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Old 27th Nov 2020, 16:49
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Marcantilan
 
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Originally Posted by helihub
"handed to the Navy" - presumably that means "to operate" not "as a sort of gift", given both returned to Dutch registrations at least by 1986
Exactly. Both were operating under Army control and started operating under the Navy (alongside the Alouette III ofPrimera Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Helicópteros - First Naval Helicopter Squadron) on Tierra del Fuego.

None of those helos were lost and returned after the war to their private (or public) owners.

Last Sunday, I was driving here in Buenos Aires and I pointed to my kids to an old Bell 205 and a MBB Bo-105, still painted in the orange-brown colours from the time of the war. It looks like the owner (the local NHS in this case) liked the war paint of those birds!

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