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The Portuguese Naval Aviation ((ポルトガル語:Aviação Naval Portuguesa)) is the naval air component of the Portuguese Navy, officially designated as ''Esquadrilha de Helicópteros da Marinha'' (EHM), responsible for the operation of the aircraft on board their ships.〔 It is more commonly known as Naval Aviation as it received various official designations throughout its service and its origins date back to 1917, when it was created has the air branch of the Navy. The service was then disbanded and integrated into the Portuguese Air Force (PoAF), upon the creation of this new branch in 1952, having been reactivated in its current form in 1993 to operate the Navy's new shipborne helicopters entering service with the ''Vasco da Gama'' frigates. ==History== The origins of the Portuguese Naval Aviation date back to 1916, when two Navy officers were sent to France to undergo flight training〔 as part of a larger effort started in 1913 to create a military aviation school capable of serving as the basis for the creation of both the Army's and Navy's aviation services.〔 These two Navy officers — 1TEN Artur de Sacadura Cabral and GMAR AN António Joaquim Caseiro — underwent basic flight training at Chartres and flying boat flight training at Saint-Raphaël, Var.〔〔〔 During Sacadura Cabral's stay in France, he was also appointed by the Navy Ministry to establish contact with the French aviation industry to study the existing hydroplane models to equip a future Portuguese naval air service.〔 Upon their return, both were appointed flight instructors at the Military Aviation School of Vila Nova da Rainha ((ポルトガル語:Escola de Aviação Militar de Vila Nova da Rainha)), the navy's section of the Army's School of Military Aeronautics ((ポルトガル語:Escola de Aeronáutica Militar), EAM), with Sacadura Cabral being appointed instruction director.〔 Meanwhile, Navy personnel started receiving flight training and aircraft maintenance instruction at the school and abroad, in France.〔〔 Also upon his return to Portugal, Sacadura Cabral was asked by the War Minister to designate an appropriate location for a future hydroplane naval air station, which later became the Bom Sucesso Naval Air Station ((ポルトガル語:Centro de Aviação Naval do Bom Sucesso)). In late 1916, due to the threat posed by the submarines of the Imperial German Navy to the merchant ships sailing along the Portuguese coast during World War I, the French government asked Portugal permission to install a naval air station in Portugal.〔〔 1st Lieutenant Maurice Larrouy, of the French Navy, elaborated a study which proposed the installation of an airship and hydroplane base in Lisbon, and two additional hydroplane bases in the north and south of Portugal. However, due to the logistics costs of operating airships, Sacadura Cabral opposed the plan of installing an airship base in Lisbon and instead the decision was made to equip Bom Sucesso with anti-submarine flying boats and to build a hydroplane base for the French Naval Aviation in Aveiro.〔 On September 28, 1917, the Navy's Aviation Service ((ポルトガル語:Serviço de Aviação da Armada)) was created with its personnel, material and aviation school being separated from the Army's EAM.〔 The service was then installed at the Bom Sucesso Naval Air Station in the Lisbon docks. Two F.B.A. flying boats, received in March 1917 and stored at EAM, arrived at Bom Sucesso by December 1917, marking the beginning of the Navy's independent flight operations. On January 5, 1918, the naval aviation was renamed to Naval Aeronautical Service ((ポルトガル語:Serviço da Aeronáutica Naval)).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Portuguese Naval Aviation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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