Every war the Colombian Aerospace Force has fought
The war with Peru in 1932–1933 is the only war with a neighbour in this record, and its air-to-air claims are each side’s accounts. Most of the record is the internal armed conflict with the FARC, the ELN and successor groups. The 2008 strike at Angostura lay about 1.8 km inside Ecuador: President Uribe called it a step against terrorism that “does not respect borders”, President Correa an aggression, and Ecuador broke relations. Of the strikes resumed in 2025–2026, the Ombudsman and Medicina Legal reported minors among the dead, the government holds that they were lawful operations against groups that recruit children, and courts have set precautions that the government has appealed. Where a consolidated sortie or loss figure exists in the official record it is given here; where accounts disagree, the range is shown and the disagreement named. Blank cells are blank because no figure could be verified, not because the fighting was small.
From the Leticia war with Peru in 1932–1933 to the air strikes of 2025–2026.
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| Colombia–Peru Warthe Leticia warAviación Militar (Colombian military aviation) | 1932–1933 | Peru | Curtiss Hawk II, Curtiss Falcon, Curtiss-Wright Ospreyさらに2人 | 4 | ||
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Built an air arm almost from nothing to support river flotillas and bomb Peruvian garrisons. On 1 September 1932 Peruvian civilians and soldiers occupied Leticia. Colombia then had eleven instructors, four CW-14R Ospreys and one Falcon. Congress paid for a crash programme: four Junkers F 13s, four W 34s, three K 43s, six Ju 52s, two Dornier Merkurs, four Dornier Wal flying boats, 20 Falcon F-8Fs and 30 Hawk IIs. German pilots of the SCADTA airline, led by Herbert Boy, flew many of them. On 14 February 1933 Peruvian aircraft attacked the Colombian flotilla at Tarapacá; Spanish Wikipedia says three Colombian Hawk IIs drove them off and Colombian bombers dropped 12 heavy and 47 light bombs on the garrison the same day. On 26 March eleven Colombian aircraft bombed Güepí. The last air action, on 8 May 1933 over the Peruvian seaplane base at Río Algodón, ended with the Peruvian pilot Américo Vargas shot down, according to Wikipedia. 結果 Ceasefire under League of Nations mediation on 24 or 25 May 1933 (sources differ); the Rio de Janeiro Protocol of 24 May 1934 confirmed Colombian sovereignty over Leticia. Air-to-air claims are drawn from Wikipedia and are each side’s accounts; Spanish Wikipedia notes conflicting versions of whether Colombian aircraft were shot down. The Peruvian aircraft claimed on 18 February 1933 at Chavaco Island and the identity of the aircraft lost on 8 May could not be confirmed from primary sources.
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| Second World War coastal patrolsCaribbean patrolsAviación Militar | 1941年～1945年 | ドイツ | Curtiss Falcon, North American AT-6 Texan | |||
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Patrolled the Caribbean coast after Colombia broke with the Axis; no combat with enemy forces is recorded. Colombia broke relations with the Axis powers in December 1941. On 23 June 1942 a German submarine sank the Colombian schooner Resolute about 50 miles north-west of San Andrés. A patrol squadron flew the Falcons along the coast and replaced them in 1943 with AT-6 Texans, staying active until 1945. 結果 Patrols ended in 1945. No Colombian attack on a submarine is recorded in the sources checked. Colombia’s later Korean War contribution (1951–1954) was an infantry battalion and three frigates, with no air component recorded.
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| Internal armed conflictFARC, ELN and successor groupsColombian Air Force / Colombian Aerospace Force | 1964年～ | FARC-EP, ELN, FARC dissident fronts and Other armed groups | A-37B, T-37C, OV-10さらに5人 | |||
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Close air support, bombing of guerrilla camps, night gunship work, helicopter assault, transport and surveillance. For most of its existence the air force’s war has been at home. Through the 1980s and 1990s A-37s, T-37Cs, Broncos and improvised DC-3 gunships supported the army against the FARC and ELN; Plan Colombia from 2000 added radars, surveillance aircraft and helicopter mobility. The Super Tucano flew the type’s first combat mission on 18 January 2007, and precision strikes killed three members of the FARC secretariat: Raúl Reyes in Ecuador in 2008 (see Operation Phoenix), Mono Jojoy in Operation Sodoma in September 2010 and Alfonso Cano in Operation Odiseo in 2011, when five Super Tucanos bombed his camp. On 2 July 2008 Operation Jaque freed 15 hostages, including Íngrid Betancourt. After the 2016 accord armed groups regrouped; the Defence Minister said in September 2026 that they had grown from about 15,000 to about 29,000 members in four years. 結果 The FARC signed a final peace accord on 24 August 2016, revised and approved by Congress in November 2016 after the 2 October referendum rejected the first text by 50.2 to 49.8 per cent. Fighting with the ELN and dissident groups continues. Air strikes on camps where recruited minors were present have been the subject of court cases; see the 2025–2026 entry. Operation names and dates other than those listed were not confirmed in the sources checked.
