Thank you Pegasus,
but the Cicare CH-10 was a little known helicopter;
Helicopter Cicare CH-11. Specifications. A photo. Cicare CH-11 - Argentinean single ultra-light helicopter, developed in 1998 by the aircraft manufacturer Cicare Helicopteros SA. Cicare CH-11 photo
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Design model Cicare CH-11 ultra-light aircraft began in the middle of the Argentine aircraft manufacturers 90-ies of the last century. As a fundamental principle, aviarazrabotchiki used a little-known model helicopter Cicare CH-10, which appeared in 1993 year, however, its design has been comprehensively improved and technical part has undergone important changes, which is why the aircraft gained great opportunities, and its flight performance in largely improved.
it is hard to know the official page has after the CH-9, the CH6T as the following model developed implying up to a certain degree the CH-10 is the old CH-6T prototype with the Labala jet engine.
CICARE CH-8 UL
It is the logical consequence of the success of the CH-7. Using the same solutions than its predecessor, emerges this prototype of helicopter that is very light, two-seat, powered by two engines. The characteristics of its power plant, enables it to fly at minimum speed, with only one operative engine.
First flight: 1993
See Technical Data
CICARE CH-9
This new single-seat, two-engines powered design is characterized by a greater safety and reliability. It has a higher load capacity than the CH-7.
First flight: 1995
See Technical Data
CICARE CH-6 T
It is a redesign of the CICARE CH-6 to be powered by the Labala GFL 2000 turbine engine and this way starts with the test of this new turbine.
First flight: 1999
source
http://www.cicare.com.ar/en-helicopteros-desarrollados.html
There is an interview in CNN of Augusto Cicare
https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/argentina-metas-por-delante-helicopteros-cicare-mercado-sur/
The interview is in Spanish so I will translate what he says, he says he hopes he will live longer and God allows him to be able to fulfil his dream of new helicopter models, Cicare has a difficult situation because it is a minor player, in 2017 they sold 70 helicopters, something not bad, but in a competitive world that is nothing
https://archivo.urgente24.com/263134-pese-al-marketing-pro-cicare-no-es-el-1er-fabricante-de-helicopteros
The company RACA S.A. (Representaciones Aero Comerciales Argentinas Sociedad Anónima) was founded in August 1969 by the well-known pilot José R. Fernández Racca. Born in 1916 in San Javier, province of Santa Fe, he joined the group of Argentine professional pilots since 1939. In 1947, with the arrival of the first Sikorsky S-51 helicopters, he was attracted by these new machines and decided to specialize in them. Thus he became one of the first pilots of rotating wings of our country, when obtaining the license Nº 9 on March 20, 1952 in the remembered National School of Civil Aviation. He then expanded his habilitations to the degree of instructor (he trained more than sixty pilots) and inspector of flight of helicopters.
Initially the company RACA was dedicated to the commercialization of aeronautical products manufactured by its representatives, among them Sud Aviation, British Aircraft Corporation, Canadair, Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, Cessna, Shorts, Bell, Sino Swearingen and Hughes, selling in three more years of twenty helicopters and one hundred aircraft.
This remarkable commercial success was combined with Fernandez Racca's passion for helicopters and his extensive knowledge of the needs of the local market, giving rise to the idea that would lead him to become the first helicopter manufacturer in South America.
In 1971 RACA made an agreement with the Air Force Command of the Air Force and was established in the southeastern boundary of the then San Fernando airfield, with the express objective of developing a program of national production of helicopters under license. Shortly after, at the beginning of 1972, it signed a preliminary agreement with the Aircraft Division of the Hughes Tool Company to acquire the license to build Hughes 500 helicopters in all its versions in the country, an agreement that was finalized on December 7 of that year. . RACA S.A. He became the third Hughes licensee in the world, after Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan (1967) and Breda Nardi of Italy (1968).
RACA Hughes 500
The program approved by the Council of the Aeronautical Industry specified that one hundred and twenty helicopters would be built within eight years, with the customary progressive integration of national labor. The production, which was based on two models of the Hughes 369 series commercially known as model 500, began in 1973 with the 500C version (models 369HS / HE / HM) and as of February 1980 continued with the 500D (model 369D). The 500C had the V-tail and the four-blade main rotor, while the 500D had the T-tail and the five-blade main rotor.
