Portugal Air Force

Portuguese Air Force lost today an AlphaJet aircraft in a training exercises near Nisa city, south of Portugal, the pilot ejected saffely and had only minor injuries in a shoulder.
Portugal lost last year an F-16A and his pilot in a training exercise, and an Alouette III, his pilot and to others passengers.

Portugal Air Force operates the follwing aircrafts:

Aircraft type —————————number of aircrafts(+/-)

Sudaviation-SE 3160 Alouette III 18
Lockheed Martin F-16 A 19(*)
Dassault/Dornier Alpha-Jet 10
Marcel-Dassault Falcon 20 1
Marcel-Dassault Falcon 50 3
Lockheed C-130 H / H30 HERCULES 6
Cessna FTB-337 G 12
Casa C-212-100 AVIOCAR 22
Casa C-212-300 AVIOCAR 2
Lockheed P-3P ORION 6
Chipmunk MK 20 6
Aerospatiale SA-330 PUMA 10(**)
Epsilon-TB 30 12
ASK-21
L-23 Super Blanik

* The F-16 Squadron 201 (Falcons) has now 15F-16A and 4 F-16B, both OCU, in 1999 we received from the states 25 ex-USAF F-16, and from that 25, 20 are being chanched to the MLU standard, we already have two of them in the air. By 2008/2009 we will have 40 F-16MLU in the Portuguese Air Force.
** The 10 Puma are going to be replaced by 12 EH-101 starting July 2004, 2 EH-101 will be for fishiries protection, 2 for CSAR and 8 for SAR duties.

Some the others aircrafts types will be also replaced in a 7/15 years period, if you want to know more, make your questions and I will try to awnser.

(Sorry for some english mistakes)

AlphaFalcon