page_title: FMA IA 50 Guaraní II
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: FMA IA 50 Guaraní II / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: FMA/Dinfia IA-50 Guarani II prototype at Paris Le Bourget in 1965
context_page_description: The I.A. 50 Guaraní II is an Argentine utility aircraft designed at the DINFIA in the early 1960s.
context_section_description: In June 1965 the Guarani II prototype (serial number TX-01) was exhibited and flown at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport, France).  TX-01 was later flown to the CEV (“Centre d’Essays en Vol”, Air Test Centre) at Istres, France, for technical evaluation, where it was tested for a total of 200 flying hours.  It was flown back to the FMA, Argentina in February 1966, being the first Latin American-built aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
  The last flying example, retired in 2006 at the II Brigada Aérea (IInd Air Brigade), at Paraná, Entre Rios, Argentina, is currently preserved at the National Aeronautics Museum ("Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica") of the Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Argentina), at Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
caption: The prototype Guarani II on exhibit at the 1965 Paris Air Salon
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