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It appears to be a single seat aircraft, will there perhaps be a two seater available in the future?

1 September
The aircraft carrier ARA Independencia was eased into the large dry-dock at the AFNE Bahia Blanca shipyard this morning. For the next year she will undergo a thorough rebuild to modernise every aspect of her design and to make her equal with the latest aircraft carriers around the world. It is assumed her sister will begin a similar refit in 1951, but funding has not yet been secured.

4 September
The French rugby union tour of Argentina has ended today with the second Test Match against the Argentine national team. Unfortunately for the large home crowd the French won again 3-12. A. Palma scored a great try for Argentina, but the French pack were too powerful and M. Pomathios and Jean Prat both ran in tries and Prat also making a drop goal to secure the win.

9 October
The Compania Argentina de Marinanavegacion Rividavia has been declared bankrupt. The company was founded on 1 January 1937 and financed the building of a civilian aircraft carrier used for postal and fast freight courier services to Africa and Atlantis. Facing profitability problems for several years and with accidents having claimed two-thirds of the fleet of twelve FMA I.Ae.4 Courier mail planes, the owners have finally bowed to pressure and closed the firm. Aeroposta Argentina S.A. has cancelled all its remaining contracts with the company. The aging carrier postal ship is likely to be sold for scrap.

20 October
An I.Ae.28 B-02 Calquin bomber left the FMA airfield at Cordoba this morning and made the first flight of Projecto Tábano (Project Gadfly). Beneath the fuselage the FMA engineers had fitted a streamlined winged body containing a rocket engine and propellant tanks. The rocket was ignited and ran for twenty seconds. The primary aim of the project is to research fuel types and performances and guidance systems for a future air-to-ground missile. The first batch of test flights are designed to test the reliability of the engine before drop tests are carried out next year.

2 November
The last of six examples of the TG-1M35 self-propelled armoured gun with the Tank School were retired from service today. Each of these little vehicles had seen extensive use during the 1935 SA War and has in the years since trained countless numbers of assault gun crews. All will be gifted to museums and memorials across the country.

7 November
The Navy's busy summer exercise season continues. For the next ten days Naval Brigada II will be performing a series of fleet exercises off Patagonia.
The main units involved are the; 2nd and 3rd Cruiser Squadrons, 2nd and 5th Destroyer Squadrons and the 2nd Escort Squadron, along with the Submarine Squadron and the training aircraft carrier Avispón.

8 November
President Juan Ramon Mugnolo today arrived in Buenos Aries for a three-day long State visit. This marks the first time an Argentine President has visited Grand Urugauy since the war nearly 15 years ago. Political commentators have seen this as further evidence of the thaw in relations over the past few years.
Politically the main parties are now starting to look ahead to next year's election and are beginning to jostle for votes. With the frail Conservative-National Democratic coalition with its slender majority of two deputies has largely pursued a safe course but has not really satisfied anyone on either side of the political spectrum, its uneasy 'path of least resistance' policy had meant the nation has rather coasted along. There is certain to be heavy campaigning next year.

21 November
The cruiser ARA Almirante Domecq Garcia completed her refit today. All four of the Belgrano Class cruisers have now been refitted with modernised anti-aircraft weapons and fire-control equipment, losing their catapults and aircraft in the process.

28 November
The last two of the four landing craft ordered this year, ARA LC15 and ARA LC16, have commissioned with 2nd Landing Craft Flotilla at Comodoro Rivadavia today.

17 December
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Tierra del Fuego at 06:53:30. Its epicentre was located in the east of the Chilean Tierra del Fuego Province, close to the Argentine border, at a depth of 30 km. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the south of Argentina and one of the most powerful in austral Chile. It was felt with intensities as high as VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale and affected the settlements of Punta Arenas and Río Gallegos.

18 December
Today saw the last of three Argentine Grand Prix races being held on the Palermo street circuit in Cordoba. All three podium positions went to Ferrari 166 FL drivers; the Italian Alberto Ascari, Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio and the Italian Luigi Villoresi.

20 December
The football club, Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys, has won the Primera División Argentina for the second year running. Rosario Central were runners up.