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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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 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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  • "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Republic Air Force Chadian Air Force Chilean Air Force Chilean Navy Army of National Development Congolese Air Force Czechoslovak Air Force operated C-47s...
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    Air Force  Chad Chadian Air Force  Chile Chilean Army Chilean Navy  Denmark Royal Danish Air Force  Ecuador Ecuadorian Army  Egypt Egyptian Air Force...
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    United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility...
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    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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    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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