GUWAHATI: A father-son officer duo has achieved a rare feat in the Indian Air Force – flying a helicopter together.

HT PHOTOAir Vice-Marshal Manvendra Singh (right) and his son Flight Lieutenant Siddharth Singh after the flight.

Air Vice-Marshal Manavendra Singh and son Flight Lieutenant Siddharth Singh flew an Mi-17 V5 together during an air fest at the advanced landing ground near Meghalaya’s capital, Shillong, on Saturday.

“This is possibly not the first time that a father-son duo has flown an IAF aircraft together, but such cases are rare,” defence spokesperson, Group Captain Amit Mahajan told HT from Shillong. Manavendra Singh, the senior officer in-charge of administration at the Upper Shillong-headquartered Eastern Air Command, has 6,700 hours of flying to his credit. Siddharth Singh was commissioned in 2011 in the helicopter stream.