{"id":3243,"date":"2019-01-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T11:53:07","slug":"colombia-receives-airbus-as365n3-dauphin-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"Colombia receives Airbus AS365N3 Dauphin helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" class=\"wp-image-3244\" style=\"width: 1200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-01-02-Colombia-receives-Airbus-AS365N3-Dauphin-helicopters.jpg\" alt=\"Colombia receives Airbus AS365N3 Dauphin helicopters\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-01-02-Colombia-receives-Airbus-AS365N3-Dauphin-helicopters.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-01-02-Colombia-receives-Airbus-AS365N3-Dauphin-helicopters-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-01-02-Colombia-receives-Airbus-AS365N3-Dauphin-helicopters-768x380.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br><em>One of the two Airbus AS365N3 Dauphins (ARC 252) being delivered to Colombia this month wears the livery of the DIMAR (Direcci\u00f3n Maritima), which is the country\u2019s civil maritime administration. The DIMAR is dependant on the country\u2019s defence ministry and managed by an admiral, as the budget for it was supplied by the defence ministry. (Photo by Colombian Navy).<\/em><br><br><strong>The Colombian Navy is set to receive two recently purchased Airbus AS365N3 Dauphin helicopters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dauphins have already been assembled at Guaymaral civil airport in Bogot\u00e1, painted in Colombian colours with serial numbers ARC 251 and 252, and are expected to be delivered on 7 January to the Grupo Aeronaval del Caribe (the Colombian Navy\u2019s Caribbean Naval Air Group).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The helicopters will operate from Barranquilla Naval Aviation Base, but their main mission will be to operate from the Colombian Navy\u2019s ARC 20 de Julio-class offshore patrol vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both helicopters were purchased in Portugal but had operated in Brazil, where ARC 251 was serialled PR-HJR and ARC 252 was at first PR-HJS and later CS-HIP. The Colombian Navy initially plans to equip them with a new Telephonics APS-143C V3 synthetic aperture radar, with subsequent upgrades looking to introduce the carriage of sonobuoys and torpedoes to provide an anti-submarine warfare capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Bell 412 helicopters currently with the Grupo Aeronaval del Caribe cannot fit into the hangars of the Colombian Navy\u2019s Almirante Padilla-class frigates, the Dauphins will also increase the capacity of those ships for embarked operations, replacing retired Bo-105, the BK-117, and Fennec rotorcraft. The wheeled landing gear of the Dauphins also makes deck operations easier compared to the skid undercarriages of the types they are replacing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> JANES News by Santiago Rivas &#8211;<\/em> <em>02 January 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Antonio Gonzalez<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">MEXICO XairForces Editor<\/a>)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/america.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"LATIN AMERICAN AIR FORCE\">LATIN AMERICAN AIR FORCE<\/a> AND <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">AVIATION NEWS<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the two Airbus AS365N3 Dauphins (ARC 252) being delivered to Colombia this month wears the livery of the DIMAR (Direcci\u00f3n Maritima), which is the country\u2019s civil maritime administration. The DIMAR is dependant&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1670,19,1699,1724,175,7,1658,1657,1659,30],"tags":[615,3304,3309,3307,3310,3303,3306,337,3308,3305,3299,3300,3302,220,3301],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}