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{{Airframe info |name='''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' |image=[[File:A-517.jpg|thumb|300px]] |caption=A-517 at Goose Green Airstrip on 10 July 1983<ref name="jpics 6169038">https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/6169038 via Ian Howat</ref> |designation=[[:Category:FMA IA-58 Pucara|FMA IA-58 Pucara]] |version=A }} =History= Built as c/n 017,<ref name="GINFO Full BLRP">https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=BLRP</ref> A-517 was damaged in a Sea Harrier attack,<ref name="jpics 6169038"/> possibly at Port Stanley by 800 Squadron on 1 May 1982,<ref name="keypubforum 29774 Pucara A-517">https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?29774-INFO-ON-PUCARA-A-517-WANTED</ref> and was then used as a decoy for the rest of the war, being attacked several times more. Afterwards it was registered as '''G-BLRP''' and supposedly shipped to the UK in a container.<ref name="jpics 6169038"/> Owned by Grampian Helicopters International Ltd between 3 December 1984 and 15 September 1989, the aircraft passed to private owner Rodney John Halsey Butterfield<ref>http://arqueologiaaeronautica.blogspot.nl/2015/08/fma-ia-58a-pucara-matr-517.html</ref>, who retained ownership until the registration was cancelled on 16 November 1995.<ref name="GINFO Full BLRP">https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=BLRP</ref> The aircraft was reportedly sighted at RAF Bicester in 1995.<ref name="keypubforum 29774 Pucara A-517" /> It's subsequent fate is unknown. =Sources= <references /> [[Category:Falklands War]] [[Category:FMA IA-58 Pucara]]
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