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    Airframe Family: Fabrica Militar de Aviones (FMA) IA-58 Pucara / IA-66
    Latest Model:IA-58A Pucara
    Last Military Serial:ZD487 RAE
    Construction Number:050
    Compressed ID:Fabrica Militar de Aviones (FMA) IA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an IA-58A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Argentina with s/n A-549.

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Yeovilton.

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Yeovilton.

    1982

    Captured during the Falklands War and transported to the UK.

    1982

    Placed on display with Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    30 July 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day arrivals

    November 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n ZD487.

    After November 1982

    Along with other Pucaras used to make one example airworthy for testing and evaluation.

    By August 1986


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK.

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    Airframe not complete due to use in making another airframe airworthy in the early 1980s.
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    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
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    Robert Nichols
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