Normando Costantino

Brigadier General [1] Normando Costantino (born 1952) is a former Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force.

[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 (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.

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