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Unit History


Centro de Ensayos de Vuelo (CEV)
 

Role: Flight Testing.

The unit was formed as Ensayo de Aviones en Vuelo in 1930, became Probador de Aviones en Vuelo on 6.10.1932 and got its present name on 9.11.1961.


Air Bases:
Base Duration

Guarnicación Aérea Córdoba/Córdoba

1930 - Present

Aircraft Used:
Type Qty Service Example Serials

FMA-Curtiss H750 Hawk

5

1941 - 1942

631-635
FMA I.Ae. 35 Constancia I 1 1957 - 1963 LQ-FMA
FMA I.Ae. 35 Huanquero 1 1960 - n/a LQ-GMF
FMA I.Ae. 35 Guarani I 1 1962 - 1963

LV-X23

FMA I.A. 50 Guarani II 1 1963 - 1967

LV-X27

Cessna 180 1 1967 - n/a PG-394
FMA I.A. 58A Pucará 3 1976 - 1979 A-504(1),A-510,A-519
FMA I.A. 58A Pucará 1 1977 - 1984 AX-04
FMA I.A. 58A Pucará 11 1979 - 1984

A-530,A-539,A-542-A-544-A-548,A-554

FMA I.A. 58A Pucará 1 1980 - 1984 AX-06(1)
FMA I.A. 58A Pucará 2 1982 - Present A-561,A-590
FMA I.A. 58C Pucará 1 1985 - 1995 AX-06(2)
FMA I.A. 58A Pucará 2 1988 - 1992 A-584,A-585
FMA I.A. 63 Pampa 3 1988 - 2006 EX-01-EX-03
FMA I.A. 58A Pucará 1 1998 - 1999 A-605
Beech B-45 (T-34A) Mentor 2 2002 - Present E-097,E-98
FMA AT-63 Pampa 18 2006 - Present

EX-01-EX-03

 

 

Unit Insignia:

 

Centro de Ensayos de Vuelo (CEV)

References:

  • World Air Forces Directory 2009/2010 (Ian Carroll)

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