Escuela Superior Militar de Aviación "Cosme Renella"

Role: Training.

Military aviation started in 1920, when two Escuela de Aviación Militar were formed on 27.10.1920 in Guayaquil and Quito respectively, with the help of an Italian Air Mission, who brought with them a handful of airplanes and started to train Ecuadorian pilots. On 5.6.1921 the school in Quito was closed and on 12.7.1921 the Escuela de Aviación Militar "El Cóndor" and Aeródromo El Cóndor were inaugurated and became the nucleus of the Compañia de Aviación del Ejército. At the end of 1929 the EAM moved to a new airfield at Latacunga. On 3.7.1935 the EAM moved to Base Aérea Simón Bolivar/Guayaquil and became Escuela Militar de Aviación. The Escuadrón de Entrenamiento Aereo is part of the ESMA and currently operates T-34C, T-41D and MXP-650. In time of an emergency the ESMA becomes Ala 24.

Air Bases:

Base	Duration
Aeródromo Eloy Alfaro/Guayaquil	1920 - 1921
Aeródromo El Cóndor/Guayaquil	1921 - 1929
Base Aérea de Latacunga/Latacunga	1929 - 1935
Base Aérea Simón Bolivar/Guayaquil	1935 - 1942
Base Aérea Ulpiano Paez/Salinas	1942 - Present

Aircraft Used:

Type	Qty	Service	Example Serials
Aviatik (SAML) B.III	5	1920 - 1927	n/a
Ansaldo SVA.5	2	1920 - 1927	n/a
Gabardini Monoplano Gabarda	3	1920 - 1927	n/a
Macchi M18	1	1920 - 1923	n/a
Savoia S.I.A. 7	1	1920 - n/a	n/a
Travel Air 4000	2	1929 - 1932	R-1,R-2
Ryan Brougham B.5	1	1931 - n/a	Ecuador
Waco C.S.O.	1	1933 - n/a	n/a
Curtiss-Wright CW-14R Osprey	2	1933 - 1936	R-3,R-4
Curtiss-Wright CW-16E Light Sport	6	1935 - 1947	n/a
Curtiss-Wright CW-19R Sparrows	6	1936 - 1943	50,51,53,55
IMAM/Alfa Romeo Ro-37bis	8	1937 - 1941	n/a
Fairchild M62A	4	1941 - n/a	1,2,3,5
Ryan PT-22 Recruit	3	1941 - n/a	n/a
North American AT-6B/C/D Texan	4/5/9	1942 - 1957	64-81
Fairchild PT-19A/B	5/12	1943 - 1961	6-21
Vultee BT-13B Valiant	12	1944 - 1946	49-60
North American T-6D/G Texan	7/6	1953 - 1976	311-323
Beech T-34A/C Turbo Mentor	4/21	1962 - Present	0014-0034,TH-314,334,344,629
Cessna T-41A/D Mescalero	9/12	1965 - Present	433-444,835-841,845,847
Cessna A-150L Aerobat	24	1974 - Present	500-523
Aerotec MXP-650	2	2002 - Present	751,752

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