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Statistics for 2006 :
Total Web Space 103 MB - >147 MB
Individual Warbird Photos : 232->???
Individual HTML Pages: 265
Listings : 333 - > ???
Total Visitors in 2005 :
41717 (160793 Cumulative Visitors)
Total Attrition Records IAF:
845 » 9??  PAF: 222 » ???  IAFWW2:293 » ???  RAFSEAC: 367» ???
Total Civil Register Records :
1994 » ????

20th December 2006
MiG-25R at NDA Pune
NDA KMZ
Canberra at Bareilly
Gnat at Varanasi.
Updated News
Updated Mag Watch.

31st October 2006
MiG-23MF from Gandhinagar

23rd September 2006
Photos of MiG-25R at Palam.
C47-Dakota at Kohima.
Warbirds at Akash Mess moved.
Missing Indian BF109 in UK?

31st August 2006
Dakota VT-AUM from Nagda.
HT-2 at Dharmasthala along with Updated photos of Dakota. 
Gnat from Eastern Air Command
Updated Magwatch

26th July 2006
IAM Gnat, Devon, Iskra, HT-2, Wright Flyer in Bangalore.
Updated Magwatch

28th May 2006
AFTC Jalahalli Part II Uploaded.
Updated Magwatch,
Updated News Reports,
Updated WW2 Attrition.

15th April 2006
Air Force Academy Dundigal TS-11 Iskra, Kiran Cutaway, Deepak Cutaway.
Warbird Sightings.
Warbird News.

18th March 2006
Warbirds of Nagpur, MiG-29, Boeing 707, Gnat, Hunter. (Rahul Devnath)

28th February 2006
Hashimara Warbirds Gnat, Ouragan, MiG27. (Sanjay Simha, Rahul Devnath)
Updated Kalaikunda Warbirds. (Sanjay Simha)
News Reports.
Updated Sightings

Milestone Site now accessible via new shorter domain - Warbirds.in

31st January 2006
Halwara Warbirds MiG-23, Hunter and Sukhoi at War Memorial. (Anandeep Pannu) 
News Reports.
Updated Sightings

Statistics for 2005 :
Total Web Space 78.70 MB - >103 MB
Individual Warbird Photos : 215->232
Individual HTML Pages: 265
Listings : 297 - > 333
Total Visitors in 2005 :
41717 (160793 Cumulative Visitors)
Total Attrition Records IAF:
817 » 845  PAF: 218 » 222  IAFWW2:258 » 293  RAFSEAC: 274» 367
Total Civil Register Records :
1874 » 1994

31st December 2005
Air Force Technical College Jalahalli Part 1 Updated.
Includes the WDY 2005 Vampire F.3, MiG-21 F-13, MiG-21FLs, MiG-23 MF.
Updated Sightings

30th November 2005
Iskra at Mussoorie,
Updated pictures of Gnat at Lovedale,
Sukhoi-7 from Heritage in Jodhpur.
Updated Sightings.

13th October 2005
DHC-4 Caribou , C-47 at IAF Museum.
HS-748 at Palam.
Salvaged Sea Hawk from the Sea.
Updated Warbird Lists Queries

Another Milestone has been reached
Warbirds of India has reached 150,000 visitors in the period Jan 1, 2001 to  Oct 12, 2005

30th September 2005
Mi-4 at CIJWS at Mizoram,
Hawker Hunter at Delhi
Updated J & K Page.  
The Warbird Discoveries of 2004,
Otter Photo at Ambala
New War Relics Site released.

22nd August 2005
Beech Queen Air , Twin Bonanza and other relics in Chennai.
New Sightings.
Delhi Airport Updated .  
Magwatch.

Sorry No Updates in July 2005!  (July is getting to be a no-updates month for second year in a row)

20th June 2005
Dakotas in Delhi.
Updated Civil Register Search. 
Magwatch.

31st May 2005
Iskra at Begumpet.
Chetak at MCEME in Hyderabad.
Warbird News and  Sightings.