When manufacturing was interrupted in 1984, some fifty units had been delivered. Twenty-five were operated in civil applications, by security forces and by INAC. Among them stand out five private companies: Acíndar (model 369HS, series A-0643-S, registration LV-LOJ), Astilleros Alianza (model 369HS, series A-0751-S, registration LV-LTL), Loma Negra (model 369HS) , series A-0708-S, registration LV-LTF), RACA (models 369HS, series A-0667-S and A-0729-S, number plates LV-LOM and LV-LTI) and Techint (model 369HS, series A- 0652-S, registration LV-LOR). It also operated with two state companies: YPF (models 369HS, series A-0568-S and A-0590-S, license plates LV-LNG and LV-LNH) and Water and Energy (models 369HS, series A-0529-S, A -0633-S and A-0655-S, license plates LV-LLP, LV-LOH and LV-LOL) and with eight provincial governorates: Corrientes (model 369HS, series A-0679-S, registration LV-LOO), Chaco and Tucumán (model 369HS, series A-0670-S, registration LQ-LON), Santa Fe (models 369HS, series A-0718-S and A-0719-S, license plates LV-LTG and LV-LTH), Santiago del Estero (model 369HS, series A-0521-S, registration LV-LLO), Córdoba (models 369HS, series A-0592-S and A-0640-S, number plates LV-LNI and LV-LOI), San Juan (model 369HS) , series A-0731-S, registration LV-LTJ) and Tierra del Fuego (model 369HS, series A-0694-S, registration LV-LOS).
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Building of the turbo-diesel engine workshop Allison, used by RACA.
The National Gendarmerie operated five helicopters (four 369HS, series A-0753-S, A-0765-S, A-0766-S and A-0816-S, license plates GN-908 to GN-911, and model 369D, series A -0765-D, license plate GN-918) and the National Institute of Civil Aviation operated four (models 369D, series A-0886-D, A-0911-D, A-0933-D and A-0974-D, plate numbers PGH -01 to PGH-04).
The Argentine Air Force used RACA aircraft model 500C, D and E. In addition, at the end of the nineties two of the INAC helicopters (PGH-01 and PGH-03) were incorporated into the Air Force and sent to Cyprus to be operated in United Nations peace missions.
Used in the most demanding conditions and in all types of performance, the RACA Hughes 500 helicopters have proven to be reliable, robust and versatile. In addition to their military uses, which are almost always extremely demanding, the 500C and 500D civilians operated in the fight against forest fires (transporting personnel and carrying a 500 liter Bambi Bucket bucket), in high mountain rescues, in glaciological flights over Antarctica , in flights for Greenpeace, in rescue missions of populations isolated by floods (in Santa Fe it was possible to transport up to eleven people per flight, between children and adults), etc.
It is worth noting that three 500C civil helicopters were incorporated into the Malvinas War effort, operating in the continental territory at the Army Aviation service (LV-LLP, LV-LOM and LV-LTG). They were the only helicopters of national manufacture that flew in the Malvinas Operations Theater.
In the manufacture of the 500 model RACA achieved a national workforce application of 85% of the total needed to build the helicopter structure. This included the cutting, bending, shaping, drilling and assembling of the sheet metal components, as well as the riveting and gluing of all the components that made up the complete semi-monocoque structure, the tail cone and the stabilizers. All the parts and fairings of composite materials, the transparent area, the complete interior, as well as the metal parts of the main rotor were also manufactured.
Helico
In 1980, RACA developed a military version of the 500C model (369HM), in a program that it named Helico (Light Combat Helicopter). It was destined to operate as an aerial vehicle for reconnaissance and attack against land targets, with the possibility of using it also as an antitank and anti-submarine system. The remarkable thing about this design is that the modification of the cell was designed and developed by RACA's own technical office, while all the equipment and guns were developed by the national company Munex S.R.L.
The first tests were done on two Air Force 369HM Hughes (number plates H-24 and H-25), but after some tests it was concluded that these helicopters were not suitable, since the external loads penalized them such a point that their performance