The ''Cuatro Vientos'' was a specially built
Br.19 TF Super Bidon, which
Mariano Barberán y Tros de Ilarduya,
Lieutenant Joaquín Collar Serra and Sergeant
Modesto Madariaga
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flew from
Spain to
Cuba in 1933. The flight, which took 39 hours and 55 minutes, departed
Seville at 4:40 on 10 June 1933, and arrived in
Camagüey
Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.
It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by S ...
at 20:45 (local time) on 11 June 1933, after a flight of .
On 20 June 1933, the aircraft departed for
Mexico City, without Madariaga on board. It
disappeared in flight, and was last sighted in the vicinity of
Villahermosa,
Mexico. No trace of the plane or of its occupants was subsequently found.
[Betes, Antonio]
"Gloria y Tragedia del Vuelo Sevilla-Cuba-Méjico"
(pdf format), Spanish Air Force.
A
replica
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of the ''Cuatro Vientos'' is housed at the
Museo del Aire.
References
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1933 in Cuba
1933 in Mexico
1933 in Spain
Missing aircraft