge as first Indian Commandant of the college.

The college ever since its inception had the unique distinction of being the only one of its type to train personnel in Military Aviation technology and associated fields. The College not only imparts technical training but also imparts military ethos and inculcates military leadership to fresh graduate engineers. The college has contributed significantly towards aviation technical training not only within the three services but also other organizations in the public and private sectors. The College till date has trained 13,890 officers of the IAF and the Sister Services, including Scientists from DRDO, international students and officers from HAL. This also includes 102 Army officers, 111 Naval officers and more than 419 Women officers. The College also trains International Officers from friendly foreign countries. To keep abreast with the latest technologies, the College endeavors to continuously train engineering officers at different seniority through the in-service courses. AFTC holds the distinction of being the first ISO-9001:2000 certified training institution in the IAF and the same has been upgraded to ISO 9001-2008.

Air Force Technical College was set up as Technical Training College with the assistance of Air Services Training, Hamble, UK. AFTC has trained over 7990 officers of IAF (including 163 women officers), 102 officers of Indian Army, 111 officers of Indian Navy and 276 officers of 19 friendly foreign countries. Engineers and scientists from premier institutions and public sector industries like HAL, DRDO and Indian Airlines have had their initiation in aerospace technology at this institute.