translated from Spanish: Presidential airplanes: how were and what put AMLO on sale?

A Boeing 787 from more than 125 million dollars, five Executive aircraft which total 114 million dollars and four helicopters at a cost of $ 8 million each, are aircraft that President Enrique Peña had at his disposal grandson and now will be sold two and were reassigned to other tasks.
In total, the Presidency had at your service 10 aircraft which were in charge of the Estado Mayor Presidencial.
Through a request for information, the Secretariat of national defense (Sedena) explained that these aircraft were manufactured between 2010 and 2015.
Nine of them are high-end “pioneers in the Executive aviation” aircraft and, according to specialized sites and manufacturers, have been used by heads of State from around the world to move.
In listing four aircraft there is Mark Gulfstream, which were reassigned to the Mexican air force squadrons and are used for air operations, according to the information of the Sedena. However, its sale is planned.
The Gulfstream 550 model is one of the most equipped, with a capacity up to 18 passengers and four crew members. Its flight deck system is the most modern, because it counts as an infrared camera to facilitate the vision of the field and the track lighting in low visibility conditions, according to the website of its manufacturer. It is able to reach ultralargo trips.
The aircraft was manufactured by 2015 and has 513 hours of flight. The Mexican Government paid 54 million 439 thousand dollars.
Model G550. Photo: Gulfstream Company
The Gulfstream 450 has a capacity for 12 to 16 passengers and has the same set of cockpit than the 550 model. It was manufactured by 2015 and has 293 hours of flight. It had a cost of 37 million 750 thousand dollars.
G450 model. Photo: Gulfstream Company
The Mexican Government acquired two Gulfstream 150, which were manufactured in 2014 and 2015, and recorded 991 and 1,102 flying hours, respectively. And it has a capacity of six to eight passengers. Each aircraft had a cost of 15 million 100 thousand dollars.
Model G150. Photo: Gulfstream Company
The list also appears a turboprop aircraft King Air 350i, “one of the most popular commercial aircraft in the world”, according to the website of its manufacturer. The ship has 1,212 flying hours and had cost the Government 8 million 86 thousand $ 75.
It was also reassigned to the air force for operations but is scheduled for sale.
Photo: Beechcraft
The Presidency model AgustaWestland (AW109SP) had at his service four helicopters manufactured in 2013. Each had a cost of 8 million 210 thousand dollars and they have between 300 and 700 hours of flight. These ships were also assigned to the air force for operational use, but it is not referred sale.
Photo: DC Aviation
The luxurious presidential plane is also in the list of aircraft by the largest state. The Boeing 787 made in 2010 and purchased by the Government of Felipe Calderón, had a cost of 125 million $45,800.
The Boeing 787-8 “José María Morelos and Pavón” has a maximum capacity of 80 passengers, was used for two years and 6 months for 214 operations during the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto, and travelled a distance of over 600 thousand kilometers.

The #AviónPresidencial is sold and will take tomorrow off. We teach you the photos. #Austeridad pic.twitter.com/yrebZOa3IE
-SHCP Mexico (@SHCP_mx) December 2, 2018

The aircraft departed on December 3 to the airport of Victorville, California, United States, for its maintenance and preservation.
The head of the National Bank of works and services (Banobras), Jorge Mendoza Sánchez, said on April 24 that currently have 14 intentions of purchase for the presidential plane, coming from eight countries.
On 1 December, during his second address as President, Lopez Obrador reiterated his promise to sell the aircraft.
“They will sell all the planes and helicopters that corrupt politicians use”, he said a day later, visiting Veracruz.
For the sale of the aircraft, the Government organized aerospace fair of Mexico, at the air base of Santa Lucia, where 33 of the 72 Federal aircraft which are also on sale were exposed.
With these actions, the Government expects to get 10 billion pesos.
These aircraft are on display for sale at the aerospace fair that ends on April 27. It’s a business event involving 630 companies from 39 countries and develops in the principal air military Base in the country located in Santa Lucia, Mexico State.
Without information by break
To know the State of the ships asked the Presidency – through a request for transparency – about the number of aircraft that had the largest State, the functions performed, and general conditions; as well as where sheltered and what tasks.
The Unit responded that according to the regulations of the State more presidential, this should have data about the aircraft, as in article 19 of this standard designates that it is responsible “provide air transport service to the President of the” Republic, as well as to public servants and others determined by the own holder of the Federal Executive.”
However, pointed out in his reply that since 1 December 2018 the presidential “was in recess,” as well as the agencies that comprise it.
“… Therefore it is undeniable the inability to formal and material by the Office of the Presidency of the Republic, through the transparency unit of turns to the presidential request, perform a comprehensive search in the files physical and electronic of the requested information, because that this military technical organ, is in recess, “says the answer.
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