Normando Costantino
Brigadier General Normando Costantino
Born1952
Allegiance Argentina
Service/branchArgentine Air Force
RankBrigadier General
(equivalent to 3-star or 4-star rank)

Brigadier General [1] Normando Costantino (born 1952) is a former Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force. He has a degree in Air and Space Systems.[2]

Early life

Costantino was born on March 18, 1952, in Rio Cuarto, where his father was the mayor and his mother a dancer.

Career

Costantino is a veteran of the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas),[3] where he fought as an A-4C Skyhawk pilot [4] although his only two missions were aborted (one because a VHF radio problem and the other an aerial refueling failure from the KC-130 Hercules) [5]

In November 2006, he was appointed as the overall commander of the Air Force following Eduardo Schiaffino's dismissal by the senior Argentine political leadership.[6]

In July 2013, he was replaced by Mario Miguel Callejo.

References

  1. ↑ "Argentine Air Force Official Web". Archived from the original on 2011-02-10. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  2. ↑ http://www.telediariodigital.com.ar/leer.asp?idx=15872%5B%5D
  3. ↑ "Buenos Aires Herald newspaper". Archived from the original on 2006-11-10. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ [La batalla aérea de nuestras Islas Malvinas, ISBN 950-99658-0-4]
  6. ↑ "Buenos Aires Herald". Archived from the original on 2006-11-10. Retrieved 2007-11-08.


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