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PICTORIAL AIRCRAFT ARGENTINA

The photo gallery at B & N presented here were obtained approximately from 1967 to 1970, on the occasion of the commemoration of Aviation Week, when there was diffusion of today and everything was in approaching a Air Base and ask if they could enter.
Fortunately, despite my young years, I decided to visit the VII Brigada Aérea Morón and I Air Brigade of the Palomar and as I mentioned in previous posts, thanks to rely on borrowed time with a basic camera Vitoret Voitglander, I could get these photographs. THEREFORE, although the picture quality is not the best, are personal memories and a testament to that time. Here photos. I hope you vtro. welcome.

BEECHCRAFT T-34 Mentor

In these pictures you can see The Beechcraft Mentor gunships, in the VII Brigada Aérea Morón, when he created the Group 7 consists of 3 squadrons namely the Mentor we see here, the helicopter squadron UH-1H/D-Hughes 369/500 and the squad in the last 15 Gloster Meteor in service. More information Mentor, in the gallery of R AVIATION EXHIBITION OF 1968

BELL UH-1H / H-14

The H14 belongs to the first batch of 6 machines received between 1967 and 1969. C / Nbr. 9523. Serial No. 67-17325. Built in 1968, photographed at the time, had an extensive career in the FAA for over 38 years, being active even into 2006.

AEROCOMANDER 500U / T-132

Air Force In 1968 Argentina became Aerocomander U500 14 machines destined for liaison and service missions of the commands of the various databases.

The T-132, pictured here in the hangar no. 2 of the VII Brigada Aérea Morón in the late '60s, by 2004 still participating in the joint operation "PRATA II" between the FAA and FAB, in the Mesopotamia Argentina with 36 years of service.

HUGHES 500C / H-26

The H-26 in the hangar when Morón Group 7 magazine in the late '60s.

C / n 49-00045M, REMP lot of belongings to 500 acquired Hughes in 1969.

DOUGLAS A-4B / C-238

Here in REMP. plane the A-4B C-238 enrolled in the platform of the VII Brigada Aérea Morón. Ex USN A-4P BuAer 142850. Unfortunately it was destroyed in an accident near Villa Reynolds on August 14, 1974, the pilot died.

C-47/DC-3 DOUGLAS - TC-20

The TC-20 was one of the last 10 C-47/DC-3 that venerable aircraft were in service until 1990. C / nbr. 20158. Aerolineas Argentinas belonged to September 1966 was transferred to the Air Force. Here you can see it in Moron to 1967/68. It was in service until December 1990. It was sold to a private Reissues Chile in 1991 and in Chile CC-CLK.

Fokker F-27 MK-600 "Friendship" / MK-400 "Troopship"

A mid-60s the Air Force Argentina faced the fleet renewal transport aircraft to replace veterans and venerable piston engine aircraft. Thus, in addition to the C-130 Hercules, was acquired in Fokker F-27 versions and Mk-400 Mk-600.

In this photograph obtained from the I Brigade of Palomar, can be seen in the background to the two F-27 Mk-600, which arrived in the country on August 8, 1968 (T-80) and August 18 , 1968 (T-79). Both machines were originally leased to a company sudafricaca for crew training. Once this task both aircraft were acquired and Reissues T-41 (ex-T-79) and T-42 (ex-T-80). In REMP. TC-77 plane (Mk-400) entered active duty in the FAA on 29 September 1969. On 29 October the same year, TC-77 made the first landing of a turboprop airplane in Antarctica, at the opening of the Marambio Base, transferring national authorities and special guests to such a significant event. was very short operational life of the TC-77, since the second landing at Marambio on December 2, 1969 crashed during landing being totally inutililizado. Considering the above mentioned dates, it became clear that this picture must be taken in October 1969, a month which is then used to make Aeronáutica.Concluyendo Weeks with TC-77 report should be mentioned that the fuselage was rescued from Marambio, being transported the continent in the hold of the C-130E, TC-62, August 1971.

DINFIA IA-50 G-II / T-112

The T-112 was the second serial device manufactured by NTRA. ex-DINFIA and entered the service in the FAA in December 1966 in the First Squadron III Brigade of Palomar. Unfortunately

December 2, 1975 an accident sub Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, totally lost.

