This Tuesday the 15th, at 8:55 p.m., the Boeing 767-200 tanker, registration MM62228, of the Italian Aeronautica Militare , landed at Malvinas Argentinas Airport in Ushuaia.

The aircraft is part of the fleet assigned to NATO operations and arrived in Tierra del Fuego's capital from the French Caribbean colony of Guadeloupe after a 9-hour, 56-minute flight.

This can be documented in the global satellite tracking records that are permanently and continuously carried out by www.flightradar24.com , which positions the aircraft still on the platform of the Ushuaia airport .

 Officially, at the national level, from the Ministry of Defense, or from the Argentine Foreign Ministry, no information has been released to explain the presence of the Italian military aircraft . Nor has there been any from the Tierra del Fuego government . However, when Governor Gustavo Melella was contacted this afternoon, he responded that he would investigate.

A clue : something similar happened with the same plane in June 2017, when the aircraft arrived at the Tierra del Fuego airport directly from Fortaleza, Brazil, conducting flight training over the sea, with no land horizon.

All the information consulted confirms that the Italian Air Force is a key component of NATO and effectively contributes air capabilities to the alliance's operations. It participates with NATO in exercises and missions, including combat operations, transport, and in-flight refueling. In the latter case, since 2011, with four KC-767A tanker aircraft based on the Boeing 767-200ER, such as the one that landed Tuesday night in the city of Ushuaia.