30th April 2005
De Havilland DH9 at Bikaner.
More Photos from Chandigarh.  
Japanese relics at Kanpur Club.
Warbird Auction! from 1975.
Warbird Sightings.

19th March 2005
Iskras at IAF Museum Palam, and C-119.
Warbirds Population Census crosses 300 Mark! .
Coverage of the Iskra Phasing out ceremony.

27th February 2005
Marut and Harvard at Sainik School Kazhakootam
Sightings, Magwatch Updated

24th January 2005
Warbirds at Dundigal undergoes a major update.
New Iskra, Cockpit Trainers, Marut and Gnat Pictures
Magwatch Updated

Statistics for 2004 :
Total Web Space 61.81 MB - >78.70 MB
Individual Warbird Photos : 194->215
Individual HTML Pages: 265
Listings : 277 - > 297
Total Visitors in 2004 :
35726 (119076 Cumulative Visitors)
Total Attrition Records IAF:
777 » 817  PAF: 218 » 222  IAFWW2:258 » 293  RAFSEAC: 274» 367
Total Civil Register Records :
1840 » 1874

PREVIOUS UPDATES IN 2004

31st December 2004
HF-24 Marut at SWAC HQ.
Updated News and Stats

26th November 2004
MiG-21 F13 at AFTC Bangalore.

31st October 2004
IAF Kanpur I and Auster Aiglet at PEC Chandigarh.
Updated Magwatch.
Updated Sightings.

28th September 2004
IAF Kanpur II at Indian Insitute of Tech, Kanpur
Other aircraft at Kanpur.
Updated Sightings.

A Milestone has been reached
Warbirds of India has reached 100,000 visitors in the period Jan 1, 2001 to May 31 2004

31st August 2004
Naval Aviation Museum in Goa
Rishi Tandons Warbird Trip Report
Updated Sightings.

Sorry No Updates in July 2004!

20 June 2004

Dakota VT-CYT from Pilani.
Collings B24 T18 article.
Indian pilot in the B24.
Updated Sightings.

23 May 2004
New Gnat in Lovedale, TN.
Updated Magwatch

30 April 2004
Updated Pune Section.
New Pictures of Canberra IF908,
Canberra IF910 and
MiG-21 Bis C-2098

28 March 2004
Stinson Sentinel at Chennai,
Updated HIET  Harvard ,
More pics of Hunter at Rajasthan
Updated F-104 Page. 
Magwatch  

22 February 2004
Wright Flyer at Bangalore
HT-2 at Chennai
Mi-8 at Chandigarh
Caribou at Delhi
Updated Magwatch
Civil Registry & News

5 January 2004
Spitfire from Ambala.
Dakota at Hyderabad,
Tu-124 at Lucknow.
Updated Civil Registry.
Updated News

Statistics for 2003 :
Total Web Space 50MB - >61.81MB
Individual Warbird Photos : 169->194
Individual HTML Pages: 182
Listings : 242 - > 277
Total Visitors in 2003 :
31050
Total Attrition Records IAF:
777  PAF:218 IAFWW2:258  RAFSEAC: 274
Total Civil Register Records :
1840

PREVIOUS UPDATES IN 2003

15 December 2003
Hunter from Delhi Subroto Park.
New picture of Gnat at Ambala.
Overseas Iskras (Hans van Herk)
Overseas Tigermoths (Simon Watson)
Updated Magwatch.
Warbird Sightings.
New Warbird Forum.

1 November 2003
Alize, Hu263, Chetak from NIAT (Sandeep Unnithan)
Wrecked Seaking from Cochin. (Sanjay Simha)
Hawker Hunter from Leh. (Arun Sharma)
Another photo of Gnat from Dharamsala
Updated Attrition Reports

20 October 2003
HT-2 IX-509 from Quilon.
MiG-21M and Hunter BA360 from CAC HQ at Allahabad.
Overseas Vampires in USA

11 October 2003
HAL HT-2 at Pondicherry by Andreis Waardenburg
HAL Ajeet at Eastern Air Command
Magwatch - Indian DH-9

21 September 2003
Restored Spitfire MV-459 at Ambala
Auster and Sentinel at JFC
More dust ridden birds at JFC
Missing An-12 Mystery Solved
Updated World War Two Attrition New section on SEAC Losses.

