Current Role
No. 5 Squadron currently operates from SLAF Katunayake and operates the F-7G in air defence role and F-7BS in strike bombing role. It also operates 3 FT-7s as conversion trainers. The squadron supported Sri Lanka Armed Forces the civil war that ended in 2009.
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