SLAF Athletes Corporal Manjula Kumara and Airwoman Chandrika Rasnayake made their mark on the 36th National Sports Festival by becoming the best athletes in the men’s and women’s categories respectively.Corporal Manjula Kumara was named as the best athlete in the field events for his record breaking performance in the men’s high jump event. The Asian Championships gold medalist sha...

Sri Lanka Air Force Station Palavi celebrated its 03rd Formation Day on 01st  November 2010.Established by the RAF and Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy during  World War II, the airfield at Palavi is situated close to the city of Puttalam in the Western Province .The present SLAF Station was established in 2000 to reactivate the airfield and establishment of No 05 Air Defence Ra...

The General Convocation of the 24th intake of Officers of The General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU)  were awarded degrees at the convocation held at BMICH on 28th October 2010. H.E. President Mahinda Rajapakse  the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces was the Chief Guest while  the Chancellor of the Kotalawala Defence University Lt.Gen Dennis Perera was al...

The Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Air Force Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetileke was accorded a Guard of Honour during the first stage of the Annual Commander’s Inspection of Sri Lanka Air Force Station, Colombo today, 28th October 2010. The Guard of Honour was commanded by Flight Lieutenant K.A Kumara.Sri Lanka Air Force Colombo provides administrative and logistical sup...

Sri Lanka Air Force Base Vavuniya celebrated its 32nd Formation Day on 27th October 2010.The Formation Day celebrations began with a Working Parade held at the Base premises today 27th Oct 10. The parade was inspected by Base Commander SLAF Base Vavuniya, Air Commodore Rohintha Fernando.In addition, the Base personnel at Vavuniya  engaged in cleaning the public cemetery at Vavuniya ...

Sri Lanka Air Force Badminton Champion Niluka Karunaratne who is the No. 1 ranked player in Sri Lanka, did a clean sweep of the titles at the North Central Province Open Championships held in Anuradhapura from the 21-23 of October 2010. This tournament was authorized by the Sri Lanka Badminton Association as a Ranking tournament. Niluka Karunaratne has proven his dominance in the B...

An eventful day of community service and recreation marked the celebration of the 26th anniversary of Sri Lanka Air Force Unit Koggala on 19 October 2010.A parade held at the camp premises kicked off the anniversary celebrations last Tuesday under the inspection of Commanding Officer SLAF Unit Koggala, Wing Commander Channa Dissanayake. This was followed by a spirited cricket match which...

A competition in line with the World Standards Day was organized by the Command Quality Assurance Inspectorate (CQAI), organized a competition on 13th October 2010 to existing Quality Circles in the Sri Lanka Air Force.All Quality Circles (QC) who had completed their respective proceedings during the period of January – June 2010 were eligible to contest the forum. The event which was ...

Corporal Hewagamage TND and Leading Air Craftswoman Ranasinghe KHN of Sri Lanka Air Force rewrote history by becoming the first women in South Asia to successfully complete Night Skydiving on 19 October 2010.The two parachutists displayed their skills in on Tuesday night at SLAF Station Amapara. Both women completed the dives as part of the 5th Basic Sky Diving Course. This batch consist...

Corporal Pubudu Ekanayaka and Corporal Asanka Pradeep of Sri Lanka Air Force won the Bronze Medal at the Xianning Open Asian Beach Volleyball Championships held last week from 14 to 17 October in China.Organized by the Asian Beach Volleyball Confederation, the tournament saw the participation of almost all beach volleyball playing nations from the continent vying for the top spot.F...

Sri Lanka Air Force Under 25 Men’s teams defeated Navy 3 sets to 1 emerging champions in the Rupavahini Trophy All Island Volley Ball Tournament finals on 17 October 2010 at National Youth Services Council Courts, Maharagama. Top 80 teams from all parts of the island took part in the tournament which saw the teams from SLAF, Army, Navy and National Youth Services being selected fo...

The word ‘cadet’ is in the minds of many Sri Lankans, synonymous with school boys and girls who aspire to join the forces. Traditionally, the perception was to consider all cadets as under one training programme. A little known fact however, is that since three years ago, the National Cadet Corps placed a significant step towards the future in recognizing the need for specialized tra...

Sri Lanka Armed Forces team bagged seven Bronze medals,being placed in seven out of the ten events participated at the 53rd World Military Boxing Championship 2010.The team which consisted of Air Force, Army and Navy competed at the Championship which was held from 08 to 17 October 2010 at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, USA.From the 10 boxers who competed in the tou...

A delegation of National Cadet Corps (NCC) from SAARC countries visited Air Force Head Quarters during their annual visit to Sri Lanka on Monday, 18 October 2010. The delegation headed by Chief Advisor of Nepal NCC, Brigadier General Yem Bahdur Thapa consisted of 28 members from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.     Chief  of Staff of Sri Lanka Air Force Air Vice...

Sri Lanka Air Force Station Diyatalawa celebrated its 58th Formation Day on 15th October 2010.Following the formal events held to mark the occasion, several environmental friendly cleaning programs were organized by the Station. The Formation Day celebrations began with a Working Parade held on the morning of 15 October under the review of the Commanding Officer, Group Captain PLJ Kodipp...

Celebrating the beauty of literature and communication, Sri Lanka Air Force held its English Language Day 2010 at SLAF Station Ekala on 13th October 2010.  The English Language Day is yet another means whose main aim is to enhance the knowledge of English language amongst SLAF personnel and to motivate them to appreciate its many uses. In the 21st century English plays a v...

Sri Lanka Air Force Base Katunayaka Tech Formation (men) and SLAF Colombo (women) emerged champions in the Inter Unit Basket ball championship 2010.The Tournament held from 06th to 12th October 2010 at the SLAF Ekala.In the mens event, Tech Formation  defeated  SLAF Colombo  (69 – 59 points) whilst Colombo women defeated the BIA  (25 – 21 points) to become  c...

Sri Lanka Air Force Hockey team clinched the Dialog- Wijaya All Island 09 A side Hockey Championship 0n 09th October 2010 at the Nandimithra Ekanayaka International Hockey ground at Matale.  22 leading teams around the island took part in the tournament. In the semi finals SLAF defeated the army team whilst Navy defeated the Police team to enter the finals.During the final enco...

The Chief of Defence Staff and the Commander of the Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetileke conducted the annual Air Force Commander’s Inspection at SLAF Bandaranaike International Airport unit on 08th October 2010.  The Commander was received and welcomed by the Commanding Officer Group Captain Peterson Fernando into the camp premises through a street lining of airmen. Th...

The Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Air Force Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetileke conducted the Annual Commanders Inspection of SLAF Base Katunayaka on 07th and 08th October 2010.A parade commanded by Base Commander, SLAF Base Katunayaka, Air Commodore Ranil Gurusinghe welcomed the Commander to the Base premises. The inspection of this Base is conducted over a period of two ...

Sri Lanka Air Force grounds troops based at Trikonamadu area recovered a haul of concealed suicide jackets, weapons, ammunition and explosive from Thoppigala.Recoveries are as follows                                               ...