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INAS 314

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ110443040 ↗
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The Indian Naval Air Squadron 314 (INAS 314) is a naval squadron of the Indian Navy based at Naval Air Enclave (NAE) Porbandar. The squadron was commissioned on 29 November 2019 by Vice Admiral MS Pawar.

This squadron is currently operational under the Western Naval Command.

History

INAS 314 was officially commissioned by Vice Admiral MS Pawar on 29 November 2019 at Porbandar. It operates Dornier 228 manufactured by HAL. This squadron is establish to the first responder in crucial area of North Arabian Sea. This is the sixth squadron of Dornier 228. The squadron is the first to operate 4 aircraft of newly ordered Dornier aircraft.

The squadron has been primarily tasked with maritime surveillance, search and rescue operations and to provide targeting data for weapon platforms. Indian Navy plans on inducting 12 new such aircraft.

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This entry incorporates text from “INAS 314” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.