The Instituto Tecnológico Superior Aeronáutico () of the

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is an

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with a mission to train civilian and military personnel through a comprehensive

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in technical areas, scientific and humanistic. Since 1954 the Ecuadorian Air Force through the school specialty first, then ITSA, has been training the air technologists (''aerotécnicos'') staff of different specialties in

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. The ITSA graduated its first class in Avionics, Logistics, Aviation Mechanics, and Telematics, with proficiency in

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, for employment inf

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and

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. Because of it being put into competition with other schools, especially with ESPOL, ITSA lost in the exclusive Advanced suborbital ASTRONAUT - ASA/T program for the training of a corps of Ecuadorean

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s, getting only 2 out of 10 seats available.

References

Official website
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