Brazilian Naval Aviation combat record

Em todas as guerras e operações, a Aviação Naval Brasileira participou de voos.

Brazilian naval aviators trained with the Allies in the First World War and some flew with the Royal Air Force, while the Navy’s own aircraft stayed at home; the only fighting by its own aircraft in this record is the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, whose account rests on English Wikipedia citing a single modern history. Since then the record is a UN maritime mission off Lebanon and relief flying at home. Brazil was neutral in the 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the islands Britain calls the Falkland Islands and Argentina the Islas Malvinas. 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 First World War in 1917 to the Rio Grande do Sul floods in 2024.

Conflito Anos Contra Aeronave principal Missões Aeronave perdida
A Primeira Guerra Mundialnaval aviators with the AlliesEscola de Aviação Naval (officers attached to Allied air services) 1917–1918 Alemanha Allied aircraft

Brazilian naval aviators trained with Allied air services and some flew with the Royal Air Force; the Navy’s own aircraft stayed at home.

The FGV history of naval aviation records officers sent to Britain, France and Italy for advanced instruction, and three groups attached to the RAF; the Força Aeronaval’s own history says naval aviators took part in First World War operations with the RAF. The Navy’s ships of the DNOG squadron served off West Africa under British command, according to Wikipedia, but no naval aircraft went with them.

Resultado Brazil recognised a state of war with Germany on 26 October 1917; the naval aviators returned with training that shaped the service in the 1920s.

The names of the officers who flew operationally, and what they flew, were not established from the sources checked.

Voando para
Escola de Aviação Naval (officers attached to Allied air services)
Onde
Britain, France and Italy
Ao lado de
United Kingdom, France and Italy
Contra
Alemanha
Aeronave
Allied aircraft
Perdas
1 mortoLieutenant Eugênio Possolo was killed in a collision while training in England, the first Brazilian naval aviator to die, per the FGV history.
Fontes
FGV Projetos · Marinha do Brasil · Wikipédia
A Revolução Constitucionalistaa Guerra PaulistaAviação Naval (federal government) 1932 forças do estado de São Paulo Savoia-Marchetti S.55A, Martin PM, Vought O2U-2A Corsair

Naval flying boats and scouts supported the federal blockade of São Paulo’s coast.

Three Savoia-Marchetti S.55A flying boats (numbers 1, 4 and 8) and two Martin PMs (111 and 112) left Galeão on 12 July 1932 and were based temporarily at São Sebastião island near Vila Bela, today’s Ilhabela, to support the blockade. Vought O2U-2A Corsair scout biplanes worked from an enlarged airstrip at Vila Bela. The campaign, fought by separate army and naval air arms, became part of the case for a single air force in 1941.

Resultado São Paulo rendeu-se em 2 de outubro de 1932.

The account rests on English Wikipedia, which cites a single modern history of the air war.

Voando para
Aviação Naval (federal government)
Onde
São Paulo coast and the island of São Sebastião
Ao lado de
Federal Army aviation
Contra
forças do estado de São Paulo
Aeronave
Savoia-Marchetti S.55A, Martin PM, Vought O2U-2A Corsair
Perdas
Losses of naval aircraft are not stated in the account cited by Wikipedia.
Fontes
Wikipédia
Força-Tarefa Marítima da UNIFILthe UN naval mission off LebanonForça Aeronaval (embarked air detachments) 2011–2020 Super Lynx (HA-1) 0

Helicopters of the Força Aeronaval flew from the Brazilian flagship of the UN Maritime Task Force.

UNIFIL’s Maritime Task Force is the only naval force of a UN peace mission. In November 2020 Poder Naval reported HA-1’s “Lince 04”, the organic helicopter of the frigate Independência, flagship of the task force, firing live in the Mediterranean. The frigate escaped damage in the Beirut port explosion of 4 August 2020.

Resultado Brazil provided a ship to UNIFIL from 2011 to 2020 according to Wikipedia; the Navy proposed ending the mission in September 2019.

The number of air detachments and flying hours over the nine years was not published in the sources reached.

Voando para
Força Aeronaval (embarked air detachments)
Onde
Eastern Mediterranean, off Lebanon
Ao lado de
Nações Unidas
Aeronave
Super Lynx (HA-1)
Perdas
0 aeronaves · 0 mortosNo losses were reported in the sources checked.
Fontes
Poder Naval · Wikipédia
Inundações do Rio Grande do SulOperation Taquari 2 reliefForça Aeronaval (HU-2, HU-51) and NAM Atlântico 2024 UH-15 Super Cougar, UH-12 Esquilo 0

Navy helicopters flew rescue and supply missions; the helicopter carrier Atlântico was sent south.

UH-15s of HU-2 from São Pedro da Aldeia and UH-12s of HU-51 from Rio Grande flew in the May 2024 floods; on one fuel run a crew rescued a family of four from a roof (Poder Naval). On 6 May the Navy announced it was sending Atlântico, with 200 marines, 40 vehicles and eight small boats; on 27 May the USS George Washington transferred 15 tonnes of supplies to her by helicopter, according to Wikipedia.

Resultado The Navy’s helicopters joined the largest armed forces relief operation in the state’s history.

A humanitarian operation, listed because the service flew in it.

Voando para
Força Aeronaval (HU-2, HU-51) and NAM Atlântico
Onde
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ao lado de
Brazilian Army, Brazilian Air Force and US Navy
Aeronave
UH-15 Super Cougar, UH-12 Esquilo
Perdas
0 aeronaves · 0 mortosNenhum relato.
Fontes
Poder Naval · Wikipédia

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Fontes e Leitura Complementar

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Dados verificados em 01/10/2026. Back to the Brazilian Naval Aviation.