DOUGLAS C-47 / TA-05 "The Montana"

When I got this photography in the late '60s in the I Brigade of Palomar, surely the TA-05 and was intended to National Aviation Museum, after a far-reaching, extensive and brilliant campaign Antarctic from 1964 to the creation of the Marambio Base in 1969 , which included 12 crosses the Drake Passage, two transpolar flights and 200 flight hours Antarctic.
wrote with poetic vein that characterized him, who was his commander and hero of many exploits in the white continent, the Marui Vicecomodoro Luis Olezza :
"An airplane has completed the idea. A metal complex met the spirit of Men minded air route from South of conquest, White Nation, integrated into the everyday, in a desert communicated effectively and pemanentemente to American soil. Plane: The TA-05.

First, it should replace the first attempt, which was a wonderful and tremendous failure that in 1962, when it was called the metal, TA-33.

After: because I had to do what seemed impossible. Thousands of miles across deserts, snow and ice, glaciers and frozen seas, mountain ranges inaccessible and unknown. Because I had to do more, much more than I could.

Because tens of times I was submerged, buried, covered by snow. And there qeu resurrect it. Because tens of times was frozen, stuck, imprisoned in the land of cold and storm. Because reached the Pole, because it saved lives, because they carried mail for virgin paths crossed, because he supported passage of pioneers, because it opened a route ...

TA-05 symbol. Legend rather than history. Myth rather than reality. Because your reputation is more metal skin and meat, for their fur and meat have more presence of mind to matter and metal ... "

LOCKHEED C-130 / TC-63

The Hercules C-130 TC-63, serial No. 4310, model 382c-12D-c130E, can be seen here in this picture, he joined the Air Force Argentina on December 23, 1968. Formed, together with TC-61 (under 40 years active service) and TC-62 (destroyed by a terrorist attack on August 28, 1975 in Tucumán), the batch of three new aircraft purchased from Lockheed, integrating Squadron I Transport in El Palomar.

This goes without saying that the task of Hercules in the FAA is and has ever since been very outstanding and memorable, making countless number of missions, far and wide across the country, neighboring countries and especially in the Antarctic, supplying Argentine bases, not forgetting of course the Falklands War.

Efectivente, the TC-63 was actively involved in the supply of the islands from the same April 2, 1982. When hostilities broke out, the Hercules continued to operate under an environment of extreme danger, making the voyage to the islands at low altitude over the sea strike undetected by enemy radar.
Unfortunately, on 1 June 1982, when the TC-63 on a mission of exploration and recognition on the South Atlantic, was spotted and attacked by two Sea Harrier CAP of 801 Sqn. the RAF, who had no courtesy or compassion, to finish in front of our Hercules, when he was hit by firing a missile prior Sidewinder, which had destroyed the engine no. 2, part of the plane, the flaps and the left wing.

The remembrance and tribute to our Heroes killed in combat, the HC Vicecomodoro Meisner, CE Captains RH Krause and Martel (the command of the aircraft), and Lastra SS.PP Albelo and CC.PP Cardone and Cantezano.

DOUGLAS DC-6A / TC-54

The TC-54 and a reminder of his campaign:

WHEN IN THE "national days" MORON WAS A PARTY

As can be seen at the beginning of this entry in the Aerospace August 1970 and as I said in the Pictorial of the '70s, 9 July at the VII Brigada Aérea Morón concentrated all combat and training aircraft of the Air Force Argentina, for the traditional military parade on July 9. So I took off all Mentor, Morane Saulnier, F-86F Sabre, Douglas A-4B and Gloster Meteor, the last being in 1970 Gloster participation of 14 aircraft took off when in fact only put do 13 aircraft, but that's precisely when you post a separate comment on this venerable aircraft.

Returning to the issue specifically, these photos are what could be done from "the wire" of the Base, with my photographic equipment from then until 1970/71. As I said, since 1972, I got my reflex because my first job as an employee and those Fotso are the public in the other galleries, as obtained in another color and image quality. But anyway, these photos are a lasting memory of an era perhaps unique, unfortunately, NTRA. Air Force beloved Argentina.