The INAS 300 is the longest serving combat unit of the Indian Navy,[5] based at INS Hansa.

[2][3] The White Tigers were commissioned on 7 July 1959[5] at RNAS Brawdy, United Kingdom with the Indian High Commissioner to UK, Vijay Laxmi Pandit, in attendance.

The squadron left RNAS Brawdy on 31 July 1961 with eleven Hawker Sea Hawks and embarked INS Vikrant off the Isle of Wight.

They now act as an operational conversion unit for fighter pilots after completing Naval Orientation Flying form INAS 551.

Later they qualify to the operational squadron, the INAS 303 (nicknamed Black Panthers).