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Training

 

ELOY ALFARO Military Academy, Quito (4 years, 300 cadets)

Escuela Superior de Guerra, Quito (2 years post-graduate training)[4] The Escuela de Perfeccionamiento,  Quito

            Specialist courses for officers

            Courses for conscripts to who volunteer to remain as potential NCOs

Conscript Basic Training: Units to which the conscript is assigned

Specialist schools:

Infantry

Armoured Cavalry Riobamba

Artillery

Engineer

Signals Schools

Paratroops/SF Salinas

Army Aviation School  Guayaquil

Jungle Warfare School Coca (Pto. Francisco de Orellana), Oriente.

 

army aviation

 

15th Aviation Brigade

            42nd Air Group

43rd Air Group

44th Air Group

45th air Group

46th Air Group

 

Equipment

 

3 Beech King Air/Super King Air 100/200

3 Pilatus Turbo-Porter

1 DHC-5

4 IAI Arava 201

1 Gates Learjet

2 Beech Queen Air 80 (aerial survey)

4 Cessna 172

2Cessna  185

1 206 (training and liaison)

 

4 SA.330 Puma

3 AS.332B Super Puma

20 SA.342L Gazelle

2 Aerospatiale SA.315 Lama

3 SA.350 Equreil

5 Mi-17

 

Air Force helicopters

 

5 SA.316

9 TH-57

 

[4] Field grade officers must successfully complete for senior rank and general staff.

 

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