Normando Costantino | |
Birth Date: | 1952 |
Allegiance: | ![]() |
Branch: | Argentine Air Force |
Rank: | Brigadier 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]
Costantino was born on March 18, 1952, in Rio Cuarto, where his father was the mayor and his mother a dancer.
Costantino is a veteran of the 1982 Falklands War (es|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.
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