[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/europe-hors-france-30/topic/fiat-g-91-gina-1144/?post=49670#post-49670]ciders[/url] a dit le 15/05/2010 à 15:09 :[/b]

[url=http://s188567700.online.de/CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=47]Acig[/url] semble perplexe sur l'utilisation de G-91 par l'Angola.

[quote="Acig"]In the last months of the Portuguese rule, the FAP was shifting one unit after the other through Angola. In 1974, eight Fiat G.91R-4s of the Esquadra 702 were deployed in Luanda, including aircraft 5415, 5421, 5426, 5430, 5432, 5433, 5436, and 5438. These were integrated into Esquadra 93, and became operational in January 1975. Barely a month later, however, all eight were withdrawn to Portugal (six were packed – in dismounted condition – into Noratlas transports, and two into FAP Boeing 707-3F5Cs), where they formed the backbone of the Esquadron 62, based at Montijo AB. 

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Originally, this had only a handful of Do.27s left behind by the FAP at the former BA.9, but, by July 1975 additional aircraft left behind by the FAP were overhauled and rushed into service. The first unit of the Angolan Air Force was the Esquadra 11 (11th Squadron), that operated three B-26 bombers (plus two used as sources o spares), five refurbished F-84Gs (plus three used for spare parts), seven T-6Gs (plus four used for spare parts), and seven SA.316B Alouette III helicopters (plus three used as sources of spares). [b]According to contemporary US intelligence reports, this unit acquired also ten Fiat G.91R-4s (plus two used for spare parts) from the Portuguese. However, it remains unclear what was the basis for such reports: the FAP has withdrawn all of its Fiats from Angola already by February of 1975, and none are known to have been left behind – despite countless reports of the contrary[/b]. It is only possible that these “Fiats” were actually Cuban-delivered MiG-17s. The problem remains, however, that the Esquadra 11 became operational already in May and June 1975, well before Angola was officially independent, eight months before the Angolan Air Force was organized as a separate command, and five months before the first deliveries of MiG-17s from Cuba were reported. [/quote][/quote]