The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

Ecuadors political ally Venezula, donated military equipment and six Mirage 50 aircraft.

The combination of the large numbers of aircraft donated to the Smithsonian after World War II and the need for hangar and factory space for the Korean War drove the Smithsonian to look for its own facility to store and restore aircraft.

Several flying boat aircraft and other equipment had also been donated to Canada by the Americans who had temporarily established naval air stations on the east coast pending formation of the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service.

In 2003, Air France donated one of its retiring Concorde aircraft ( F-BVFB ) to the museum.

One of the propellers from the aircraft was later donated by the airline to the town to be auctioned for charity.

The Air Safety Board purchased the aircraft in 1939 and it remained in use for 14 years before it was donated to the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.

One faulty aircraft, however, landed at Natal, where it remained and was later donated to the Brazilian Air Force.

The swastika motif was inspired by a symbol of luck that decorated the first aircraft in the Finnish Defence Forces, which was donated by the Swedish Count Eric von Rosen in 1918.

He flew relief missions in a number of conflicts as well as combat missions for Finland ( whose first military aircraft his father had donated in 1918 ) and Biafran rebels.

As a result, more than one thousand aircraft were donated to Brazilian aviation schools.

It pays lasting tribute to all those airmen who fought in the skies over southern England during World War II and houses a substantial collection of aviation relics excavated by the group over many years from sites of crashed British and German aircraft, as well as items which have been donated.

In February 2011 the aircraft was donated to the Pima Air and Space Museum by NASM.

* Hughes Helicopters-a former division of Hughes Aircraft Company retained by Summa when the remainder of the aircraft business was donated to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as its endowment

Designed to resemble the hangar deck of a World War II Navy aircraft carrier, it contains a number of items from the USS Enterprise ( CV-6 ), donated by members of her crew and flight squadrons.

In the early 1990s the aircraft was disassembled and moved indoors to hangar space at the factory where it was built, donated by Lockheed Aircraft.

Hollick-Kenyon later recovered the aircraft and it was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1936 by Ellsworth.

Later, in 1964, it added three additional C-47 and two more C-54 aircraft, all of them donated by the United States International Development Agency.

Seven other east coast aircraft companies also donated $ 675, 000 to provide working capital for the lab.

Stanley Hiller donated money and a number of aircraft to form the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California, which opened in 1998.

In 836, Biblis had its first documentary mention in the Lorsch Abbey ’ s Codex Laureshamensis under the name Bibifloz (“ settlement at the water ”) when King Louis the German donated his holdings in Biblis, Wattenheim and Zullestein to his faithful vassal Wernher, who in turn bequeathed them to the Lorsch Abbey in 846.

The blue swastika is adopted as its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane.

The Franciscan monastery was donated by Jakob von Riggisberg in 1256.

In 1216, prince-bishop Theoderich von Wied donated part of the lands of the basilica and the hospital to the Teutonic Knights, which later became the Deutsches Eck.

Statue of Alexander von Humboldt outside Humboldt University, donated by the University of Havana.

Gunther von Hagens ' BODY WORLDS exhibitions are the original, precedent-setting public anatomical exhibitions of real human bodies, and the only anatomical exhibits that use donated bodies, willed by donors to the Institute for Plastination for the express purpose of serving the BODY WORLDS mission to educate the public about health and anatomy.

The predecessor facilities, which existed since 1638, were converted into Jesuit school, and finally, upon instigation of the Jesuits and with the support of the Silesian Oberamtsrat ( Second Secretary ) Johannes Adrian von Plencken, donated as a university in 1702 by Emperor Leopold I as a School of Philosophy and Catholic Theology with the designated name Leopoldina.

He donated his bodily remains to the anatomist Gunther von Hagens.

Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ donated the Croy Tapestry, a tapestry depicting the Reformation from 1554.

In 1640 a clock was built underneath the rebuilt spire, and from 1650 the famous Wallenrodt Library, donated by Martin von Wallenrodt, was situated underneath the gable roof.

The knights Marsilius and Reiner and their relative Marsilius von Lisdorf donated their stake in the patronship to the Church of Reisweiler in 1237.

The charity " Brothers in Need " was established in Germany to raise money for the Soviet Germans, President Paul von Hindenburg himself donated 200 thousand Reichsmarks of his money for that purpose.

The Cistercian monastery of Salem Abbey was founded in 1134 when the knight Guntram von Adelsreute donated land for its establishment.

The Diller – von Fürstenberg family has donated a total of $ 35 million to the High Line to date.

The families von Brobergen and von Haseldorf donated a Cistercian nunnery in Rhaden near Lamstedt.

In 1314 Reinhard von Ingerichingen donated farms in the hamlet of Edenbachen to the Imperial Ochsenhausen Abbey.

A local aristocratic dynasty was first recorded at the end of the 13th century when, in 1288, Konrad Schenk von Asmushard donated a meadow in Altheim.

The Emperor window, donated by the City of Vienna, depicted the delivrance of the Emperor, saved from assassination by Maximilian Graf O ' Donell von Tyrconnell, but this original theme was lost when the windows were destroyed during World War II.

His bust is located at the Ludwig von Mises Library and it was donated by Walter S. Morris, of Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1991.

Count Christian Leopold von Schaffgotsch of Warmbrunn, now Cieplice, donated the site.

Noémi von Rothschild's father, Baron Rothschild, had recently donated a stereocomparator to the Vienna Obsevatory.