Description

This third monograph in the “Airplanes with History” series tells the story of the Dassault Mirage M-5MA Elkan No. 705 of the Chilean Air Force. In twenty-four pages, details of its construction and service for the Belgian Air Force (FAB) up to its service in the Chilean Air Force (FACh) are published. This Mirage operated almost twenty years in the FAB as M-5BA BA-37 in No. 1 Squadron and was withdrawn from service in 1989. In 1994 it was modified by SABCA to MirSIP standard to be sold to the FACh as M-5MA Elkan No. 705. The FACh assigned them to Aviation Group No. 8, based primarily at the Cerro Moreno Air Base, Antofagasta. In 2005, it participated in the CEIBO exercise, carried out in Argentina, at the Plumerillo Air Base, Mendoza. Spanish text and captions.