New Gendarmerie Argentina helicopters

THE AVIATION service of the National Gendarmerie Argentina (GNA) will soon receive a new Leonardo AW169 helicopter, GN-934, for general utility and border patrol missions. The service is also due to receive three new Leonardo AW119 Koala helicopters, as part of an equipment exchange. The GNA was reportedly unhappy with the standard of modernisation carried out on two Bell UH-1H Huey IIs, which are now grounded. The Argentine state will provide the three new AW119s as compensation. Juan Carlos Cicalesi