Hi Banshee;

Are you sure that one of those C-101s was bough from Chile? When was it acquired, and which was its previous identity?
It is Seneca instead of Senacre, too.
And, the photo of ‘F-86E’ was suspiciously familiar to me… 😮 This aircraft is displayed at Museo Aeronáutico of Los Cerrillos as a Canadair Sabre IV.

Regards

three PC-7s from Chilean Navy

Hammer:
I liked the article and photos. Speaking about F-15s in LatAm, their first visit in Chile was for FIDAE 1990. And if you want it, you can call F-16s as Vipers… 🙂

Some more of my photos of this airshow…

regards from Chile

The photo that says ‘Vietnam_W-3’ belongs to a radar-equipped AS.330 Puma; Super Puma/Cougar helicopters have a ventral fin under the tail. It’s hard to say which is the operator, because of the backlight…

Teams

I’ve seen one photograph of the Condores 4-ship formation – I get the impression there were many other teams formed by various Chilean squadrons at different times – very much like the ‘gold old days’ in the RAF and even here in the RCAF – when almost every squadron had a team.

Yes, there were other teams but on different decades: I’ve read about a team with AT-6s, another with T-34s, Focke Wulf Fw44 and even one using P-47s.

I enclose a scan from a good old Pillán magazine from 1987, with a drawing of a Cóndores de Plata’s F-80C and a Pitts S2A from Halcones team.

Cheers!

…and is very interesting to see that the aircraft thas going to be ‘replaced’ by F-16s in Chile was the A-37, but the Dragonfly will follow flying on the Chilean Skies, because the Mirage fleet will be -finally- disbanded after the arrival of F-16 MLUs.

Two pictures of the Harrier GR.3 preserved in Chile: the first image is of the aircraft on exhibition inside the dark Hangar de Reactores de Combate (Jet Combat hangar), the place where this aircraft is currently being displayed. The second pic shows the aircraft inside Museo Aeronáutico’s main building circa 1995.

That’s the point, Forestín; I’ve read very shortsighted opinions here, but there are ignorants all around the world…