In 1972, he joined the Imperial Iranian Army Aviation and passed the Bell 206 JetRanger and AH-1 Cobra piloting courses, earning the ranking of assistant lieutenant.

[3] In September 1980, when the Iran-Iraq War began, Keshvari, who had been wounded in the chest in the earlier 1979 Kurdish rebellion, immediately joined the battlefield, while having another scheduled surgery.

[1] On 7 December 1980, at the age of 27, Keshvari and his co-pilot Rahim Pezeshki, along with another AH-1J SeaCobra piloted by Ali Akbar Shiroodi, and a Bell 206A JetRanger utility helicopter, launched Operation Ashura to destroy an Iraqi military convoy near the border of Ilam Province, advancing deeper into Iranian territory.

Keshvari told the other two helicopters to retreat, and drew attention of the Iraqi fighters while heading toward an Iranian Air Defense site.

The JetRanger rescued the co-pilot Pezeshki, but was forced to flee and leave Keshvari's body as the Iraqi fighters were going to make another pass.

Hojjat Shah-Mohammadi, Seyyed Amir Ma'soumi, Tehran: Haft, ISBN 964-92199-1-9, 212 pages;[19] consisted of brief biographies of Ahmad Keshvari and Ali Akbar Shiroodi, and a collection of memories of officers and other people about them.

[20] In 1992, Iranian television made a series that was about pilots of the western war zone such as Ali Akbar Shiroodi, Ahmad Keshvari, and Soheilian.

Muhammad Jozani and Javad Hashemi portrayed Shiroodi and Ahmad Keshvari's roles, respectively, in this series whose director was Hossein Ghasemi Jami.

[21] Flight Wing, which was presented at the 26th Tehran International Book Fair, reflects on the life of Ahmad Keshvari and has been written in a fictional way for young readers.