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department: the Department of the Air Force Subsecretaria de Aviación effectively creating the current independent Air Force. It was initially named National Air Force Fuerza Aérea Nacional. The international airport of Chile carries the name of Lan's founding father and first commander of the air force, Air Commodore Arturo Merino Benítez. Its baptism of fire was in the 1931 sailors' rebellion in Coquimbo, where Air Force attack aircraft and bombers and 2 transport planes

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