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Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA

1971-1984 aircraft manufacturer in Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ2060623 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA (AAMSA) was an aircraft manufacturing company in Mexico from 1971 to 1984.

History

AAMSA was formed in 1971 as a joint venture between Rockwell International (30%) and Industrias Unidas SA (70%) to manufacture Rockwell's range of agricultural aircraft at a factory in Pasteje.

Products

The company's most noteworthy product was the A9B-M Quail, a development of the CallAir A-9, which was produced in 1984. About 40 units were produced.

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“Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA” enters the record as 1971-1984 aircraft manufacturer in Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aeronáutica, Agrícola and Mexicana can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aeronáutica, Agrícola and Mexicana.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2060623. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.