Argentine Naval Aviation

Argentine Naval Aviation
Comando de la Aviación Naval Argentina
Argentine Naval Aviation patch
Active1916 – present
Country Argentina
BranchArgentine Navy
TypeNaval aviation
Sizec. 20 aircraft
Part ofNavy
Ministry of Defense
EngagementsFalklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) Gulf War
Websiteargentina.gob.ar/aviacionnaval
Commanders
Commander-in-ChiefPresident
Chief of Staff of the NavyAdmiral
Chief of COANRear Admiral Eduardo Miguel Tourné[1]
Insignia
Roundel
Former roundel

The Argentine Naval Aviation (Spanish: Comando de la Aviación Naval Argentina, COAN) is the naval aviation branch of the Argentine Navy and one of its four operational commands. Argentina, along with Brazil is one of two South American countries to have operated two aircraft carriers.

The acronym CANA is often used in English language bibliographies,[2][3] but is not correct Spanish usage.

  1. ^ "Comandante de la Aviación Naval". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). 3 April 2020. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  2. ^ Christopher Chant (2001). Air War in the Falklands 1982. Bloomsbury USA. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-84176-293-7.
  3. ^ 5myGRpteiEQC. Archived from the original on 21 June 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2014.

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