Argentine F.M.A./DINFIA/FAdeA designations

[Apophenia]

Thanks. I'd love to know if those other engine-swaps were just test beds or did they represented potential production types. If the latter, might any of our Argentinian members know of designations?

 

[Baco]

Don´t forget IA 50 G II previously called Guaraní.

 

[Apophenia]

Don´t forget IA 50 G II previously called Guaraní.

It hasn't been forgotten - Stargazer listed the I.A .50 G II under Types developed under DINFIA (I.A. designations) in post #1.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Adding this here since it won't fit in the tags. DINFIA stands for Dirección Nacional de Fabricación e Investigación Aeronáutica. It existed from 1951 (initially known as Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado, or IAME) up until 1979, when it was shut down by the then ruling military Junta. Some more background can be found in the Wikipedia article linked below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrias_Aeronáuticas_y_Mecánicas_del_Estado

 

[Stargazer]

Adding this here since it won't fit in the tags. DINFIA stands for Dirección Nacional de Fabricación e Investigación Aeronáutica. It existed from 1951 (initially known as Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado, or IAME) up until 1979, when it was shut down by the then ruling military Junta. Some more background can be found in the Wikipedia article linked below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrias_Aeronáuticas_y_Mecánicas_del_Estado

Check out page 1 of this thread, I did explain the acronym there. However I didn't come up with quite the same dates (but it is a fact that the chronology of all those name changes is difficult to establish precisely).

 

[Grey Havoc]

Sorry for the redundancy!

 

[Erdosain]

Check out page 1 of this thread, I did explain the acronym there. However I didn't come up with quite the same dates (but it is a fact that the chronology of all those name changes is difficult to establish precisely).

Adding this here since it won't fit in the tags. DINFIA stands for Dirección Nacional de Fabricación e Investigación Aeronáutica. It existed from 1951 (initially known as Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado, or IAME) up until 1979, when it was shut down by the then ruling military Junta. Some more background can be found in the Wikipedia article linked below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrias_Aeronáuticas_y_Mecánicas_del_Estado

FAMA S.A. is missing from the list. The acronym FAMA stood for Fábrica argentina de materiales aeronáuticos (Argentine Aeronautical Materials Factory).

As part of an opening process, FMA was transformed into a public limited company (FAMA SA), being integrated in its capital by the Air Force in 46%, Aeritalia-Agusta in 44% and Techint 10% through decree No. 492/ 88 of April 22, 1988.

The brand new company had to define a plan of possible products and industrial and commercial programs to follow. These possible products involved the licensed production of the ATR-42 by Aeritalia and a medium helicopter model by Agusta, called the A-129 LBH Utility.

 

[L.Pavese]

Just checked. It can be found in several places, but here's the best one, from La enciclopedia de ciencias y tecnologías en Argentina:
http://cyt-ar.com.ar/cyt-ar/index.php/Archivo:FMA.pdfDownload can take a while though, not because it's a 25,84 MB file, but because their server appears to be very slow...

Thanks.

 

[hesham]

My dear Erdosain,

did FMA ever make a helicopter from its own design ?.

 

[Baco]

One year ago I published my book about FMA native designs:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/fabrica-militar-de-aviones-profili.44561/

 

[Erdosain]

My dear Erdosain,

did FMA ever make a helicopter from its own design ?.

Dear @hesham ,
There was never an original design because there weren't people with the expertise for such development.
The only attempts were in the 1960s, with the mass production of a Cicare helicopter, and then in the late 1980s, this partnership with Agusta to build the Utility.