New Delhi: Two days ahead of Navy Day on December 4, Indian Navy’s first woman pilot will join Naval operations, official sources said in Kochi on November 21.

Lieutenant Shivangi will join naval operations on completion of operational training in Kochi on December 2.

“Shivangi will graduate to become the First female Pilot of Indian Navy. She hails from Muzzafarpur, Bihar and completed her schooling from DAV Public school, Muzzafarpur,” they said.

She was inducted into Indian Navy as SSC (Pilot) as part of 27 NOC course in Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala and got formally commissioned by Vice Admiral AK Chawla, in June last year.

The Navy’s Aviation branch has had women officers operating as air traffic control officers and as ‘observers’ in the aircraft who are responsible for communication and weapons, the source said.

Shivangi, who had been undergoing training at the Southern Naval Command in Kochi will get authorisation on December 2 to fly Dornier aircraft.

The Navy will have its first woman pilot trained by Navy to make first cockpit entry on December 2, the source said without elaborating.