Argentine Economy Minister and presidential hopeful Sergio Massa Monday said the arrival back in the country of the former Coast Guard British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 aircraft used in the 1970s for ...

The British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 used by Argentina's military dictatorship to throw three Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two French nuns alive into the sea in one of the so-called “death flights” ...

Flight logs revealed how 12 people were thrown out to their deaths into the Atlantic during the years of dictatorship On the night of 14 December 1977, the three pilots flew their turboprop aeroplane ...

Following the APNU+AFC government’s controversial purchase of two aged Skyvan planes in 2018, another used one of the same model arrived this week at a city wharf but it is unclear at what cost to ...

The Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) Air Corps remains mostly grounded owing to inoperable aircraft, even as repairs to the recently damaged Skyvan appear distant. Aviation sources at Timehri told ...

On this day in aviation history, 63 years ago (January 17, 1963), the Short SC.7 Skyvan flew for the first time. Nicknamed the "Flying Shoebox" due to the overall shape of the airframe, the SC.7 is a ...

Buenos Aires (AFP) – A cargo plane used by military henchmen during Argentina's "dirty war" to fly leftists over the ocean and push them to their deaths has been brought back to the country, where it ...

Yes, dear reader, you are quite right. That is a picture of a baby elephant trying to hitch a ride in a Skyvan once upon a time at planemakers Short & Harland. Now whether the tusker weighing more ...

ENGINE PROBLEMS FOCUS OF SKYVAN FATAL CRASH - A Short Brothers Skyvan SC7 operated by an air carrier crashed shortly after takeoff Nov. 8, killing a flight attendant and one passenger and injuring the ...