Aviation Command as central control, a Department of Aviation and Inspectorate General of Aviation as advisory bodies, and implementing three executive commands: The Instruction Air Command, The Service Air Command, and the Air Combat Command. This unit was assigned to the Air Combat Command. During 1969, an unfortunate accident happened with a B-25 Mitchell aircraft in the city of Barquisimeto, where Senior Technical Sergeant (Av) Esteban Sánchez Pachano died. Over the passing years, this unit housed weapons systems such as Canberra, F-86K and F-86F; the latter being those that gave life to this operational unit and were the first aircraft assigned to the Operational Air Base Unit. This occurred in July 1971 when the Air Fighter Group No. 12 assigned this facility as its headquarters. In the course of this year, the Canberra, which had been so outstanding in this unit, was moved to Barcelona. At the end of this year, Lt. (Av) Raga Esteban Parra entered the Heroes' Squadron after he died in the crash of an F-86F flying near the town of Sanare. 1970s During 1972, the Venezuelan Air Force weapons system acquired CF-5 aircraft that, over the years, became the operational aircraft of the air base. In 1973, there was a serious accident in which Lieutenants Otilio Guerra Torres and José Lucena Escalona, Bolivian Air Force sergeant Carlos Colmenares Parada, Venancio Chávez, and aero-technician Orlando Loaiza died. Their plane, a B-25 Mitchell, crashed near the town of Tapipa in the state of Miranda. In 1974, the Air Fighter Group No. 12 was permanently transferred to Barquisimeto, becoming the operating unit of the Lieutenant Vicente Landaeta Gil Air Base. Its main objective was to conduct operations against opposing air forces, provide air support, and help fulfill the mission of the Venezuelan Air Force. It was not until July 1974 when the planes were permanently transferred to the Lieutenant Vicente Gil Landaeta Air Base, where they have been operating ever since. The arrival of the CF-5 aircraft, along with the Canadian training school, radically changed the instruction and training of fighter pilots that had existed in the Venezuelan Air Force, introducing new techniques and knowledge. In 1976, through the Garrison Housing Institute of the Armed Forces, a housing plan came into effect which made it possible to build houses at the Lieutenant Vicente Gil Landaeta military installation. During 1977, through the improvement plans for military and civilian personnel of