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Dark-grey Boeing 737-528 serial 356 is part of the Escuadrón de Transporte 841
fleet. A new aircraft, configured for VIP/VVIP transportation, the jet was delivered
in September 1995. It serves alongside a 737-282(A), the sole survivor from a pair
built in 1983 and acquired by the FAP in 1998-99.
final stretch by the middle of the three examples had been handed
Colombia next decade. This procurement over to the Escuadrón Aéreo 112 of
Ecuador
programme for between 24 and Grupo Aéreo No 11 after work was
32 units has received proposals completed by SEMAN, with the
from various companies, including remaining aircraft expected to be
RAC MiG with the MiG-35; Sukhoi returned by the summer of 2020.
Iquitos with variants of the Su-30; Saab Also pending is the air-defence
Talara with its Gripen E/F; Dassault with and aerial surveillance programme
the Rafale, and even the Chengdu to establish a new air defence
Piura Aircraft Industry Corporation (CAIC) system comprising some 18
with its J-10. Further advanced is radars – 12 surveillance and early
the programme to purchase a lead- warning systems of 250-mile
Chiclayo in fighter training (LIFT) aircraft, (400km) range, and six surveillance
Brazil which is intended to replace the systems with a 110-155 mile (180-
A-37B and MB-339P, the latter 250km) range to cover areas of
Peru recently retired from service, with difficult topography – along with
either the KAI FA-50, Yakovlev a medium-range missile system,
Yak-130 or Leonardo M-346. man-portable air defence systems
On December 23, 2014, after (MANPADS) and an anti-ballistic
substantial delays, SEMAN and anti-missile system. Finally,
signed a US$31.99m contract with the FAP is expecting allocation
Lima Rosoboronexport for spare parts of funds for the acquisition of an
Lima-Callao and major repair services for six airborne early warning and control
Pacific Las Palmas-Lima Su-25s and four Su-25UBs. The (AEW&C) aircraft, four unmanned
Ocean
agreement includes the repair of aerial vehicles for medium-altitude
Pisco major assemblies and accessories, long-endurance (MALE) operations,
the supply of spare parts and and a command, control,
technical documentation, as well communications, computers,
Bolivia
as the overhaul of 20 Tumanski intelligence, surveillance and
R-95Sh engines. This life-extension reconnaissance (C4ISR) aircraft,
La Joya programme will allow the FAP’s which will be most likely awarded
Vitor Frogfoots to remain in service for to one of the several consortiums
another 12 years (or 1,000 flying formed by Chinese, Israeli, Russian,
hours). As of August 2019, the first Swedish and US companies. AFM

Mirage 2000P serial 050 (c/n 41)
provides close escort for serial 528, one
of the FAP’s three surviving C-26Bs. The
service received four surplus ex-USAF
examples; the first pair was delivered
in 1996, followed by two more in July
2005. One of the original deliveries
was destroyed in an accident on an
unknown date.

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