Argentina’s Air Force has spent decades planning to replace its dwindling inventory of Delta-fighters. The most recent solo flight ceremony was a good opportunity to check official sources as to the present status of this “never ending story” kind of project.
STOP PRESS! The Argentine Air Force is about to celebrate a new anniversary of the 1982 Malvinas War with a formal ceremony and a two-day air fest at Morón Air Base, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Following a protracted rebuilding process and a 15,000 km ferry flight, Air Force DHC-6 Twin Otter “Tango 85” returned to its home base in Comodoro Rivadavia (Chubut) on 23 April. Read on to learn more about Argentina’s first successful DHC-6-350 conversion in Canada.
Close to 25 aircraft and 250 service men and women from different Air Force and Army units were involved in the first large-scale joint exercise of year 2010. For little more than a week, combat search and rescue operations took place in and around Mendoza/El Plumerillo airport.
Freshly nationalized, Argentine aircraft and maintenance firm FAdeA (Fábrica Argentina de Aviones) has started making it into the news following its international debut in FIDAE, Chile’s air, space a security fair, held in Santiago in March 2010.
