Abolfazl Mehreganfar

Timsar Abolfazl Mehreganfar
Mehreganfar in 1979
Allegiance	Iran
Service / branch	Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Imperial Iranian Air Force
Rank	2nd brigadier general
Battles / wars	Iran–Iraq War

Abolfazl Mehreganfar (Persian: ابوالفضل مهرگان‌فر) is an Iranian retired fighter pilot of Grumman F-14 Tomcat who served during the Iran–Iraq War.^[1]

French military historian Pierre Razoux has credited him with 6 aerial victories, a record that qualifies him as a flying ace.^[2][3] He achieved the rank of 2nd brigadier general.^[4]

See also

• List of Iranian flying aces

References

1. Cooper, Tom; Bishop, Farzad (2004), Holmes, Tony; Hales-Dutton, Bruce (eds.), Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat, Osprey Combat Aircraft, vol. 49, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, p. 48, ISBN 1-84176-787-5
2. Razoux, Pierre (2015), The Iran-Iraq War, translated by Nicholas Elliott, Harvard University Press, Table 1.3: Victories by Iranian pilots (3 or more victories), p. 571, ISBN 978-0-674-91571-8
3. Razoux, Pierre (2019), Le siècle des As (1915-1988): Une autre histoire de l'aviation (in French), Place des éditeurs, Section 31, p. 15, ISBN 978-2-262-04827-3
4. Mehrnia, Ahmad (29 May 2016), "Air Raid to Al-Waleed (21): The Story of Demolishing Fighters and the Equipment in Al-Waleed Triple Military Bases Known as H-3", Iranian Oral History, translated by Zahra Hosseinian, Resistance Literature and Culture Researches and Studies Center, retrieved 5 November 2020