Category: Latin America

Final Airbus SC-105 (C-295MPA) handed to Brazil 0

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Final Airbus SC-105 (C-295MPA) handed to Brazil

Brazil the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) received its third and final Airbus SC-105 Amazonas search and rescue (SAR) aircraft on December 9, during a handover ceremony at Seville, Spain. Brazilian Air Force personnel pose...

Ex-ltalian Coast Guard AB412 lands in Uruguay 0

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Ex-ltalian Coast Guard Agusta-Bell 412CP Grifone lands in Uruguay

Uruguay’s Ministry of National Defence announced on August 14 that the first of two Agusta-Bell 412CP Grifone helicopters acquired for the Uruguayan Navy had arrived in Montevideo. Still shrink-wrapped following its delivery voyage, the...

Alarus CH-2000 Antarqui delivered to Peruvian Air Force 0

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Another Alarus CH-2000 Antarqui delivered to Peruvian Air Force

An Additional SEMAN Alarus CH-2000 Antarqui, serial number 492, has been completed by the Peruvian Air Force Maintenance Service (SEMAN) and was flight tested on July 9. Newly completed Peruvian Air Force SEMAN Alarus...

Brazilian Navy H125 VERTREP 0

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Brazilian Navy – Return to base after another successful Antarctic campaign

A very special photo was taken on the 8th of April in the Brazilian Navy’s base at Sao Pedro da Aldeia. Two H125s (AS355) that had participated in the Antarctic campaign were welcomed in-flight...

Panama receives six UH-1H Huey II helicopters 0

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Panama receives six UH-1H Huey II helicopters

Six Bell UH-1H(S) Iroquois (UH-1H Huey II) helicopters have been delivered to Panama by the US government as part of the Merida Initiative – a security co-operation agreement to combat drug-trafficking, transnational organised crime...

Guyana gets Short SC.7 Skyvan 3s 0

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Guyana gets Short SC.7 Skyvan 3s

A pair of second-hand Short SC.7 Skyvan 3 Variant 100s has been delivered to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Air Corps after being acquired from an operator in the UK. Newly acquired Guyana Defence...

Ansat type civilian helicopter 0

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Russian Helicopters participate in SITDEF 2019

Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Coropration) will participate in the Seventh International Exhibition of Technology for Defense and Prevention of Natural Disasters SITDEF-2019 held in the territory of the headquarters of the...

US Navy Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) 0

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As Venezuela tensions mount, US to deploy hospital ship to region

As tensions with Venezuela mount, the United States is planning to announce on Tuesday the deployment of a military hospital ship to the region, U.S. officials say, in the latest sign of the Pentagon’s...

More Salvadoran MD500E Guardiancillos arrive for MINUSMA mission 0

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More Salvadoran MD500E Guardiancillos arrive for MINUSMA mission

Additional MD500E Guardiancillo light attack helicopters of the Fuérza Aérea Salvadoreña (FAS, El Salvador Air Force) have arrived in Gao, Mali, for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). They were...

Colombian Air Patrol aircraft MXP-740 crashed 0

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Colombian Air Patrol aircraft MXP-740 crashed

Patrulla Aérea Colombiana/Seccional Antioquia AeroAndina MXP-740 Savannah HJ-111 crashed while attempting an emergency landing on December 12. (Photo by AirForces Monthly) Both occupants were killed and this Colombian Air Patrol aircraft destroyed when the...