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The Guatemalan Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Guatemalteca or FAG) is a small air force and antiquated air force. It has relied mostly on US aircraft types throughout its history, most of them by now obsolete in terms of what a modern air force should be. The P-51 Mustang, C-47 Dakota, Lockheed T-33 Bell UH-1 "Huey", Bell 206 and Bell 212 helicopters are typical examples of their equipment. The Cessna A-37 is the main jet aircraft, while Pilatus PC-7s are used for training. Some Fokker F-27 and IAI Aravas help with the transport roles, augmenting the C-47 Dakotas mentioned before. The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American long-range single-seat fighter aircraft that entered service with Allied air forces in the middle years of World War II. The P-51 became one of the conflicts most successful and recognizable aircraft. ...
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The most widely used military helicopter in the world, The Bell UH-1 series Iroquis named after an Native American Indian tribe, but more popularly known as Huey was manufactured by Bell Helicopter Textron in the 1950s to served in the infamous Vietnam War. ...
The Bell Helicopter Model 206 JetRanger is a two-bladed main rotor, turbine powered helicopter with a conventional, two-bladed tail rotor. ...
The Bell 212 Twin Huey (also known as the Twin Two-Twelve) is a medium civilian helicopter that first flew in 1968. ...
T-37s in formation One of the most prominent of the trainer-attack type aircraft is the Cessna T-37/A-37, known in various forms as the Tweety Bird, Tweet, Dragonfly, or Super Tweet. ...
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The FAG is formally a subordinate to the Guatemalan Military. It's commanding officer reports directly to the Commander in Chief of the Army, the President. The FAG is composed of three "wings": The "Ala Fija", operating all fixed-wing aircraft, the "Ala Rotativa", operating all the helicopters, and the "Ala Mantenimiento" performing all the maintenance. The aircraft are divided over these wings, and the wings themselves operate out of four bases throughout the country, without a fixed allocation of units to bases. The principal base is La Aurora in Guatemala City, which also happens to be the country's major airport. All major attack, transport, liaison and helicopter squadrons are based there. The other base with a seemingly fixed presence is at Retalhuleu, where the "Escuela Militar de Aviación" (Military School of Aviation) can be found. The other two bases, one at Santa Elena, Petén and San José, Escuintla probably house detachments of the units mentioned above. Guatemala is a signatory to the Rio Pact and is a member of the Central American Defense Council (CONDECA). ...
The title of President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1851, when that title was assumed by José Rafael Carrera, who had been acting as head of government as general and caudillo since 1840. ...
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Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; locally known as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. ...
El Petén El Petén is a department of the nation of Guatemala. ...
Escuintla (sometimes spelled Esquintla) is a small city in south central Guatemala. ...
Although the role of the FAG has been much diminished since the Peace Treaty was signed in 1996, they have served the country when disaster has struck, most notably after the Mitch and Hurricane Stan. During these disasters, helicopters where used to rescue stranded people, and cargo planes were used to carry food, water and emergency medical equipment to villages and remote places that had been cut-off. Lowest pressure 905 mbar (hPa; 26. ...
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Currently, the FAG doesn't have any acquisition programs. The main concern is keeping the current fleet airborne, and all resources are aimed at that objective.
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The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, commonly (or officially in the USMC) known as the Huey, was a multipurpose military helicopter, famous for its use in the Vietnam war. ...
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The Bell Helicopter Model 206 JetRanger is a two-bladed main rotor, turbine powered helicopter with a conventional, two-bladed tail rotor. ...
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The Bell 212 Twin Huey (also known as the Twin Two-Twelve) is a medium civilian helicopter that first flew in 1968. ...
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The 8KCAB Decathlon and Super Decathlon are two-seat fixed conventional gear light airplanes designed for flight training and personal use and capable of sustaining aerobatic stresses (+6/-5g). ...
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Cessna 172RG 1964 Cessna 172E 1965 Cessna F172G 1971 Cessna 172 The early Cessna 172 Skyhawks had no rear window and featured a square fin design, like this 1957 model 1977 Cessna 172XP 1977 Cessna 172M Cessna 172R Panel of C-GLFC The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat...
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The Cessna 205, 206, and 207, known variously as the Skywagon, Super Skywagon, and Stationair is a development of the popular Cessna line of high-wing, single-engine piston aircraft used for general aviation. ...
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Cessna 210 Centurion Cessna T210L A Cessna T210L shows the designs strutless cantilever wing A Cessna P210N Pressurized Centurion with its distinctive small windows The Cessna 210 Centurion is a 6 seat, high-performance, single-engine general aviation aircraft which was first flown in January 1957. ...
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The Cessna T-37/A-37, known in various forms as the Tweety Bird, Tweet, Dragonfly, or Super Tweet, is one of the most prominent of the trainer-attack type aircraft. ...
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The Douglas DC-3 is a fixed-wing, propeller-driven aircraft, which revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s and is generally regarded as one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made (also see Boeing 707 and Boeing 747). ...
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ENAER T-35 Pillán (Devil) is a Chilean prop-driven basic trainer. ...
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The PA-31 Navajo was designed by Piper Aircraft to fill a gap in their product line; a large twin aircraft using Lycoming engines for the general aviation market was sorely needed in the mid-1960s, and founder W.T. Piper requested the type be developed. ...
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Strategy The biggest strategic advantage that sets the FAG apart from other countrys' air forces is their unique concept of flying around a battle in order to take it up the rear of an airborne situation to gain the advantage in combat.
Another tactic the air force has adopted is their unique use of varying the amount of aircraft in a battle. In order to preserve their only airworthy aircraft, the GAF has adopted the "In, Out, In, Out" strategy in which a group of aircraft will go into the battle, then pull out to preserve fuel as a new group of aircraft subtitute them.
Current State of the Fleet The Guatemalan air force has suffered from an arms embargo from the US since the 80s. During any given time, around 30% of the fleet is airworthy, due to lack of spares and insufficient funds. There are no reliable radar and other electronic equipment in service and no anti air defense beyond a few very old anti aircraft artillery pieces.
Most of the aircraft are obsolete and unreliable. Such is the case for the A-37s, T-33s, the Aravas and half of the helicopter fleet. Plans for modernization have not been published and are most likely non existent.
The Guatemalan air force is almost completely incapable of defending the sovereignty of the country's airspace. Thousands of aircraft have illegally flown into Guatemala delivering drugs from Colombia without the air force even knowing it. The ones detected somehow by the air force have not been dealt with properly or even intercepted.
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