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Location: State: Code Base name Operative Note Curitiba: PR: Bacacheri Air Force Base: 1942-1980: Became Bacacheri Airport: Recife: PE: BARF: Recife Air Force Base: 1941-2024: Became exclusively Recife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport
The Brazilian Air Force (Portuguese: Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) is the air branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces and one of the three national uniformed services. The FAB was formed when the Brazilian Army and Navy air branches were merged into a single military force initially called "National Air Forces" in 1941.
An increasing percentage of the ranks are "long-service" volunteer professionals; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in the early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps. [9]
The company is the second largest airline holding in Latin America by revenue and fleet size after LATAM Airlines Group based in Santiago, Chile.With a fleet of 173 aircraft and more than 19,000 employees, Avianca serves over 100 destinations in America and Europe, which connect to over 750 destinations worldwide through codeshare agreements with partner airlines.
São Paulo Air Force Base was created on 22 May 1941 by Decree 3,302 at Campo de Marte Airport. On 26 January 1945 the base was transferred to its present location, then called Cumbica Farm. On 26 January 1945 the base was transferred to its present location, then called Cumbica Farm.
The Brazilian Army (Portuguese: Exército Brasileiro; EB) is the branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible, externally, for defending the country in eminently terrestrial operations and, internally, for guaranteeing law, order and the constitutional branches, subordinating itself, in the Federal Government's structure, to the Ministry of Defense, alongside the Brazilian Navy and Air Force.
The Brazilian Army Combatant NCO Academy (ESA) is a Higher Education Establishment of the Brazilian Army, responsible for training its combatant non-commissioned officers (NCO), in Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps.
The aircraft carrier São Paulo was built in France between 1957 and 1960, and served in the French Navy as Foch.In September 2000, she was purchased by Brazil for US$12 million [6] – no aircraft were included in the price – to replace the aged World War II-era carrier Minas Gerais, which had been in commission for over 40 years.