Sattar Alvi
| Sattar Alvi | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Abdus Sattar Alvi |
| Nickname(s) | Master of Migs |
| Born | 1944 (age 72–73) Bannu, North-West Frontier Province, British India (Present-day Bannu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan) |
| Allegiance |
 Pakistan
|
| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Air Force
|
| Years of service | 1963–1998 |
| Rank |
  Air-Commodore (Brigadier) |
| Service number | PAF No. 4534 |
| Unit | No. 11 Squadron Arrows |
| Commands held |
PAF Base Rafiqui Combat Commanders' School |
| Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Yom Kippur War of 1973 |
| Awards |
 Sitara-i-Imtiaz (military)  Sitara-e-Jurat
|
| Other work | Flight instructor |
Air Commodore Abdus Sattar Alvi (Urdu: عبد ستار ىلوى), SJ, is a retired one-star rank air force officer and a fighter pilot in the Pakistan Air Force, who is renown for his gallantry actions during his participation in the third Indo-Pakistani in 1971, and served as an military advisor in the Syrian Air Force during the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
In 1974, Alvi shot down the Israeli Air Force's Mirage III over the dogfight took place in Golan Heights in Syria, and was honored for his bravery with gallantry war-time medals by Syrian and Pakistan government.
Alvi was commissioned in Pakistan Air Force in 1965 as a pilot officer (Given that he was born in 1949, he would have been only 16), and had participated in the 1965 Indo-Pak war and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 where he had flown the F-6 aircraft. After the war, he was sent to PAF Combat Commander's School where he was trained and graduated as one of the top pilots.
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