TEHRAN — The last pilot from World War II, Captain Mohammad Taqi Faravardeh, passed away on Tuesday, IRNA reported.

Born in 1916, Faravardeh was the oldest Iranian pilot. He died of old age in his own house in Tehran.
In 1933 he started his career as the 38th pilot in the Air Force at Mehrabad Airport.

Faravardeh was honored in a ceremony to pay homage to the pilots who defended Iran during Iraq’s war against Iran in the 1980s. The ceremony was held in attendance of Commander of the Iranian Air Force, Brigadier General Hassan Shah-Safi, in 2012.

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