arrival day for the Waddington Air Show

Chile was one of the very few military operators of the Beech 99A. Nine were delivered in 1970/71 and initially flown by Grupo 11 at Quintero, the last aircraft was finally withdrawn in 2010. 308 was placed onto the civil register in March 2000 as CC-KIW for operation by the Chilean Army Aero Club and sold to a private operator in November 2003 as CC-PLL. Registered in March 2005 to Mansfield Heliflight in the US as N391MH and returned to Chile as CC-CFM with Inversiones Aereas Patagonia (Aerocord) in January 2007. Crashed and destroyed shortly after take off from Puerto Montt in July 2008.

EX RAF XH166, one of three PR.9s delivered to Chile in October 1982. One was written off in May 1983 and the two survivors are with the Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio at Los Cerrillos. 341 has been in the museums storage compound since at least 1996 and is still believed to be present there at time of upload.

Only delivered to the FACh 11 days before this photo was taken. Delivered new to Northwest Orient as N374US on 02 Aug 1967. To LAN Chile as CC-CCK on 20 Nov 1974. To The Chilean Air Force as FAC902 on 11 Nov 1982. Noted at Santiago PWFU in Apr 2010 with engines and parts missing. Since scrapped.

A bit of a misty morning at Luton. There were several Chilean Air Force visits to Luton in 1982 just after the Falklands war. It is thought the UK repaid Chilean assistance with some arms shipments. Delivered new to the FACh as 996 in June 1973 and still active in 2024. Operated by Gruppo 10.

Support transport aircraft for the Chilean A/F Display Team , The Halcones...

Photographer: Fred Guthrie.

Missing presumed w/o over Antarctic Sea 09 Dec 2019. Crashed near waypoint DRAKE. Wreckage found 11 Dec 2019 38/38 dead

Stored....taken from CC-AWC, Seat 4A

Retired between April/May 2022

Based at the time with Grupo 11 at Los Cerillos, one of 24 Pa28-236 Dakotas assembled by INDAER (now ENAER) at El Bosque in the early 1980s.

During FIDEA 2012 a number of WFU Fuerza Aérea de Chile aircraft were also presented, including this Dassault Mirage 50DCM Pantera (516). Chile had two which were by IAI updated Mirage 50DCs. The update included canards, revised, Kfir style nose and new avionics.

Practising for the ill-fated 2008, cancelled due to torrential rain and flooding