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| Operation Phoenixthe Angostura raid in EcuadorColombian Air Force | 2008 | FARC-EP | A-29 Super Tucano, Helicopters | 0 | ||
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Bombed the FARC camp of Raúl Reyes about 1.8 km inside Ecuador, followed by a ground assault with helicopters. The strike began at 00:25 on 1 March 2008 against a camp across the Putumayo river in Ecuador; Super Tucanos took part according to Wikipedia’s Super Tucano article. Colombia’s position, stated by President Álvaro Uribe, was that it had taken “another step against terrorism, which does not respect borders”; he assumed full responsibility. Ecuador’s position, stated by President Rafael Correa, was that the raid was an aggression and a violation of its sovereignty, and that rebels had been killed in their sleep; Ecuador recalled its ambassador and broke relations on 3 March. Venezuela expelled Colombia’s ambassador and moved troops to the border, and Nicaragua broke relations on 6 March. An OAS resolution described the incursion as a violation of Ecuadorian sovereignty without condemning Colombia. 結果 Raúl Reyes was killed; Ecuador broke relations on 3 March 2008 and the crisis was defused at the Rio Group summit on 7 March. Casualty figures differ between sources (21 to 22 FARC dead) and the status of the Mexican and Ecuadorian dead was contested by the two governments. The exact aircraft numbers were not confirmed.
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| Air Bridge Denial and drug-flight interdictionair interdictionColombian Air Force | 2003– | Drug-trafficking flights | A-29 Super Tucano, クフィル, Surveillance aircraft | |||
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Intercepts suspect aircraft, forces them to land and, under the programme’s rules, may use force against those that refuse. The US-backed Air Bridge Denial programme ran in Colombia and Peru from the 1990s. It was suspended in April 2001 after a Peruvian aircraft shot down a missionary floatplane, killing Veronica Bowers and her daughter, and was restarted in Colombia in August 2003 with additional safeguards. From 2000 to 2008 the United States spent US$62 million on it, giving the Colombian air force seven surveillance aircraft and radar support. A 2010 GAO report found its effect on trafficking “difficult to assess”. Wikipedia records that a Hawker 800 carrying 1.2 tonnes of cocaine was shot into the sea in 2015. 結果 続きます。. The 2015 Hawker 800 case is attributed to Wikipedia only; no official tally of forced landings or shoot-downs was found. |
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| Air strikes on armed groupsGuaviare, Catatumbo and CaucaColombian Aerospace Force | 2025年～2026年 | FARC dissident fronts (Iván Mordisco, Calarcá), ELN and ACSN | A-29 Super Tucano, Kfir C10/C12, AC-47Tさらに2人 | |||
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Bombing of camps of FARC dissident fronts and the ELN; Kfir and Super Tucano patrols; gunship and helicopter support. Under President Petro air strikes were rare, but on 12 November 2025 a strike on a dissident camp in Guaviare killed 19 people, according to Wikipedia’s chronology. After Abelardo de la Espriella took office on 7 August 2026 the strikes resumed: against the ELN in Catatumbo on 10 or 11 August, against the Calarcá dissidents at El Retorno, Guaviare, on 27 August (Operation Amón) and against the Mordisco faction in Guaviare on 30 or 31 August. El Tiempo reports that the Ombudsman confirmed one 16-year-old killed in Catatumbo and Medicina Legal three minors aged 15 and 16 at El Retorno, with at least six minors in all. Lawyers filed tutelas; a Bogotá family court first suspended strikes where minors were present and on 16 September 2026 lifted the suspension under an ‘enhanced precaution’ standard, and a third court ordered suspension in Cauca. The government and the military opposed the suspension, arguing it would encourage armed groups to use children as shields; Defence Minister Jorge Mora said the state must “atacar con todas las capacidades”. The government appealed on 21 September 2026. 結果 Continuing under court-imposed precautions. Dates differ by one day between El Tiempo reports. The minors’ deaths are reported as findings of the Ombudsman and Medicina Legal; the government’s position is that the strikes were lawful operations against armed groups that recruit children. The number of minors killed in the November 2025 Guaviare strike was not confirmed in the sources reached.
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- Infodefensa: Colombia despliega cazas Kfir en el norte del país tras el paro armado de las ACSN (23 September 2026)Kfir C10/C12 patrols over Santa Marta ordered by President De La Espriella.
- Infodefensa: Colombia despliega un AC-47T ‘Fantasma’ contra las disidencias de las FARC (1 November 2025)Six AC-47 gunships since 1986, re-engined in 1991; GAU-19A guns and FLIR; close support against FARC dissidents in Cauca.
- El Tiempo: Juez levanta suspensión de bombardeos y aclara los criterios… (16 September 2026)Bogotá Family Court 34 lifts its suspension with an enhanced-precaution standard; August 2026 strikes and minors killed per the Ombudsman and Medicina Legal.
- El Tiempo: La batalla judicial por los bombardeos cambia de escenario (9 September 2026)Strikes of August 2026 in Catatumbo and Guaviare; at least six minors killed per Medicina Legal; tutelas consolidated 7 September 2026.
- El Tiempo: Mindefensa defiende los bombardeos (16 September 2026)Defence minister Jorge Mora defends air strikes; armed groups estimated at about 29,000 members.
- El Tiempo: Bombardeos (topic index, consulted 1 October 2026)Headlines: a third tutela suspending strikes in Cauca where minors or civilians are present (10 September 2026); the government appealed the ruling (21 September 2026).
Figures verified 2026-10-01. Back to the Colombian Aerospace Force.