{"id":1433,"date":"2012-07-02T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2013-05-18T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:43:38","slug":"registro-argentino-de-aeronaves-civiles-por-fin-revelado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/registro-argentino-de-aeronaves-civiles-por-fin-revelado\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine civil aircraft register unveiled!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Complete Civil Aircraft Argentine Register 1938-2011 (Volume 1: LV-A to LV-M)<\/strong>, by Michael Magnusson and Gabriel Pavlovcic (published by Ediciones Argentinidad). Dimensions: 21 cm x 29.5 cm x 335 pages. Printed in black and white with colour covers. Price (Argentina, May 2012): $ 150. Rating: 5 out of 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After decades improvising spread sheets, querying scarce bibliography or navigating through endless Internet searches, aviation analysts and enthusiasts are finally getting a window fully opened to the modern civil aircraft register of Argentina. In a new departure from its traditional Malvinas-focused line of products, Ediciones Argentinidad released in March 2012 the first of two volumes synthesizing data on close to 9,000 aircraft registrations in Argentina\u2019s National Civil Aviation Agency archives, seasoning it with additional research by authors Michael Magnusson<\/strong> (Sweden) and Gabriel Pavlovcic<\/strong> (Argentina). A promising start, this book and its saga should fill a preeminent position in the book shelves of every serious Argentine civil aviation connoisseur\/enthusiast.<\/p>\n

Volume 1<\/strong> comprises registrations in the LV-AAA to LV-MZZ range (not including eight numbered manufacturer registrations in the LV-F block), leaving the remainder of the research for an as yet unscheduled volume 2. Also a matter of speculation is the treatment that book number two will give to ultra-lights and experimental aircraft in the in the LV-U, LV-UX and LV-X ranges. After a five page introduction telling the story of the present Argentine civil aircraft register (for a shorter, yet comparable, synthesis, see Pista 18 for Registro Argentino de Aeronaves Civiles<\/a>), the book gets down to business by presenting individual registration data in spread sheet format with registration, manufacturer, model, construction number, last owner, base, registration date, last change date and remarks columns. The last 40+ pages are filled with a registrations blocks index (at first registration letter-level), a type cross reference listing all registrations for each major maker and model (covering the entire register, not just the registrations in volume 1!), a military serials cross reference, a previous identities table and a summary of ferry (repetitive) registrations in the LV-P range (also for the complete register).<\/p>\n

In average, one in every two to three pages is illustrated with a variety of photographs. Most of them naturally show the fascinating variety of aircraft types flying with Argentine civil markings in the last eight decades, but many others go into details revealing brands (manufacturers, types, models or variants) and badges or logos (flying clubs and aviation sports federations) as photographed in actual Argentine aircraft. Additional illustrations are incorporated in the form of sample advertisements selling many of the aircraft types in other times, an Argentine airports and airfields map and photographs showing several of those facilities throughout the time.<\/p>\n

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One of the black pearls in the Lima-Victor register is B\u00fccker B\u00fc-131 Jungmann LV-IST, the only one of its kind in Argentina. Initially flown by renowned aerobat, Santiago German\u00f3, and rebuilt in the 1980s by restorer, Ricardo Siegrist, it was pictured at Don Torcuato in December 1989 (photo: Carlos Ay).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the book definitively deserves our \u201cfive out of five\u201d score (and probably the \u201cArgentine aviation title of the year\u201d prize!), a few critical remarks are in order. Hopefully, the authors and their publisher will take them into consideration before going to press for volume 2\u2026 The largest dart goes to the poor printing quality, small size or inadequate cropping which rendered several aircraft illustrations useless. Also questionable was the decision not to incorporate captions for all aircraft photos, because valuable information was lost in the process, while a few credits are not entirely correct. A few minor glitches were noted elsewhere in our review, but they don\u2019t alter the general quality of the information made available through this massive research title.<\/p>\n

While the book attempts to cater for both the English and Spanish reader, data and remarks in the aircraft tables end up mixing up both languages incompletely. Coupled to sometimes cryptic and excessively abbreviated comments, this will demand the reader to have a thorough command of spotter jargon and a profound background on Argentine civil aviation to find and exploit many of the treasures in this mammoth reference. Lastly, its publisher should review its sales procedures to avoid selling personalised copies to the wrong customer, as it was the case with the copy purchased for this review, which was autographed for a different customer in Reconquista (Province of Santa Fe)\u2026<\/p>\n

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Cessna Citation I LV-MMR, a veteran of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict flown by Automotores y Servicios crews, is listed and illustrated, albeit with an incorrect credit, in the book (photo: Pablo Cepero).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About the authors<\/h2>\n

Michael Magnusson<\/strong> is President and Chief Executive Officer at Saab Aircraft Leasing, but he\u2019s best known to the aviation enthusiasts community as a respected photo collector and author of at least two titles: \u201cLatin Glory: Airlines of Latin America\u201d (Zenith Press, 1995) and \u201cSaab 340\u201d (Airlife Publishing\u2019s Airline Markings, 1991). He has a keen interest in Argentine aviation dating back to the 1970s, when he first visited the country as a teenage foreign resident.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Pavlovcic<\/strong> is a retired Argentine Air Force colonel whose unabated energies have been redirected from flying military aircraft to writing about Argentine aircraft, both civil and military, with a strong emphasis on preserving the national aviation heritage. His \u201copera prima\u201d was published in 2008 and dealt with the first Argentine civil aircraft register (see Pasando Revista<\/a> in our Pista 18 archive), a natural complement to this title as it documents registrations entered with the system used between 1928 and 1938. He has also authored or co-authored other historical titles dealing with such varying themes as the National Aeronautics Museum or the contribution of women to Argentine aviation. <\/p>\n

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Published and sold by Ediciones Argentinidad since March 2012, is the first of two volumes revealing complete data on close to 9,000 registrations in official Argentine civil aircraft records. The result of a massive research effort by historians Michael Magnusson and Gabriel Pavlovcic, \u201cComplete Civil Aircraft Argentine Register 1938-2011 (Volume 1: LV-A to LV-M)\u201d, opens up an informed window to registrations in Argentina\u2019s National Civil Aviation Agency records, complemented by author\u2019s research elsewhere. Attaining the highest score in our media rating system, this book is a must for any serious Argentine civil aviation expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-lv-register"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/p-1433-650x433.jpg?fit=650%2C433&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKRl-n7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1611,"url":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/registro-lima-vctor-ilustrado\/","url_meta":{"origin":1433,"position":0},"title":"Lima Victor register illustrated","author":"Carlos Ay","date":"Thursday 30 August 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Reviving, updating and spicing up a project inherited from our forerunner, Pista 18, we are pleased to introduce a brief summary to the history and operation of the Argentine Republic National Civil Aircraft Register, from its first implementation in 1926 to the present day. 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