15 August 2003
Alize , Chetak, Seaking, Seahawk from Cochin by Kapil Chandni
SA-2 and  Harvard from Dundigal
Vampire from Hakimpet.
"Lord Let thy servant go in peace now" Spitfire special by Polly Singh
Updated Magwatch

22 June 2003
Hunter T66 at Jorhat Park.
Mil Mi-4 at Jorhat.
Better picture of Chabua Hunter.

18 May 2003
Beech Baron and Pushpak at Hyderabad.
Updated Magwatch.
Soaring Again - The article that started the Hunt for the Me-109.

27 April 2003
Dakota at Mumbai
Avros at Delhi
A-26 Invader at Karachi.
Updated Magwatch.
Updated WW2 Attrition in Crashes Section.

31 March 2003
Updated Warbirds of Pakistan. (Abbas Ali).
MiG-21 Pretender down under! (George Canciani)

27 February 2003
Spitfire relics from Ambala.
Gnat from MIT Chennai.(B Harry)
War Memorial at Gwalior (Sanjay Simha)
New Sightings

15 February 2003
Sukhoi-7U and MiG-21Us from Tezpur.(Simon Watson)
Spitfire Recovery.

25 January 2003
HT-2 from Bangalore. (Sanjay Simha)
F-6 from Chittagong. (Ashit Chakraborty)
Indian Civil Aircraft Register

15 January 2003
Spitfire from Chandigarh. (India Today, Peter Arnold)
Ambala's Frozen Tear
Magwatch Updated.
News piece on Iskras

Statistics for 2002 :
Total Web Space 17MB - > 50MB
Individual Warbird Photos : 100->169
Individual HTML Pages: 182
Listings : 80 - > 242
Total Visitors in 2002 : 30000

PREVIOUS UPDATES IN 2002

30 December 2002
MiG-21s from Ozhar.
New Sightings.
North Eastern Sights report.

23 December 2002
Sea Hawk from Germany.
Hunter from Jaisalmer.
Magwatch updated.

14 December 2002
Sea Hawk from Visakhapatnam.
Pushpak from Gulbarga.

04 December 2002
Hunter T66D at Nagpur. by Kapil Chandni
Overseas warbird from Netherlands. by Hans van Herk
New Sightings.
New Lists .

17 November 2002
Gnat and MiG at Pragati Maidan in Delhi.
Dakota sighting Report from Palam airport.

10 November 2002
Warbird Discovery of the year.  by A A Laxman
Gnat at DSSC Wellington. by Varun Chakrapani

25 October 2002
Tambaram Warbirds at Chennai, by B Harry
New Page on Tempests Overseas, by Mikael Olrog, Dan Pescoe, Simon Watson
Magwatch Updated,
New PAF Attrition Section.

12 October 2002
Tigermoth and SA-2 at Dundigal,
Gnat from Nagpur. (Kapil Chandni)

05 October 2002
Hunter at Chabua, (Polly Singh)

Hunter from Kalaikunda, (Polly Singh)
MiG-21 and Canberra at Pune. (Sanjay Simha and Kapil Chandni)
Sightings Updated

21 September 2002
Piper Cub at Kanpur (K S Prashanth)

Gnat and Marut at Pune (Kapil Chandni)
Faridkot Aircraft Video,
Magwatch Updated

09 September 2002
E-325 at Bombay,

Gnat at Dehradun, (Doon School)
HF-24 Marut at Bangalore. (Sanjay Simha)

22 August 2002
MiG-27 at Nasik (Sandeep Unnithan)

Pushpak at Bangalore (Sanjay Simha)
Ouragan at Khadakvasla (Kapil Chandni)
New sightings

16 August 2002
Warbirds at EAC (MiG) ,

CAC (Hunter)
and WAC (Delhi). (All pics via Anandeep Pannu)

14 August 2002
DHC-1 Chipmunk at Hyderabad.

Updated IN-252 and Harvard Pages at Chennai. from B Harry
New sightings
New Magwatch

03 August 2002
Dakota at Dharmasthala. by A A Laxman.

New Sightings.

