Background
PORTILLO, Gregorio Antonio was born on December 24, 1897 in Curuzú-Cuatiá, Corrientes, Argentina.
PORTILLO, Gregorio Antonio was born on December 24, 1897 in Curuzú-Cuatiá, Corrientes, Argentina.
Educated Escuela Naval Argentina, 1914-1918, Escuela de Aviación Naval Argentina, 1923-1925. Further studies in photography and topography, Royal Air Force School, England, 1930, and in the United States, 1936. Studies in hydrographic service, France, 1931.
Officer, pilot; chief, commandant of air force, chief of aviation base, division chief in office of naval aviation. Professor, of aerial photography, Escuela de Aviación Naval, 1925-1927, 1932-1934. Professor, of aviation, Escuela de Aplicación para Oficiales de Rio Santiago, 1936-1938.
Director general, office of real estate taxes, city of Buenos Aires, 1938-1942. Director general of aviation, until 1947. Commandant of naval aviation, since 1947.
Member, aeronautics advisory commission to ministry of agriculture during locust plague, 1936. Member, International Aereal Navigation Commission, 1944, and national meteorology commission, 1944. Member, naval commns. to Europe and the United States.
Member: Centro Naval, Yacht Club Argentino.