Argentine Air Forces in The Falklands War - Casualties and Aircraft Losses

Casualties and Aircraft Losses

• Human losses:
  • 6 Army aviation
  • 4 Naval aviation
  • 55 Argentine Air Force members
    • 29 pilots
    • 12 air crew (6 on C-130H shot down June 1, 4 on Learjet LJ-35A shot down June 7 and 2 Canberra navigators)
    • 14 Ground crew

• Aircraft Lost in the Air: _{no suffix: Air Force}

Argentine strike aircraft did not carry air-to-air missiles, with the exception of 8th Air Brigade Mirage IIIEA fighters and 6th Air Brigade Daggers on May 1. All retained a secondary armament of either 20 mm or 30 mm cannon.

• Destroyed on the ground
  • 9 FMA IA 58 Pucará
  • 1 Agusta A109 Army
  • 1 Boeing Ch-47C Chinook Army
  • 2 Aérospatiale Puma SA330L Army
  • 4 Beechcraft T-34 Mentor Navy
  • 2 Skyvan 3-M Coast Guard
  • 2 Bell UH-1H Iroquois Army

• Captured after the war
  • 11 FMA IA 58 Pucará
  • 2 Agusta A109 Army
  • 7 Bell UH-1H Iroquois Army
  • 1 Boeing CH-47C Chinook Army
  • 1 Aérospatiale Puma SA330L Coast Guard
  • 3 Aermacchi MB.339A Navy
  • 2 Bell 212

• Lost with ARA General Belgrano
  • 1 Aérospatiale Alouette AI03 Navy

• Flying accident in the war zone
  • 1 Westland Lynx HAS.Mk.23 Navy — 2 May, hit ARA Santísima Trinidad
  • 2 FMA IA 58 Pucará — 28 May, hit ground, recovered in 1986, 24 May.
  • 1 Aermacchi MB.339A Navy — 3 May, bad weather crash
  • 2 McDonnell Douglas A-4C Skyhawk — 9 May, South Jason Island

• Total

75 fixed-wing aircraft and 25 helicopters.