24 July 2002
Hunter, Gnat and Sukhoi in Punjab page (Courtesy of IAF). 
Another Hunter at Uttarlai.

01 July 2002
Aeronca Super Chief at Bangalore from Dr. K S Raman. 
New Pictures of HAL Pushpaks overseas from Dr. K S Raman. 
New Sightings

13 June 2002
Alize IN-212 at INS Vikrant.

05 June 2002
Warbirds of Kalaikunda with pictures of Otter, Hunters, and Gnats!
New update in Magwatch

27 May 2002
NAL Hansa at HAL Museum by B Harry. 
New Sightings.

21 May 2002
Singhania Dakota at Thane. 
New Sightings
Attrition updated

04 May 2002
Harvard from HIET and Seahawk at MIT both in Chennai by B Harry. 
Pima  B-24 Liberator added by Sree Kumar. Pics by Wg Cdr Vasan

27 April 2002.
Derelict Devon at Yelahanka by Simon Watson. 
HT-2 from Bidar by Simon Watson . 
New Sightings.

05 April 2002.
Rare image of Vintage flight at IAFM feature via Arun Sharma.
New picture of Sea Hawk IN-244 at Goa. 
More information on Warbirds of Kerala.
Warbirds in Srilanka Updated with lists by Bob Ogden.
New Sightings.
Magwatch Updated

01 April 2002.
Ajeet Display at Vayu Bhawan in Delhi from Stewart Lanham.
Derelict Connie at Pune
Overseas Warbirds Section overhauled. B-24s
Overseas Pushpaks,
Overseas Tigermoths,
Warbirds in Srilanka.
Indian Air Force Wartime Attrition added.
New Sightings
New Magwatch

17th  March 2002.
HAL Gnat at Ludhiana at the N J S Sekhon memorial.

14th  March 2002.
More Ex-IAF Gnats in the United States.
Video of Sukhoi-7s being blown up from APD89.

03rd  March 2002.
New pictures of Airworthy Ajeet E-265 added into the IAF Museum Section. 
Feature on IAF Vintage Flights last public Display.
News Report on Dakota Damage in Thane.
New sightings

14th Feb 2002.
Two New pictures of an Il-14 and HT-2 added into the IAF Museum Section. 
Devon from VSM Engineering Bangalore.
Query Page updated.

10th Feb 2002.
Photo feature on the MiG-21U U-660 from Hyderabad.
Updated Warbirds List.
News Article on Canberras Still Flying

03rd  Feb 2002.
New feature  Warbirds in Fims : Border

01st Feb 2002.
New feature on the HAL Aerospace Museum in Bangalore.
New sightings in Pune.
New Database Query page in Attrition Section

24th Jan 2002.
Folland Gnat IE-1062 at Dharamsala
More details about Leh airfield.
New sightings

16th Jan 2002.
Sea King IN-510 and Sea Hawk IN-188 in the Vikrant Page.

14th Jan 2002.
Canberra IF-908 picture added from Pune.
New Sightings

10th Jan 2002.
Two Seahawks and Cutaway Alize in new Cochin Page.
F-86 Sabre in Pakistan.
Updated Warbird News
New Sightings

07th Jan 2002.
Harvard in Newly added Coimbatore  Page.
Air India's DH Leopardmoth in Delhi
New Sightings

05th Jan 2002.
New Jallahali Page with MiG-21 ,
HT-2 from Bangalore Military School,
HS-748 from Begumpet

