On 9 December 2019, a Chilean Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashed in the Drake Passage while en route to Base Presidente...
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The Chilean Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACh) is the air force of Chile and branch of the Chilean military. The first step towards the current...
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with its original primary customer, which for the C-130 is the United States Air Force (USAF). The C-130 is the longest continuously produced military aircraft...
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22 people and injuring 25 others. 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash: A Chilean military transport aircraft crashes while en route to Base Presidente...
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of the approximately 2,350 Lockheed C-130 Hercules production hulls have been lost, including 70 by the US Air Force and the United States Marine Corps...
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September 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2016. Butler, Declan. "Fatal helicopter crash at French Antarctic research base". Nature.com. Archived from the original...
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Galeão Air Force Base, Two KC-130H Chile Chilean Air Force Grupo de Aviación N°10 (Santiago) four KC-130R delivered in 2016. Two in service as 2019. Canada...
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January Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27SM Flanker-B Mod. 1, 86 red, c/n 36911030105, of the 23rd Interceptor Aviation Regiment, crashed near Komsomolsk-on-Amur...
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The Uruguayan Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya, abbreviated FAU) is the air service branch of the Armed Forces of Uruguay. Originally created...
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Airbus A400M Atlas (category Use dmy dates from September 2019)
granted. Chile In July 2005, the Chilean Air Force signed a Memorandum of understanding for three aircraft, but no order was placed. Chile began talks...
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Cross Chilean football team. The fuselage was found in 2015. May 10 – Air France Flight 406, a Lockheed Starliner, broke up in mid-air and crashed into...
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Brazilian air force, mobilizing all its available transport aviation, aircraft C-130, KC-390, C-97 Brasilia, C-95M Bandeirantes, CASA C-105 and C-99 were...
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List of active Bangladesh military aircraft (redirect from List of active aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force)
"World Air Forces 2021". Flightglobal Insight. 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021. Hoyle 2023, p. 13. "Bangladesh receives first of five UK-surplus C-130J transport...
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Ilyushin Il-76 (redirect from Soviet Air Force Il-76M (CCCP-86732))
on an air relief operation following the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash. On 18 October 1989, a Soviet Air Force Il-76...
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The Turkish Air Force operates a diverse fleet of aircraft, supported by a domestic aerospace industry, such as Turkish Aerospace Industries, that has...
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both civil and military operators. The C-212 was developed during the 1960s in response to the Spanish Air Force's need to replace much of its transport...
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Aircraft in fiction (redirect from C-130 Hercules in fiction)
starring Ray Milland. A formation of Hawker Hunters of the Chilean Air Force appeared in the 2004 Chilean film Machuca in which they bomb the Palacio de La Moneda...
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Hawker Hunter (section Royal Air Force)
During the 1960s and 1970s, Chile completed the acquisition of Hunters from Britain for service in the Chilean Air Force. In June 1973, the Liberian oil...
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de Tareas Antárticas) to fulfill this purpose. In 1970, the Air Force began operating C-130 Hercules aircraft into Antarctica. The Fokker F-28 Fellowship...
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Learjet 35 (redirect from Learjet C-21)
between 1973 and 1993. When used by the United States Air Force, they carry the designation C-21A. Learjet was acquired by Bombardier Aviation in 1990...
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Yak/AEM-130. In February 1996, Russia provided initial funding for the Yak/AEM-130 and pledged to purchase up to 200 aircraft for the Russian Air Force. In...
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May 2025 : 32 Chile The Chilean Navy operates three C-295 MPAs.[citation needed] Colombia The Colombian Air Force operates six C-295s; the last of...
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Area 51 (redirect from Groom Dry Lake Air Force Base)
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range in southern Nevada...
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Bulgarian Air Force Brunei Royal Brunei Air Force Cameroon Cameroon Air Force Chile Chilean Air Force Chilean Navy Colombia Colombian Aerospace Force National...
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dead. 1944 South African Air Force C-47 crash – On July 31 1944, an Douglas C-47 Skytrain operated by the South African Air Force on route from Riyan International...
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Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker (redirect from C-135 Stratotanker)
AFB, AZ. Chile Chilean Air Force operates 3 KC-135Es. It received its first KC-135E in February 2010. France French Air and Space Force operates 3...
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blir det nasjonal sørgedag". www.vg.no. August 2011. "Chile mourns as search continues for air crash bodies". BBC News. 5 September 2011. "Kenya Declares...
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Northrop B-2 Spirit (category Use American English from July 2019)
Yemen, and Iran. The United States Air Force has nineteen B-2s in service as of 2024. One was destroyed in a 2008 crash, and another was likely retired from...
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Flight 553 crashed while attempting to land, with 45 (43 on board plus 2 on the ground) fatalities; and, as of February 2024[update], Lion Air Flight 610...
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Air transports for heads of state and government are, in many countries, provided by the air force in specially equipped airliners or business jets. One...
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