The Strategic Operational Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Ceofanb), Domingo Hernández Lárez, reported that a hostile aircraft was intercepted and neutralized in the state of Apure, bringing the total to 28 so far this year.
Lárez spread images, through his social networks, of the action carried out by military personnel within the framework of the “Bolivarian Shield 2025” operation, in the Comprehensive Defense Region (Redi) No. 3 Los Llanos.
The post indicates that the plane was detected “through the early warning radar systems belonging to the nation’s comprehensive aerospace power of the territorial defensive system, the trace of a moving vector entering the country through the east of the state of Bolívar, without issuing an identification code, with the transponder system turned off, heading west (Bolívar-Amazonas-Apure), carrying out the legal control and information verifications through the FIR Maiquetía where it was found that said “The aircraft did not present a flight plan, so it was declared illegal and its interdiction was immediately ordered.”
According to the descriptions, it was a white twin-engine Cessna 310 aircraft with a green stripe without visible registration, which did not comply with the protocol established in the Control Law for the Comprehensive Defense of Venezuelan Airspace, declaring itself “hostile,” and ordering it to make a forced landing in the Pedro Camejo municipality, to proceed to subsequent “immobilization” on the ground.
To date, 419 aircraft have been disabled in Venezuela since the enactment of the law passed in 2013 and 28 during the year 2025, Hernández Lárez said at the end of his message.
