No 110 B Volunteer Airmen and No 07 Volunteer Airwomen Initial Combat Training Courses were terminated and fall out from the prestigious SLAF Station Diyatalawa on 30 December 2011. The Commanding Officer Group Captain Janaka Amerasinghe RSP, BSc (Def Stu) in Mgt, MDS, psc was the Chief Guest of the event. Trainees have completed 2 1/2 month training programme which was covered Land Navi...

The First Working Parade of the No.07 Air Defence Radar Squadron established above 8282 Feet at Piduruthalagala was conducted on the 2nd January 2012.The Commanding Officer Squadron Leader DS Wickramarachchi reviewed the parade which was commanded by Squadron Leader SKHC Sooriyaarachchi. ...

The Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal HD Abeywickrama addressed a cross section of commissioned officers, other ranks and civilians this morning (02 January 2012) at Air Force Head Quarters premises.In his message the Commander commended the hard work put in by each and every person in the organization towards success in the previous year and emphasized the need to corporate furthe...

The 30th Anniversary Day celebrations of the Sri Lanka Air Force Station Palaly were held on 1st January 2012.A parade held at the newly constructed Parade Square kicked off the anniversary celebrations under the inspection of Commanding Officer Group Captain Athula Kaluarachchi. This was followed by a multi-religious ceremony to invoke blessings upon the Station, its Officers, Airmen an...

The Equipment Provisioning and Accounting Unit at SLAF Base, Katunayake celebrated its first anniversary on 1st January 2012 with a religious ceremony. The celebrations began day prior to the anniversary on 31 December 2011 with a Shramadana campaign conducted for the Prasanna Lama Niwasaya at Demanhandiya, Katana. In addition to the Shramadana, lunch was given to the children and staff ...

116 Gunners who successfully completed the 23rd Gunner Advanced Course  (TE-II) had their passing out ceremony at SLAF Station Palaly on 30th December 2011.They completed 16 weeks of extensive training where they focused on Drill, Weapon Training, Land Navigation, Live Firing Exercises, Jungle Exercises, Survival and Guerilla Warfare. The course was structured to also develop their ...

The SLAF Academy Hospital, a lodger formation since 14 Mar 2011, is in the process of development while providing preventive and curative care for all serving personnel and their families of the SLAF Academy China bay. Adding a spiritual aura, it was decided, a month go, to let the patients and medical staff feel the breeze of Lord Buddha’s teachings especially with a view to release t...

In view of Christmas Festival, this station conducted an Alms Giving Ceremony at "Sarana" Lama Niwasaya Uhana on 25th December 2011.A concert, consisted  with dancing and singing was  conducted by the children of the Lama Niwasaya to entertain the Air Force and civil gathering.Officers and Airmen of the station were also took part in the concert by providing music and singing f...

The children’s party and the families’ get-together of SLAF Unit Katukurunda for year 2011 was held on 22nd December 2011. The children’s party was conducted from 1400 hrs to 1800 hrs with numerous kids’ entertainment items. See-saws, Slide Saw, Electric Cars, and Bouncers were full of children throughout the event. A Green duck, Mini mouse and Santa Clouse spent the entire ...

The Children's party of Sri Lanka Air Force Station Colombo was held on 27th Dec 2011 for which a gathering of approximately 1500 personnel consisting of Air Force Personnel serving at SLAF Station Colombo with their families and the civilian staff serving along with their family members participated. The Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Air Force Seva Vanitha Unit, Mrs. Neelika Abeywickrema...

The children’s party and annual get together of SLAF Unit Koggala was held on 23 Dec 2011 under the patronage of Commanding Officer Wg Cdr MHC Rupasinghe. The function commenced at 1500 Hrs and a large crowd gathered for the function. So many entertainment events were held for the children like bouncer, dog show, magic show and numbers of competitions were held.The annual get together ...

The children’s party and the Base get-together of SLAF Base Ratmalana  for year 2011 were held on 21st  December 2011 under the patronage of Base Commander, SLAF Base Ratmalana, Air Commodore DLS Dias.The event was graced by the Base Commander, Air Commodore DLS Dias and the ceremony commenced with the lighting of traditional oil lamp by the Chief Guest. The children’s part...

The Children’s party and annual get-together of SLAF station wirawila for year 2011 was held on 24th December 2011 under the patronage of Commanding Officer SLAF Station Wirawila, Group Captain MDJ Wasage. The children’s party was conducted from 1430 hrs with numerous kids’ entertainment items. Several organized games were conducted for children while dancing, Musical chair and fan...

The  children’s party and annual get together of SLAF TTS was held on 23rd December 11 under the patronage of Commanding Officer LD Gunewardena. The event commenced with the children’s party at 1430 hrs with lot of entertainment programmes  for children and the annual get together commenced at 1900 with the participation of many well-known artists and entertainers. All fami...

Sri Lanka Air Force Seva Vanitha Unit upon the direction of it’s Chairperson Mrs. Neelika Abeywickrama, organized an entertainment programme celebrating Christmas, for the inmates of ward No. 03 at the Mulleriyawa Hospital recently (23 December 2011).  The afternoon consisted  lunch, the distribution of valuable gifts among the patients and staff whilst the SLAF band’s perf...

SLAF fire fighters emerged Champions in the Inter Fire services Athletic meet 2011 held on  21st December 2011 at Campbell grounds  Colombo.14 Fire Services operators in the country participated in this annual event which was organized by the Sri Lankan branch of the Institute of Fire Engineers of the United Kingdom.President of the Institute of Fire Engineers (Sri Lanka Branch...

36 Officer Cadets of the 29th Officer Cadets’ Course of the Kothlawala Defence University successfully completed the Intensive Training Course and passed out from the prestigious SLAF Station Diyatalawa on 20 December 2011. The Commanding Officer Group Captain Janaka Amerasinghe RSP, BSc (Def Stu) in Mgt, MDS, psc was the Chief Guest of the event. Officer Cadets have completed a 3 mont...

A ceremony to award UN Medals to Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving in United Nations Stabilization Mission in Republic of Haiti (MINUSTAH) was held at the Sri Lankan Battalion Head Quarters in Leogane, Haiti on 20th December 2011.The Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Mr. Nigel Fisher, Acting Force Commander, Major General Felicio De Los Santos, Defence attache o...

The families of Officers and Airmen of SLAF Station Palaly arrived on 15th and 16th December 2011 by Sri Lanka Air Force Aircraft and by bus in order to visit Jaffna Peninsula and to attend Annual Get-together and Children’s Party. The children party was held in the Hanger at SLAF Station Palay on 17th December 2011. Game competitions for children in each age group had been organized a...

The Annual Concert of the Air Force Pre School Vauniya followed by the Annual Children’s Party and the Get –together of SLAF Base Vavuniya was held on 16th Dec 2011 for which a gathering of approximately 1200 personnel consisting of Air Force Personnel serving at SLAF Base Vavuniya with their families and the civillian staff serving along with their family members participated.The fu...

The children’s party and the Base get-together of SLAF Base Katunayake for year 2011 were held on 17th December 2011 under the patronage of Base Commander, SLAF Base Katunayake, Air Commodore CR Gurusinghe.The children’s party was conducted from 1400 hrs to 1800 hrs with numerous kids’ entertainment items. Giant wheel, Merry-go-round, Kiddies train and the Bouncer were full of chil...