Mercenary Army Aviation Special Operations FARP Team? Where to recruit?

[Icelander]

Having reviewed the regulations for residency and citizenship, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC), as well as the history of the relevant Central American countries in this era (they were having a spot of trouble, with all the civil wars), I've come up with some preliminary locations.

Now, it's not necessarily good to have all their helicopters registered to the same company or even kept in the same place. Even if they participate in exercises with national armies where numerous helicopters are needed, they can lease them from sub-contractors.

The shoot house and tactical exercise facility will be in Guatemala right from 1991. Yes, this means that it's technically in a country still going through a civil war and maybe they'll be hired to perform some activities dangerously close to participating in it. This is fine, it's not like they've planning to emigrate to the US and having the CIA view them as regional mercenaries is actually decent cover.

They will not want to live in Guatemala, though. Residency through investment in Honduras means they can immediately get a residency permit there and after they live there for three years, they can become citizens. And while a lot of Salvadorans and Nicaraguan contras were trained in Honduras, by the US and others, the country was, at least, not a warzone.

From 1994, once they become Honduran citizens, they can set up another shoot house and tactical training facility close to their homes, to reduce the need for commuting. They'll still have the Guatemala facility, to use in case of training that is closer to there.

They'll also train in Panama's Darién Gap, illegally, as well performing the kind of infiltrations they'd do for real as dry runs in some neighbouring countries with poor border security, using the opportunity to stash arms caches.

Some of the helicopters can be owned by Colombian companies, as the Mi-8/Mi-17 are commercially type certified there. Obviously, the Mi-24 Hinds and armed Mi-8 Hips will be registered with a Private Military Company, first in Honduras, then in Guatemala.

Does anyone know about Central American countries where Hip helicopters are commercially certified?

Any of the mercenaries will have the option of having a second home in Costa Rica or Panama, to use during leaves. Or they can just travel during leave weeks, stay in hotels or resorts. Once they can no longer have a training facility in Honduras, after 2003, I imagine they move away from there, even if they retain the citizenship.