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In 1990, Cuba's Air Force was the best equipped in Latin America. During this time, the Cuban Air Force imported approximately 230 fixed-wing aircraft. Although there is no exact figure available, Western analysts estimate that at least 130 (with only 25 operational) [ 9 ] of these planes are still in service spread out among the thirteen ...
Rafael del Pino (born September 22, 1938, in Pinar del Río and also known as Rafael del Pino Diaz) is a former Cuban General of the Air Force and political dissident who defected to the United States by flying a civilian airplane from Cuba to Key West, Florida.
On 24 February 1996 a Cuban Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29UB shot down two unarmed Cessna 337 Skymaster aircraft operated by Brothers to the Rescue, an organization opposed to the Cuban government. The Organisation of American States (OAS) reported that no warning was given; Cuban government sources said "These people knew what they were doing.
A former Cuban air force MiG pilot allegedly linked to the 1996 shoot-down of two civilian planes over the Florida Straits that killed four Miamians used a humanitarian parole program to settle in ...
The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when a pilot in a Soviet-era biplane took off from the island just 90 miles south of Key West and landed on an isolated, mostly forgotten ...
Prior to the Cuban Revolution, Frank was a pilot in the Republic of Cuba Air Force. After the Revolution, Frank Castro escaped to Chicago, where he lived until the Bay of Pigs Invasion. [5] After the invasion failed, the members of brigade 2506 were held in Cuban prison until John F. Kennedy was able to negotiate their release from prison.
In 1957, Pedro Díaz Lanz joined Fidel Castro's rebel group in Santiago, Cuba. He was employed as a commercial pilot with the airline Aerovías Q. He later acted as head of the Revolutionary Air Force, and during 1958 he smuggled weapons and ammunition from Costa Rica and Florida into Cuba by air. [1]
A Soviet-era biplane that was used by a Cuban pilot to defect from his country to South Florida last month crashed Monday afternoon while government-contracted pilots were in the process of ...