This period ended in 1941, when president Getúlio Vargas, going against the Ministry of the Navy, transferred all military aviation in the country to the newly created Brazilian Air Force (FAB).

Therefore, the Navy recreated its Directorate of Aeronautics in 1952, acquired the Navio-Aeródromo Ligeiro (NAeL, that is, aircraft carrier) Minas Gerais in 1956 and invested heavily in a fleet of helicopters and planes and in a new cadre of aviators.

The 2008 National Defense Strategy also categorized the neologism "Multipurpose Ship" (Navio de Propósitos Múltiplos, NPM), which serves as a helicopter carrier, but only operates fixed-wing aircraft if they are STOVL vertical landing.

[12] The desire of power projection defended by the writers of the Revista Marítima Brasileira magazine began to materialize at the beginning of the 21st century, when the Brazilian Navy was able to board jets at NAe São Paulo.

Therefore, for the Brazilian naval doctrine, the central objective of its existence is the denial of the use of the sea to the enemy, having the capacity to keep the maritime areas and inland waters with political, strategic, economic and military importance under control.

The Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais, CFN), which would be leading the amphibious operation, would make extensive use of helicopters for infantry transport and fire support with machine guns and missiles.

Just five years after Santos Dumont's pioneering flight, in 1911, lieutenant Jorge Henrique Moller, the first Brazilian military pilot, received his license on 29 April, in France, and was also the founder of the Aeroclube Brasileiro.

In the 1924 São Paulo Revolt, the 1st and 2nd F5L Squadrons, two HS-2L and two Curtiss MF were transferred to Santos in July, from where they flew missions to support the Navy and reconnaissance of the coast between Itanhaém and Bertioga.

In October, airman sergeant Bráulio Gouveia joined the revolt on the battleship São Paulo and managed to reach the ship, but was wounded and had his seaplane destroyed by cannons from the loyalist coastal artillery.

According to the military doctrine defined in the General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMFA), air support would depend on the FAB, but the Navy considered the cooperation received unsatisfactory.

[64] It reacted by creating the 1st Group of Embarked Aviation (1st GAE) the following year, with Grumman S-2 Tracker planes (P-16, in the FAB) and Sikorsky HSS-1N Seabat helicopters, but the Navy did not allow them to operate aboard Minas Gerais.

[65] In 1958 the Navy already had a small body of pilots and qualified maintenance personnel, training them at the CIAAN (whose activities were transferred to a helipad at kilometer 11 of Avenida Brasil the previous year) and also sending officers to study abroad.

Minas Gerais arrived in Brazil in February 1961, bringing on board three Grumman TBF Avenger planes (used to train maneuvers on deck, not for flying) and three Westland Whirlwind S-55 Srs.1 helicopters and six Bell HTL-5 (mod.

[60][70] The helipad on Avenida Brasil was dangerous for air traffic due to its proximity to Galeão Airport, and a FAB plane had already collided with a commercial Viscount in 1959, requiring the decongestion of the area.

In September, the Minister of the Navy Sílvio Mota visited the base and was received with the "Revoada", a protest by naval aviators, who took off en masse; the interdiction had come to an end.

[79][81] The crisis reached the top echelon of the Castelo Branco government after the "Tramandaí incident" in December 1964: FAB soldiers fired at a HU-1 helicopter to prevent its takeoff, triggering a military police inquiry and the resignation of the Minister of Aeronautics Nelson Lavanére-Wanderley.

[96] The progressive expansion of Naval Aviation outside Rio de Janeiro, where BAeNSPA was located, the only authorized base,[28] began with the Embarked Air Detachment of the Amazon Flotilla, in 1979.

Consequently, in 1983 the Minister of the Navy Maximiano Eduardo da Silva Fonseca presented an explanatory statement for the purchase of twelve aircraft to president João Figueiredo,[100] and a naval version of the AMX A-1, developed by Alenia, Aermacchi and Embraer, it was announced, but canceled in 1985.

[106] Navy Minister Mauro César Rodrigues Pereira managed to overcome resistance from the FAB, the Army and the economic area of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government, in addition to Argentina's suspicions.

This made the squadron vulnerable to anti-ship missiles launched by low-flying enemy planes and helicopters, such as the Exocet that hit British ships in the Falklands War.

The acquisition of four Grumman S-2 Tracker cells in Australia, the same old FAB model in Minas Gerais, was foreseen, but did not reach a contract;[c] they would have been modernized to serve in early air warning.

The 2013 Brazilian Navy Articulation and Equipment Plan (PAEMB) provided for a future fleet of 72 aircraft (48 for intercept and attack and 24 for AEW, COD, REVO and maritime surveillance) and 206 helicopters.

[137] Plans to acquire a new aircraft carrier and a naval version of the Saab Gripen were unlikely to materialize at the time of decommissioning the São Paulo, given the country's economic crisis.

That year, the 1st Squadron of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (1.° Esquadrão de Aeronaves Remotamente Pilotadas, EsqdQE-1) was inaugurated, which enables new developments in the field of intelligence, surveillance and monitoring of certain targets.

[143][144][145] At sea, there is no direct aircraft-ship relationship: for each maritime operation, the Fleet Command-in-Chief (Comando-Em-Chefe da Esquadra, ComemCh) requests aircraft from ComForAerNav and ships from ComForSup.

Equipped with radar, sonar, torpedoes and depth charges, they were the first in the Navy capable of detecting and attacking submerged submarines,[161] and the squadron was the first to be officially certified for instrument flight rules.

[163][164] Visual reconnaissance, typical of the Esquilo and Jet Ranger, is conducted by flying to coordinates indicated by the ship to confirm targets or illegal activities; for this, they rely on lighting headlights.

[174] The 1st Remotely Piloted Aircraft Squadron (1.° Esquadrão de Aeronaves Remotamente Pilotadas, EsqdQE-1), activated on 5 July 2022, is responsible for the six ScanEagle model drones, along with their launchers and pickups for ground and airborne operations.

Practical teaching is at the 1st Instruction Helicopter Squadron, possibly with a previous period at the Brazilian Army Aviation base in Taubaté or at the Air Force Academy (AFA) in Pirassununga.

This training is the longest, lasting almost four years, also comprising periods in the U.S. Air Force and Navy, where they learn hooked landing and catapult operations aboard aircraft carriers.