TG-REI: A Guatemalan Mustang
Ever since I was a child airplanes have fascinated me, and that does not come hard to explain as my father has many hours…
Book: Grumman S-2 no Brasil
This book’s title is a bit misleading, and not in a bad way. Even though it documents the history of the beautifully ugly Grumman S-2…
Bellanca War Planes of Latin America
Guiseppe M. Bellanca came to the United States in 1911 with a degree in engineering and little else. By 1927, he had founded Bellanca…
The Cuban MiGs
The term “MiG” has become virtually synonymous with “Russian fighter.” Indeed, when U.S. Navy F-14s downed two Libyan Su-22s, many commentators unintentionally rubbed salt…
The Saga of the Paraguayan and Brazilian Privateers
Towards the end of the 1950s, a strange four-engined aircraft landed at the Aeropuerto Internacional de Asunción. It was a North American bomber from…
The Caproni Ca.114 in Peruvian Service
The frantic rearming process that followed the cease of fire of May, 1933, which put to an end the hostilities between Perú and neighboring…
Hijacking of a Cubana IL-18
The Cubana de Aviación IL-18 aircraft, with dozens of passengers on board, departed Santiago de Cuba for Havana, on March 27, 1966. It was…
The Tale of “TG-CUS-C”
The photo accompanying this post was shared with us by our friend and superb aviator Luis Carlos Samayoa and is part of his father’s…
The Strange Incident of HK-919P
During the night of Sunday, May 16, 1999, a twin-engine Cessna 310, flown by drug traffickers, had to make an “emergency” landing at La…
The Curtiss Made in Chile
The Hawk and Falcon aircraft types stood out as cutting-edge prototypes of their time. Some even participated in the Chaco War between Bolivia and…