{"id":5965,"date":"2021-08-09T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2021-07-30T03:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T02:05:55","slug":"lv-mre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/lv-mre\/","title":{"rendered":"LV-MRE<\/b>: The Argentine “Bonanza-struck”<\/i> Tomahawk…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of 157 Tomahawks built in Chincul’s Pocito (S.J.) plan under Piper’s Foreign Assembly Program (line number 39), the aircraft was designated “PA-A-38-112” (the middle “-A-” denoting Argentine manufacturing) carrying c\/n AR38-78A0624<\/strong> and Chincul’s peculiar line number AR-0160<\/strong>. Purchased by the Argentine Air Force, it was delivered under “Plan Forjando Alas”<\/em><\/strong> (Program “Forging Wings”, which in the late 1970s funded delivery of PA-38s and several other light aircraft to flying clubs throughout the nation) to Aeroclub R\u00edo de la Plata<\/strong><\/em> (R\u00edo de la Plata Flying Club), its sole operator throughout its 20+ years career.<\/p>\n

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\"Ezpeleta <\/a> <\/div>
\"Ezpeleta <\/a> <\/div>
\"Ezeiza <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezeiza <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Circa <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezpeleta <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezpeleta <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezpeleta <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Circa <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezepeleta <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezpeleta <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezpeleta <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Variants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

PA-A-38-112 Tomahawk (built 06\/05\/1979).<\/p>\n

Identities<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

LV-MRE (registered 08\/22\/1979).<\/p>\n

Owners or operators<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Chincul (06\/1979), Aeroclub R\u00edo de la Plata (08\/22\/1979).<\/p>\n

Accidents & incidents<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  • 09\/15\/1994: Collision on runway with Bonanza V35 LV-NXG due to converging approaches from different altitudes while landing in Ezpeleta (B.A.).<\/li>\n
  • 12\/16\/2001: Run off runway while landing at Coronel Brandsen (B.A.), damaging left wing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Fate<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

    Recovered to Ezpeleta (B.A.), with fuselage stored inside a club hangar and the right wing decorating the flying club’s bar through 07\/2021.<\/p>\n

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    Acknowledgements:<\/b> Sergio Berdyszak, DAD\/Baires Aviation Photography, Alberto O. Dom\u00ednguez, Juli\u00e1n Lima, Gabriel Pavlovcic y Esteban Santill\u00e1n. Bibliography<\/strong>: Mar\u00f3n + Ghiretti: “Aquellos aviones de Pocito”<\/em> (Argentina, 2020) and Pavlovcic + Magnusson + Raczynski: “Cat\u00e1logo completo de aeronaves civiles argentinas registradas”<\/em> (Argentina, 2016). Other sources<\/strong>: Toda la Aviaci\u00f3n @ Facebook.<\/p>\n

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    One of 157 Tomahawks built in Chincul’s Pocito (S.J.) plan under Piper’s Foreign Assembly Program (line number 39), the aircraft was designated “PA-A-38-112” (the middle “-A-” denoting Argentine manufacturing) carrying c\/n AR38-78A0624 and Chincul’s peculiar line number AR-0160. Purchased by the Argentine Air Force, it was delivered under “Plan Forjando Alas” (Program “Forging Wings”, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6045,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[66,67,8,65],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-spotting","tag-photo-log-books","tag-chincul","tag-lv-register","tag-pa-38-tomahawk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/3031\/07\/JIAC-01_ed.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKRl-1yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1433,"url":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/registro-argentino-de-aeronaves-civiles-por-fin-revelado\/","url_meta":{"origin":5965,"position":0},"title":"Argentine civil aircraft register unveiled!","author":"Carlos Ay","date":"Monday 2 July 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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