In a press release issued Saturday, November 7, 2015,
the Colombian Air Force, Fuerza Aerea Colombiana known locally, revealed that she had just withdrawn from active service its fleet of ground attack OV-10 Bronco.
The official ceremony, which was organized by the Grupo Aereo del Casanare (GaCaS), was held on the air base of GaCaS, located near the city of Yopal, in the center of British and allowed to withdraw officially the OV-10 Bronco last five, who had trouble flying because of the lack of spare parts.
Chaired by Colonel Hernán Ciro Espinel Luengas, commanding the GaCaS, it stated in particular that the devices "have served as essential to defeat the aggressive attacks of the enemies of the peace".
Fuerza Aérea Colombiana the received from the United States, a total of twenty-two OV-10 Bronco, which were previously in service with the US Air Force and US Marine Corps. In Colombia, these devices were used to conduct against insurgency missions including air strikes against the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), of Close Air Support to the military ground and observation missions and recognition.
Early Bronco Colombians were received in 1991 OV-10A standard, and have subsequently been amended in 2000 by the American company Marsh Aviation, through a Foreign Military Sales. According to the Colombian media Webinfomil (read the article here) modernization of the OV-10D Bronco at standard has integrated a more powerful engine, new propellers, repair the cell to fly the aircraft for 15 000 hours theft, modify and upgrade their avionics with multifunction displays, change the landing gear, etc ...
Today, spine Fuerza Aérea Colombiana of consists of a fleet of twenty Kfir. However, it also has seven A-37 Dragonfly, twenty-four EMB-314 Super Tucano, as well as a fleet of several models of helicopters, such as MD-500 ten twenty-four UH-60L Black Hawk and fifty Iroquois UH-1H.