Air forces in the Falklands War
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This is a list of units, aircraft and casualties of the Argentinian and British air forces in the Falklands War.
Contents
Argentina
Argentine Air Force
- 1st Air Brigade - Lockheed KC/C-130 Hercules, Boeing 707, Fokker F-28 and Fokker F-27
- 2nd Air Brigade - English Electric B.Mk62 Canberra
- 3rd Air Brigade - FMA IA 58 Pucara
- 4th Air Brigade - McDonnell Douglas A-4B Skyhawk
- 5th Air Brigade - McDonnell Douglas A-4C Skyhawk
- 6th Air Brigade - IAI Dagger
- 7th Air Brigade - CH-47 Chinook and Bell 212 helicopters
- 8th Air Brigade - Dassault Mirage IIIEA
- Escuadrón Fénix - Learjet 35A-L and civilians
Argentine Navy
- 1st Naval Air Attack Squadron - Aermacchi MB-339
- 2nd Naval Air Fighter/Attack Squadron - Dassault Super Étendard
- 3rd Naval Air Fighter/Attack Squadron - McDonnell Douglas A-4Q Skyhawk
- Naval Air Antisubmarine Squadron - S-2E Tracker
- Naval Air Training Squadron - Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
- Naval Air Exploration Squadron - SP-2H Neptune
- 1st Naval Air Helicopter Squadron - Alouette AI03
- 2nd Naval Air Helicopter Squadron - SH-3 Sea King
- Naval Air Transport Squadrons - Lockheed L-188 Electra and Fokker F-28
Argentine Army
- 601 Army Aviation Battalion - CH-47 Chinook, Agusta A109, Bell UH-1 Huey and Aérospatiale Puma
Argentine Coast Guard
- Aviation Service - Aérospatiale Puma and Short Skyvan
United Kingdom
Army Air Corps
Royal Marines
Fleet Air Arm
- No. 737 NAS - (Wessex III)
- No. 800 NAS - (Sea Harrier Mk I)
- No. 801 NAS - (Sea Harrier Mk I)
- No. 809 NAS - (Sea Harrier Mk I)
- No. 815 NAS - (Lynx Mk II and III)
- No. 820 NAS - (Sea King Mk II)
- No. 824 NAS - (Sea King Mk II)
- No. 825 NAS - (Sea King Mk II)
- No. 826 NAS - (Sea King Mk V)
- No. 829 NAS - (Wasp Mk I)
- No. 845 NAS - (Sea King Mk IV)
- No. 846 NAS - (Sea King Mk IV)
- No. 847 NAS - (Wessex V)
- No. 848 NAS - (Wessex V)
- No. 848 NAS - (Wessex V)
- No. 899 NAS - (Sea Harrier Mk I)
Royal Air Force
- No. 1(F) Squadron - (Harrier GR3)
- No. 18 Squadron - (Chinook)
- No. 29 Squadron - (F-4 Phantom)
- No. 42 Squadron - (Nimrod)
- No. 44 Squadron - (Vulcan)
- No. 54 Squadron - (Vulcan)
- No. 55 Squadron - (Victor)
- No. 57 Squadron - (Victor)
- No. 70 Squadron - (C-130 Hercules)
- No. 101 Squadron - (Vulcan)
- No. 120 Squadron - (Nimrod)
- No. 201 Squadron - (Nimrod)
- No. 202 Squadron - (Sea King)
- No. 206 Squadron - (Nimrod)
Casualties and aircraft losses
- Argentina:
- * Dead:
- ** 6 Army
- ** 4 Navy
- ** 41 Argentine Air Force
- * Aircraft Lost
- ** 10 A-4B Skyhawk
- ** 9 A-4C Skyhawk
- ** 3 A-4Q Skyhawk Navy
- ** 1 C-130 Hercules
- ** 2 Canberra
- ** 1 Learjet 35
- ** 2 Mirage IIIEA
- ** 11 IAI Dagger
- ** 2 Aermacchi MB-339 Navy
- ** 24 Pucara
- ** 3 Agusta A109
- ** 9 Bell UH-1 Huey
- ** 2 Chinook
- ** 5 Aérospatiale Puma Army
- ** 1 Aérospatiale Puma Coast Guard
- ** 3 Aermacchi MB-339
- ** 4 Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
- ** 2 Bell 212
- ** 2 Skyvan 3-M
- United Kingdom
- * Dead:
- ** 2 Army Air Corps
- ** 5 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron Royal Marines
- ** 5 Fleet Air Arm
- ** 1 Royal Air Force
External links
- [British site about Argentine Aircraft lost]
- [Britains Small Wars.com]:
- [Argentine Air Force (FAA) official site about the Malvinas/Falkland Air War]
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| Military forces | Argentine ground forces | British ground forces | Air forces | Argentine naval forces | British naval forces | ||
| Timeline | Background | Invasion | Falklands War | ||
| Battles | Goose Green | Mount Harriet | Two Sisters | Mount Longdon | Mount Tumbledown | Wireless Ridge | ||
| Operations | Algeciras | Canbelow | Corporate | Black Buck | Keyhole | Paraquat | Purple Warrior | Rosario | Sutton | ||
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