New Delhi. General Deepak Kapoor, Chief of Army Staff, has presented the Annual Flight Safety Trophy for the year 2007-08 to 35 Recce and Observation Flight of the Army Aviation Corps. This trophy is awarded annually to the Army Aviation Flight achieving the best flight safety record during the year.
The Army Aviation Corps is a versatile force multiplier in modern warfare. The aviators and helicopters of this elite arm operate regularly in extreme weather from the deserts of Rajasthan to the icy heights of the Siachen Glacier.

Flying more than 50,000 hours every year, Army Aviation helicopters are the lifeline for the far-flung isolated posts, ferrying in men and material and evacuating casualties.

One Army Aviation unit is also actively deployed in Congo as part of the UN forces.

The Corps has also rendered yeoman service to the nation in times of natural calamities. A host of awards won by the officers and men of the Corps are a testimony of its gallant history.

Presently the Corps is undergoing modernization and upgradation to augment its operational potential.

The Army aviation continues to live upto its moto “SWIFT AND SURE”.