It was only in the 1970s that the Air Force received a dozen outdated but still armed T-6 Texan planes and started again training pilots in its own soil.

The government decided to buy ten AT-26 Xavante from Brazil in order to be able to defend the Paraguayan airspace; the first three aircraft arrived in December 1979 at the International Airport of Asunción.

Juan Antonio Rojas Duré and Gerardo Miguel Ángel Maldonado Gómez, piloting Xavantes, made a series of aggressive flyovers above the loyalist forces, a deeply demoralizing action, for the latter had no way to defend themselves against the combat jets.

The Taiwanese had also announced they would donate twelve F-5E/F fighter jets to Paraguay, with provisions for supplies, maintenance and the training of ground crew and pilots, but due to international issues this movement didn't go through.

From circa 2014/2015 onwards, plans were started to modernize the branch, through strong licitations, law projects in the Congress and contracts with multinational corporations.

[8] Besides this, studies have been made for the acquisition of Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano planes, and also a delegation sent to the scene of the negotiations between Peru and South Korea for the KT-1P.

[18] In December 2023, Arturo Javier González Ocampo, who had been the PAF's Commander in Chief until November, was arrested by the Federal Police of Brazil amidst an investigation on arms trafficking.