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Aircraft carriers operated by
Argentine Naval Aviation |
Argentina is one of two South American countries to have operated aircraft carriers effectively.
A significant step forward for Argentine Naval Aviation, was taken in 1958 with the purchase of the British light aircraft carrier
HMS Warrior which became the ARA Independencia.
Its first deployed unit was the F4U-5 equipped 2' Escuadrilla de Ataque, which thus became the first carrier-based squadron of any Latin American air arm.
In 1958, twenty ex US Navy Grumman F9F-2 Panther jet fighters – the Aviación Naval first jets – were delivered for use
by the 1' Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Ataque;and ten years later, an adequate tactical support force was formed with sixty Sud Fennecs
(a ground-attack conversion of the North American T-28A), which were divided between the Escuela de Aviación Naval
Sourc:http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1307/ana4.htm
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| Argentine Naval Aviation has operated by 2 aircraft carriers |
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| Photo frommembers.lycos.co.uk/brisray/dad/dindep |
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| Displacement:18,300 tons
(later 18,400 tons) |
| Launched: 20 May 1944 |
| Commissioned into the Argentina Navy: 8 July 1959 |
| Decommissioned: 1970 |
| Fate: Sold for scrap in 1971 |
| Air Crafts: 48 |
| More about ARA Independencia (V-1)
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| Displacement: 19,900 tons |
| Launched: 30 December 1943 |
| Commissioned into
Argentine Navy: 12 March 1969 |
| Decommissioned: 1997 |
| Fate: Scrapped in 1999 |
| Air Crafts: 21? |
| More about ARA Veinticinco (V-2) |
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