03rd Jan 2002.
Rearranged Navigation . Now organised Statwise
New Pictures of BA-313 , Vampire at Hakimpet,
Iskra Wreck at Secunderabad, and Iskra from Hakimpet
Attrition 2001 Section
New Sightings
Sitemap, Place finder and Geographic Map for easy navigation

Statistics for 2001 :
Total Web Space 2MB - > 17MB
Individual Warbird Photos : 66->100
Individual HTML Pages: 135
Listings : 80 - > 180
Total Visitors in 2001 : 22300

PREVIOUS UPDATES IN 2001

03rd Dec 2001.
Super Connie and Marut at Agra.  
New Sightings
Bifurication of Lists into Confirmed List and
Unconfirmed List

30th Nov  2001.
New aircraft on the Vikrant. Sea Hawk, Alize, Sea King, Chetak for the Navy week celebrations.
New Sightings,

25th Nov  2001.
Warbirds of Bangalore with new pictures of Marut, Ajeet, HT-2, Su-7 etc.
New Sightings,
and news report on Vikrant

1st Nov  2001.
Sea Hawk at Trivandrum in Kerala,
A Possible MiG-21FL at Tambaram?

25th Oct  2001.
Warbirds @ Dundigal - A New feature
New Team page - The Guys behind this site
Indian Warbirds Overseas List
Dakota at BITS Pilani
Another Old picture of BD-888 in Chennai Page.

6th Oct  2001.
Sukhoi-7 and Mi-8 pictures from Bhuj Airfield.
Old picture of BD-888 in Chennai Page.

30th Sept  2001.
News Reports of BHU Hurricane and Museum in Jodhpur
Indian Warbird List
Updated Attrition Lists

31st August 2001.
HAL Ajeet from Mayo College , Ajmer in Rajasthan uploaded. Pictures provided by Rishu Mandolia
Report on Hurricane Sighting in Patna

26th August 2001.
Warbirds of Chennai - A New feature incl some rare aircraft like the Prentice, Harvard and many more!
Pictures provided by Vijay Simha Reddy and Ashit Chakraborty

05th August 2001.
Ouragan at Kanpur.
Updated News on New HAL Heritage Center

20th June 2001.
Canberra B(i) 58 at Pune .
HF-24 Marut from Jodhpur.

10th June 2001.
Updated IAF Museum Giants and Vintage Pages.
Attrition News started.

3rd June 2001.
Updated News page on Corsair recovery .
New Updated Warbirds of Bangladesh section. A feature from Ashit Chakraborty..
Enlarged MiG-21bis from Pune

25th May 2001.
New Dedicated Page on IAF Gnats Overseas

Updated information on Sea Hawk in Germany in  Indian Colors  .

Ashit Chakraborty's Pictures of the HAL Gnat from Nagpur 
Sqn Ldr Deepak Cariappa's fantastic blow up picture of  Hunter from Dehradun 
Enlarged picture of Hunter from Faridabad.  

10th May 2001.
New Pictures of the Iskra from Hakimpet ,

Picture of Chetak from Hyderabad

30th April 2001.
New Dehradun  Page with pictures of Hunter at RIMC
Warbirds in Films: A review of Sangam .

15th April 2001
Indian Aircraft HF-24, Gnats abroad in Indian Colors (Now renamed to Germany page). 

Warbirds in Films: A review of Hindustan Ki Kasam .

26th January 2001
AFA Harvard restored to Original Colors.  
Marut BR-463 at Nehru Science Center Bombay .
Closeup of Gnat at NDA.
New Article in Features

15th January 2001
Sea Hawk from Marmagoa,
Sea Harrier, Alize and Sea Land from  Naval Aviation Museum.
Hyderabad Page Updated with new sightings of HS 748s.
IAF Attrition 2000 Uploaded.
Hawker Hunter Picture from IIT Kharagpur in the Kalaikunda Page.

6th January 2001
Hunter picture from Faridabad.
SA-2 picture from Nagpur MCHQ building.

1st  January 2001.
Site Launched.

 

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