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Escuela de Aviación Militar (EAM)

 

Role: Training.


The unit was formed on 10.8.1912 as Escuela Militar de Aviación and was disbanded on 23.1.1922, when Grupo 1 de Aviación was formed. The school was reformed on 26.1.1925 and was composed of Agrupación Aérea with Escuadrilla de Pilotaje and Escuadrilla de Aplicación. The unit moved to Guarnicación Aérea Córdoba and got its present name on 6.2.1937. The Agrupación Aérea is now composed of a Escuadrilla Elemental and Escuadrilla Avanzada.

 

From 1941 the flying units, Grupo Elemental, Grupo Básico and Centro de Instrucción de Aviación, were subordinated to the Agrupación de Vuelo. In 2.1943 the school was renamed Colegio Militar de Aviación and got its present name on 7.8.1944. From 9.1.1951 the flying units were part of the newly formed Grupo Aéreo Escuela, which today consists of the Escuadrón Mentor, Escuadrón Tucano and the Escuadrilla de Vuelo a Vela.

 

 

Air Bases:

Base

Duration

Base Aérea Militar El Palomar/Buenos Aires

1912 - 1937

Guarnicación Aérea Córdoba/Córdoba

1937 - Present

 

Unit Insignia:

 

Escuela de Aviación Militar

 

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