Chile

CL is the abbreviation to be used in this wiki referring to Chile. "CH" is taken by Switzerland for historical reasons.

The Aero Club of Chile was founded in 1913. We knows its early officers and board. There were several other Chilean aeronautical institutions we can gather information on here.

A "complete" list of 33 Chilean aviators appears in the Boletín del Aero-Club de Chile for 1914.

We are potentially working on this topic for all patents from Chile from 1840-1910: http://econterms.net/Patentes-chilenas/Patentes_chilenas

Patents

The Chilean patent office is the Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial (INAPI), and its history goes back the early 1800s.

"The database on Chilean Patents, 1840-1908 has been developed by Bernardita Escobar from distinct official publications and historical files available at the INAPI (http://www.inapi.cl)." (Use that link also for patent-computerization projects in Mexico, Uruguay, Cuba, Argentina, and Peru)

Bernardita Escobar Andrae was the patent office chief in Chile. We may be able to team up on patents on wiki. She has several papers about Chilean patents.

More studies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1751157719302202

Aero pioneers

A page originally from Chile's DGAC site (and perhaps still there) has an apparently reliable list of Chilean aero pioneers. Translated into English by DeepL and compressed slightly it reads thus, and we can use it as a source. It's not completely clear why the extra capital letter appears at the end of some names, but those might be abbreviations of unknown or unstated maternal last names:

Chilean Aeronautical Pioneers

• David Fuentes Soza. He established several flight records; He made the first airplane crossing of the Strait of Magellan, on Nov 1, 1916.
• Lieutenant Dagoberto Godoy F. He made the first crossing of the Andes Mountains in an airplane over its highest part, on December 12, 1918, in a Bristol M1C airplane.
• Clodomiro Figueroa. He delivred the first airmail in Chile (Stgo - Valparaiso, January 1, 1919), founded a flying school, built airplanes, and established a society to spread flying in Chile.
• Lieutenant Armando Cortínez M. made the first double crossing of the Andes in an airplane over the highest part of the mountain range, in April 1919, in a Bristol airplane.
• Captain Diego Aracena Aguilar. Together with Captain Federico Barahona, Engineer Ricardo Seabrook and Sergeant Manuel Barahona, he made the raid Santiago; Rio de Janeiro, in August and September 1922. Using DH-9 airplanes, Aracena manages to arrive at a short distance from his objective, completing the raid in a Brazilian seaplane, due to his own accident. Later he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the National Air Force.
• José Luis Sánchez Besa. Civilian pilot, designer and builder of airplanes before and during the First World War. Some of his aircraft were used by the Aeronáutica Militar chilena (Chilean military). He won prizes in aeronautical competitions with aircraft he created.
• César Copetta Brossio. French citizen residing in Chile and dedicated to automotive mechanics. Moved by enthusiasm, he volunteered to pilot the 50 HP Voisin and make the first flight of an airplane in Chile on August 21, 1910.
• Luis Alberto Acevedo A. First martyr of Chilean civil aviation. He paid for and took a flying course in France, dedicating himself to spread flying in Chile by means of exhibitions. He died in an aviation accident flying between Concepción and Santiago on April 13, 1913.
• Lieutenant Alejandro Bello Silva. He trained as a pilot in France in 1913, in a group from the Chilean military sent to receive flight instruction. He became the first pilot to disappear in the history of Chilean aeronautics, when on March 9, 1914, flying a Sanchez Besa aircraft, he was lost while on a raid between El Bosque, Culitrín, Cartagena and El Bosque.
• Luis Omar Page. First non-commissioned officer of the Chilean Army to obtain the title of pilot, and after his retirement he made a career as a test pilot and acrobatic pilot. He made the first public night flight in Chile, on February 27, 1914, and later toured abroad, which led him to make the first airplane flight in Bolivia, on July 31, 1915. Later he would work in European aeronautical companies as a test pilot.
• Armando Venegas de la Guarda. Precursor of civil aviation and co-founder of the Aero Club de Chile on March 29, 1913. He served as Secretary of that entity for a long time, participating in the organization of the first Pan-American Aeronautical Conference held in Chile in 1916. A pioneer of balloon flight in Chile, in 1916 he achieved an altitude record flying in these aircraft.
• Luis Contreras Sotomayor. Major General of the Chilean Army. On July 22, 1920, he was appointed Inspector General of Aviation. Under his command, the Military Aeronautics made important reconnaissance flights of the territory, looking for suitable places for future bases, such as the Santiago-Tacna flight in February and March 1924, as well as training raids to the south of the country.
• Lieutenant Roberto Herrera Ramírez. He made the first crossing of the Andes by its highest part in an airplane and with a passenger, on May 22, 1921. The flight was made in a DH-9 bomber, linking El Bosque with San Luis in Argentina, where the airplane was capped when trying to land.

end of DGAC list of Chilean aero pioneers

References

This wiki has 1 Chilean patents and 5 patents filed by Chileans.

People affiliated with Chile: Alfredo Guillermo Leigh, Jaques Balsan, Julio Kaulen, Pedro Traversari, Salustio Valdés Cortés, Wilhelm Frick

Patents filed in Chile: Patent CL-1902-Fragnaud-Sutil
Patents filed by persons from Chile: Patent CL-1902-Fragnaud-Sutil, Patent FR-1911-429865, Patent GB-1918-130859, Patent DE-1921-411258, Patent CA-1935-352511

Publications referring to Chile

• Lilienthal, 1893, Ein begeisterter Flugtechniker in Chile (Simple title: An avid flight engineer in Chile, Journal: Zeitschr. Luftsch.)
• Publication 244, 1893, Aëronautische Feuilletons in chilenischen Zeitungen (Simple title: Aëronautical stories in Chilean newspapers, Journal: Zeitschr. Luftsch.)
• Fisher, 1916, Recollections of aviation in the Argentine and Chile (Simple title: Recollections of aviation in the Argentine and Chile, Journal: Aeronautics (UK))
• Tohtli, 1916, El aeroplano en Sud América (Simple title: The airplane in South America, Journal: Tohtli)
• Domínguez Koch, 1978, Historia de la Aeronáutica Argentina (Simple title: History of Argentine Aeronautics)