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NAeL Minas Gerais (pennant number A 11) was a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier operated by the Marinha do Brasil (MB, Brazilian Navy) from 1960 until 2001.The ship was laid down for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy during World War II as HMS Vengeance, was completed shortly before the war's end, and did not see combat.
FAB P-16 Tracker planes on the deck of the NAeL Minas Gerais after the dispute was resolved. The embarked aviation issue (or embarked aviation problem) was a dispute between the Brazilian Navy (MB) and the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) over the aircraft that would operate on board the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais, acquired in 1956.
Naval Aviation can be classified into embarked air wings; organic aircraft from warships; marine corps aviation and land-based naval aviation. [2] Even smaller classes of ships, such as those for river patrols, can operate helicopters, [3] but only the aircraft carrier class or Navio-Aeródromo (NAe), in the Brazilian Navy terminology, also operates airplanes, having aircraft as its raison d ...
Minas Gerais was the last of the Second World War-era light aircraft carriers to leave service, and at the time of her decommissioning was the oldest active aircraft carrier in the world. [ 8 ] [ 68 ] The carrier was marked for sale in 2002, and was actively sought after by British naval associations for return to England and preservation as a ...
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English: The Brazilian aircraft carrier NAeL Minas Gerais (A11) underway at sea, in October 1996. She was in service between 1960 and 2001, and scrapped in India in 2004. The Minas Gerais was the last of the Colossus-class and launched by Swan Hunter (UK) as HMS Vengeance (R71) in February 1944. She was completed too late to see action in WW2.
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