He served Pakistan Air Force from 1948 to 1967 and then joined SUPARCO as its executive director and retired in 1970. After his retirement he lived a quiet life for ten years and died in 1980 and is buried in the Catholic Cemetery in Karachi.
Zofia Turowicz has the distinction of teaching and training Pakistani pilots. Between 1950 and 1954 Zofia taught gliding to the Shaheen Air Cadets in Karachi and Rawalpindi. She recalls her days with the Pakistan Air Force and cherishes refreshing her memories so much that despite her old age a youthful gleam of happiness appears on her face on the mention of names of families she had friendship with. She remembers how she would train pilots and how she would give them confidence.
Zofia was born in Warsaw in 1916. It was a time when First World War was at the end and Poland re-emerged as a soviet nation, after having been partitioned between Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Russia over a century earlier.
After completing her secondary schooling in Warsaw, she enrolled at the Warsaw Technical University (polytechnic), to study aeronautical engineering.
She had a passion for flying, and joined the Warsaw Aero Club where she was a keen glider pilot, parachutist and balloonist and competed in several national events. It was at the Aero Club that she met her future husband Wladyslaw Turowicz.
After braving the miseries that war brings and serving in Romania and England, the couple came to Pakistan along with thirty other Poles, all on three years contracts with the Pakistan Air Force.
Zofia and her husband were based at Drigh Road where her husband served in the technical training section and she served as a civilian gliding instructor for the Shaheen Air Cadets, under Fl. Lieutenant Z. Mikulski, whose wife was also a noted glider pilot and instructor.
Zofia at the age of 89 is a storehouse of information on the initial days of the Pakistan Air force but the problem is that of collection of information.
A retired senior Air Force officer who is able to help her remember the past can do this job. Her three daughters are married to Pakistanis and the fourth to a Bangladeshi.