Sri Lanka Air Force Base Anuradhapura became the Inter Unit Athletic Champions of 2011 comfortably, scoring 239 points at SLAF Base Katunayaka. SLAF Station Colombo and SLAF Station Diyatalawa secured the 2nd and 3rd places respectively scoring 217 and 193 points.Officer Cadet Koswatta DMC of SLAF Station Diyatalawa and Corporal Dinesha AAD of SLAF Station Colombo won the best athlete’...

No. 6 Flight Kitchen and Culinary Training Course was conducted for SLAF Mess Stewards and Caterers from 01st November 2011 to 21st November 2011 for a period of 3 weeks at the Sri Lankan Catering Services. The course was organized by SLAF Unit BIA with the guidance of Air Force Headquarters. The closing ceremony was held under the patronage of Chief Executive officer Mr. Sarath Fernando...

The annual concert of the Preschool SLAF Base Ratmalana for 2011 was held on the 22nd of November 2011 at the SDS Jayasinghe Hall Dehiwala. The chairperson of the SLAF Seva Vanitha Unit, Mrs. Neelika Abeywikrama graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.Eighty enthusiastic children from the SLAF Ratmalana pre-school took the stage with confidence through a lineup of a variety of events whic...

The closing ceremony of 12th National archery championship was held on 19th and 20th November  2011 at the Kettarama Stadium in Colombo. The occasion was graced by  Mrs Ranjani Jayakodi (Director General - Ministry of sports and public recreation in Sri Lanka). The highlight of the championship was the performance of SLAF archers who were able to secure two Gold, one Silver and...

No 07 Helicopter squadron and No 09 Attack helicopter squadron commemorated their war heroes by holding several religious ceremonies at SLAF Base Hingurakgoda during the last week. In the war era both the flying squadrons lost several of their aircrew in action. Therefore multi religious ceremonies were organized to pay tribute to those valiant heroes who made the supreme sacrifice in li...

Sri Lanka Air Force won the 14th Annual Charles Robinson Memorial all Island Invitation Seven-A-Side Hockey Tournament for the 4th Consecutive time by beating Sri Lanka Navy by 3 goals to 2. The tournament was held on 20th November 2011 at Police Park Bambalapitiya....

The Observance of the World Quality Day is an annual public awareness campaign, promulgated by the United Nations in 1990 to raise international awareness of the important role ‘Quality’ plays in ensuring a nations' prosperity; now celebrated annually on the Second Thursday of November.The SLAF actively participated in this programme with the fullest co-operation of all Base Commande...

Fire fighters of Sri Lanka Air Force Base  Hingurakgoda extinguished a fire which erupted at a commercial building in the Hingurakgoda town at approximately 1530 hrs on 18 November 2011. This building was an multi-storied shopping complex which is situated in the heart of Hingurakgoda town. The fire initiated in a general warehouse which is situated on an upper floor of the bui...

The Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama conducted the Annual Commander’s inspection of the Sri Lanka Air Force Unit, Bandaranaike International Air Port, Katunayake on 18 November 2011. The Commander was welcomed by the Commanding officer SLAF unit BIA, Group Captain Peterson Fernando and a street lining was accorded at the Unit Headquarters. During the course of...

The Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama  conducted the Annual Commander’s Inspection at the Sri Lanka Air Force Base Katunayake yesterday (17th November 2011).The parade commanded by Base Commander, SLAF Base Katunayake, Air Commodore Ranil Gurusinghe welcomed the Commander to the Base premises. The Sri Lanka Air Force Base Katunayake, the largest Air Force ...

Sri Lanka Air Force Unit Katukurunda celebrated their 27th anniversary on the 16th November 2011.SLAF Katukurunda was established in 1943 as the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Katukurunda (HMS Ukussa) by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, under the Command of Capt G.A. (HANK) Rotherham. At the time it was the largest Royal Navy Air Station with a staff of 300 Officers, 3000 Sailors and...

The Sri Lanka Air Force Trade Training School Ekala (SLAF TTS Eka) conducted the grand finale of the ‘Annual Language Day’ competition on 15th November 2011 at the TTS auditorium.The concept of a Language Day ignited in 2004 with the English Language Day. However this year this concept was taken one step further by the present Commanding Officer Group Captain Laksiri Gunawardana who ...

Sri Lanka Air Force Base Anuradhapura celebrated 29 years as an establishment and 24 years as a Base on 9th November 2011.The Base Commander Air Commodore PDKT Jayasinghe inspected the Base day parade in the morning which initiated the proceedings.In line with the Base day activities an all night pirith chanting was held to commemorate the members who made the supreme sacrifice for their...

The SLAF marked the National Tree Planting Day, by planting trees at Air Force Headquarters, SLAF Colombo and SLAF Guwanpura at the auspicious time of 0901 hrs this morning. The main event which was held at SLAF Headquarters Colombo was carried out on the direction of the Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal Harsha Abeywicrama and organized by Air Commodore Vijitha Guneratna Commanding...

The Dental Unit at Sri Lanka Air Force Katunayake conducted a series of events coinciding with International Oral Health Day 2011.The International Dental Federation (FDI) and World Heath Organization (WHO) initiated the first oral health day in 2008 and continued to strengthen the aim of this venture by raising oral health awareness around the world. In order to enhance awareness on ora...

Ishara Madurangi of the Sri Lanka Air Force became champion in three categories at the All Island Open Table Tennis Tournament which concluded recently at the Jagath Rajapaksha International Table Tennis Complex at Kandy. The tournament which was organized by the Kandy TT Federation attracted over 500 participants.Talented Ishara participated in the single, double and mixed dou...

Sri Lanka Air Force Museum celebrated its 2nd Formation day on 5th of November 2011.The celebrations began with a Working Parade in the morning where the formation Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Malinda Perera addressed all Officers, Airmen and civilians of the formation. Thereafter the celebrations continued with charity work in the children’s ward at the National Cancer Hospital ...

Sri Lanka Air Force Base Vavuniya celebrated its 33rd Formation Day recently.The Base Commander Air Commodore KFR Fernando inspected the working parade which was held to mark the formation day and which initiated the proceedings of the day.Shramadana campaigns were conducted at the Sri Bodhidakshinaramaya temple and Mundimuruppu Sinhala/ Tamill Vidyalaya. Furthermore prioritizing the bas...

Major General Thomas L Conant paid a courtesy call on the Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama recently. The General was accompanied by the US Defence Attache Lt Col Patrick J Schuler and  a delegation of two officers.Major General Conant who is on temporary duty with the Marine Forces Pacific is slated to take over duty as the next Deputy Commander of the...

The aircrew water survival and jungle survival training programme no 10-11, which was conducted over a period of one week, was successfully completed fulfilling all the aims of the trainees and the instructors. The closing address and certificates awarding ceremony was held on the 2nd November 2011. Air Cdre DLS Dias, representing the Director Air Operations AVM GP Bulathsinghala graced ...

“Guwan Prathiba Praba’ a novel event in search of true talent of the SLAF was staged at the Auditorium of the British School in Colombo this evening (5th November 2011) and concluded as a resounding success.According to a concept of the Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Air Force Seva Vanitha Unit (SVU), Mrs Neelika Abeywickrema, this mega talent search was initiated approximately 3 month...