Tag: Chilean Air Force

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 21:14 UTC

  Chilean justice reopens 1973 bombing of the Presidential palace

  

  Retired Chilean Air Force head Fernando Matthei denied this week any knowledge of the identities of the pilots involved in the air strike that helped solidify the 1973 military coup d’etat and subsequent 17-year dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 04:46 UTC

  Chilean Air Force begins to receive 18 refurbished f-16 fighters

  

  This week Holland will be delivering 18 refurbished F-16 fighter bombers to the Chilean Air Force. The Dutch Defence ministry said the ceremony will take place at the Leeuwarden base when Lex Hendrichs, head of Dutch Defence Material will be symbolically handing his Chilean peer Jorge Rojas a scale model of the US manufactured aircraft.