Warbirds of India

An aerial view of Sainik School Kazhakootam shows the HF-24 Marut in is earlier light blue paint scheme in the top left quadrant. The Harvard is to the right of it near the grey roofed auditorium. Photo Courtesy : www.sskzm.org

Outside of Trivandrum, is the small town of Kazhakootam. There is a Sainik School at Kazhakootam which has a Harvard and a HF-24 Marut preserved. This was confirmed to us a long time back by Anup Ramachandran by Email.

HAL HT-2 [IX-509] seen at the Bal Vihar (Children's Center) about 2 km from Quilon city. Photo Courtesy : V Ajay Kumar via Sandeep Unnithan

One of the relatively minor cities of Kerala where there is no significant Military presence is the small city of Quilon, Or Kovalam to go by its Indian name. Quilon is about 70 km N of the Kerala capital of Trivandrum.