The First Deputy Chief of Defence, General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Admiral Igor Kabanenko paid a courtesy call on the Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force, Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama, at the Air Force Headquarters this afternoon (21 December) along with a delegation. The Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Ukraine, His Excellency Mr. Udayanga Weeratunga too atten...

The 86th Men's and Women's Senior National Boxing Championships organized by the Amateur Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (ABASL) was held at Pallekele MAS Lineage Gymnasium and the finals was held at Kandy City Centre from 14 Dec to 18 Dec 12.The winners of the tournament in the varying weights categories will qualify for the final trials of the SAF Games to be held in March 2013 in New ...

The Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, General Bikram Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC, paid a courtesy call on the Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force, Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama, at the Air Force Headquarters this morning (20 December).Upon arrival at the Air Force Headquarters, the Indian Army Chief was accorded a Guard of Honour. Thereafter, he was received by the Com...

‘Yuletide Fantasy’ the Christmas Carols Programme of the Air Force organized by the SLAF Seva Vanitha Unit, was held at the Defence Services School Auditorium on 19th December 2012.The Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama graced the event as the Chief Guest. The Chairperson of SLAF Seva Vanitha Unit, Mrs. Neelika Abeywickrama, the members of the Air Force Board ...

SLAF Base Anuradhapura (Men’s) and SLAF TTS Ekala (Women’s) won the Inter Unit Kabaddi Championship which was concluded last evening (19th December, 2012) at the SLAF Base Katunayake Sports Complex.LAC Pushpakumara WM was nominated as the "Best Player" in the men’s category. The Vice President of the World Kabaddi Federation Mr MT Fernando graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Gr...

The Commissioning of No. 60B Direct Entry Student Officers and the Passing Out Parade of No.55 Intake Officer Cadets, No.07 Intake Lady Officer Cadets Basic Ground Combat, No.30 KDU Intensive Combat Training, No.152 Regular Airmen Recruit and No.24 Airwomen Courses was held at Sri Lanka Air Force Station Diyatalawa on 18 December 2012.The Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Air Force, Air Vi...

The SLAF  won the 28th Youth Rupavahini Volleyball Tournament women's title last evening at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium Colombo. 8  teams took part at this year tournament and in the Cup final SLAF beat MAS Casualine Club  25-20, 25-18 and 25-14. Airwoman Umayangani FIR was best attacker and best player of the tournament whilst AC Thuhari and AC Ranasingha RMABCG the be...

Champion cyclist of the Sri Lanka Air Force Jeewan Jayasinghe won the first ever night cycle race held at the Colombo Night Races on 15th December 2012.  40 leading cyclists of  Sri Lanka  took part in this event and cyclist from Police and SL Navy won the 2nd and 3rd places respectively. ...

Sri Lanka Air Force  emerged men's champs whilst the women became runner up at the Inter Club Open Ranking Table Tennis Tournament 2012 which was held at the Jagath Rajapakse International Table Tennis Stadium,Kandy on 15th December 2012.  Nine men’s teams and eight women’s teams took part at the tournament. ...

The SLAF Station Morawewa won the Men's Championship and 26 Regiment Wing SLAF Base Katunayake won the Women's title at the Inter Unit Rifle meet which was held at SLAF Station Ampara from 12th to 14th December 2012.Corporal Wijesooriya DMC was overall winner of the meet. Deputy Director Operations Air Commodore MLK Perera graced the occasion as the Chief Guest for the presentation cerem...

The 26 Regiment Wing of SLAF Base Katunayake (Men’s) and  SLAF TTS  Ekala (Women’s) won the Inter Unit Wrestling Championship which was concluded last evening (14th December, 2012) at the SLAF Base Katunayake Sports Complex.LAC Abeysekara WGSNB and LAC Wimalasena MH were nominated as the "Best Wrestler “in the men’s and women’s categories respectively.  The Presi...

The passing out ceremony of the No. 52nd Non Commissioned Officers’ Management Course was held at the Combat Training School auditorium of the Sri Lanka Air Force Academy China Bay on 10th December 2012. Air Vice Marshal CR Gurusinghe, Director Civil Engineering, of the Sri Lanka Air Force graced the ceremony as the Chief Guest.Air Commodore SK Pathirana the Commandant of the Sri Lanka...

A community project was conducted at Ampara on 10th November 2012 with a view to assist children of Nugalanda Vidyalaya. This was organized by the SLÄF Seva Vanitha Unit in association with SLAF Ampara. A total number of 136 children were presented with a pack of school appliances at this occasion.The Directorate of Health Services of the SLAF conducted a medical clinic for the people o...

A delegation from the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Sri Lanka Air Force met at SLAF Headquarters for the 4th IAF-SLAF Air Staff talks on 10th December 2012 and the talks will continue till 12th December.The Indian Delegation consisted of 5 officers and was headed by the Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operation, Air Vice Marshal Upkarjit Singh and SLAF team consisted of 6 officers and was ...

The AF Museum Rathmalana started its second session of the series of workshops on “Aviation Fundamentals for Beginners” on Monday 10th December at AF Museum Auditorium. The three days workshop will be conducted during the school holidays in December and four such workshops are scheduled to commence. The first session was successfully completed with 220 students joining the “Young A...

SLAF men and women emerged runner up in the Western Province Inter Club Badminton Championship 2012 which was held from 07th to 9th December 2012 at the St. Thomas' College Indoor Stadium. In the men's final Tamil Union Badminton Club beat SLAF and in the women's' final Aponsu Badminton Club beat SLAF after a keenly contested game....

The SSC Squash Ranking Tournament 2012 was held recently at the SSC Squash Complex Colombo. The SLAF squash player Cpl Suwaris TAP won the Men’s Open and became 1st in the Sri Lankan Squash ranking. Lac Methsiri HWN secured the 5th  place in the Men’s Open whilst Cpl Kumara MDTW and F/Sgt Wijethunga PPK became runner up in Men’s Open Plate and in the over 35 category respectiv...

The two Sri Lanka Air Force wrestlers, who were part of the Sri Lankan wrestling team, bagged two Bronze medals at the International Wrestling Championship 2012 which was held at Pakistan from 06th to 09th December 2012.014498 Cpl Fernando RUM and 014502 Cpl Salgado MCS won Bronze Medals in 60Kg and 70Kg weight categories respectively....

The Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal HD Abeywickrama flew and landed a Y 12 aircraft at Iranamadu runway this evening. The Commander did the landing to test the surface of the runway which has been completed up to a distance of 1100 metres where the third layer of the runway surface has been laid. The runway will be extended up to 1500 metres and the total responsibility of its con...

The Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal HD Abeywickrama was part of the history making Burdett Trophy winning Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC) team. The Burdett Trophy is a prestigious event played between the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) and the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC) and this year’s event was the 108th encounter between these two great clubs. NEGC won this encounter after ne...

The Graduation Ceremony of the No. 40th Junior Commanders’ Course was held at the Junior Command and Staff College auditorium at SLAF Academy China Bay on 07 December 2012. The Director Logistics of the Sri Lanka Air Force Air Vice Marshal KVB Jayampathy graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.A total of 21 Officers from the Sri Lanka Air Force in the rank of Squadron Leader and Flight ...