In 1951, No. 14 Squadron was raised as part of a crash expansion plan by the Indian Air Force to counter emerging threats. This expansion was accomplished within just eight weeks, despite major constraints in aircraft availability and trained manpower. Hunters of No. 14 Squadron battled with Sabres of the PAF in the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. No. 14 Squadron was the first to be equipped with the state of the art Jaguar aircraft in 1979. This squadron spent considerable part of their existence in Eastern India, first at
Barrackpore Air Force Station, in the Calcutta suburbs and later at
Kalaikunda, south-west of Calcutta. It was from this airbase they saw action, namely led by
Flight Lieutenant Alfred Tyrone Cooke and his subordinate
Subodh Chandra Mamgain briefly during September 1965 and in December 1971. No. 14 Squadron had the unusual opportunity of being deployed at the captured PAF airbase of
Jessore during the final stages of the Bangladesh war. ==Aircraft==