AFCAT age limit: are you eligible?
Air Force Common Admission Test · Indian Air Force
General category
20 – 26 years
measured on stated as a born-between window, and it differs between flying and ground duty.
This year’s notification is not out yet. These figures come from the previous one. They are here so you can plan — not as this year’s official limits.
Check your own date of birth
Your age is measured on the cut-off date, not today — which is why knowing your age is not the same as knowing whether you qualify.
Your date of birth and category stay in this browser. They are not sent to our server, not put in the page address and not written to any log.
Age relaxation by category
This exam gives no category age relaxation.
Not «we do not have the data» — none is granted. The upper limit above is the same for General, OBC, SC, ST and PwBD candidates alike. A calculator that adds the usual +3 or +5 here would tell you that you qualify when you do not.
What the number above does not tell you
🔴 No caste age relaxation. Flying branch and Ground Duty branches have DIFFERENT windows, and the flying branch is the narrower one. Read the branch-wise table.
Source
The notification is the authority on every figure on this page — not us. Open the official page for AFCAT.
Figures on this page last reviewed 9 August 2026. Age limits change between notifications; if this date is old, trust the notification and not this page.
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