This is a list of aircraft used by the

Spanish Republican Air Force The Spanish Republican Air Force was the air arm of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic, the legally established government of Spain between 1931 and 1939. Initially divided into two branches: Military Aeronautics ('' Aeronáutica ...

during the

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Introduction

The

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was proclaimed in 1931 and very soon the republican authorities set up to reform an antiquated military structure that was a financial burden for the Spanish state following the

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. The Spanish Republican Air Force inherited a great number of airplanes from the monarchy, most of which had been used in the Spanish Campaigns in Northern Africa during general Primo de Rivera's dictatorship in the 1920s. Hostile to the republican reforms, and with many of its top echelon officers sympathizing with the far-right movements of

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and Fascist Italy, part of the military elite staged a failed coup led by

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in 1934. However, the rebellion led by

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against the Spanish Republic in 1936 was more successful and marked the beginning of the

. While more than half of the aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force remained on the loyalist side, most of the material was obsolete. In the summer of 1936 the beleaguered Spanish Republic found itself direly in need of modern weapons, but the governments of the

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quickly led a policy of non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. In defiance of the non-intervention pact some aircraft were sent to Republican Spain from France thanks to the efforts of personalities supporting the republican cause, but these consisted mostly in old material, including trainers, transport aircraft and planes without weapons that could not be used for attacks. Owing to the international blockade against the republic other planes of dubious value were acquired by the republican government through various sources, including

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which included a motley combination of obsolete aircraft, prototypes and almost discarded single models. Some of the shipments of aircraft did not make it to the Spanish fronts owing to the sinking of the merchant vessels transporting them or having been seized by the customs at the ports of origin.Armas en acción. Aviones de las Fuerzas Aéreas republicanas
/ref> The most well-known Spanish Republican Air Force planes such as the 'Chato', 'Mosca', 'Natacha' and 'Katiuska' would come later in the same year and throughout 1937, when the

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would decide to openly assist the Spanish Republic.

Documents

Information, both written and pictorial, regarding the identification of the aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force is found in a variety of sources. These include press reports of the time, official republican government documents, as well as documents and reports from the rebel side. Since republican aerodromes were restricted military areas, relatively few photographs are available. Most are pictures of aircraft taken with air force personnel posing near them in an informal way, as well as photographs of crashed planes. Except for the primary aircraft, certain republican military plane types were never photographed, or if available, photographs have not been found, being only known from written documents or from pilot reports. This is often the case in the assorted —often obsolete and almost useless— aircraft of which only one or two units arrived in the first critical months at the beginning of the civil war.SBHAC - Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea de la República Española/Otros
/ref> There are also aircraft which had been known only from written documents, such as the Spanish Republican Air Force

Farman F.430 The Farman F.430 was a 1930s French light transport designed and built by the Farman Aviation Works. Two variants with different engines were known as the F.431 and F.432. Design and development The F.430 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane wit ...

, of which a picture has surfaced only recently.

Attack aircraft

Gourdou-Leseurre GL-32 Spanish Republican AF

Beechcraft Staggerwing The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative wing stagger (the lower wing is farther forward than the upper wing). It first flew in 1932. Development At the height of the Great Depression, aircraft ...

* Breguet XIXSBHAC - Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea de la República Española/Bombarderos
/ref> * Gourdou-Leseurre GL.32 *

Gourdou-Leseurre GL-633 The Gourdou-Leseurre GL.30 was a racing aircraft built in France in 1920 which formed the basis for a highly successful family of fighter aircraft based on the same design. Development The GL-30 was a parasol-wing monoplane with retractable unde ...

* Grumman G-23, nicknamed 'Delfín' *

Hispano-Suiza E-30 The Hispano Suiza E-30, later renamed Hispano E-30, was designed in Spain in 1930 as a multi-purpose intermediate trainer. It was a single engine, parasol wing monoplane. About 25 served with the Spanish armed forces until 1945. Design and deve ...

* Potez 25 *

Vickers Vildebeest The Vickers Vildebeest and the similar Vickers Vincent were two very large two- to three-seat single-engined British biplanes designed and built by Vickers and used as light bombers, torpedo bombers and in army cooperation roles. First flown ...

Bombers

* Bloch MB.200, photographic data are lacking *

Bloch MB.210 The Bloch MB.210 and MB.211 were the successors of the French Bloch MB.200 bomber developed by Société des Avions Marcel Bloch in the 1930s and differed primarily in being low wing monoplanes rather than high wing monoplanes. Development The ...

* Breguet 413,Jean Massé, ''Des avions pour l'Espagne ! : La guerre civile aérienne en Espagne vue de France'', Broché, 2006. * Breguet 460 Vultur * Fokker F.IX * Hawker Spanish Osprey * Latecoere 28 *

Macchi M.18 The Macchi M.18 was a flying boat designed by Alessandro Tonini and produced by Macchi in Italy in the early 1920s.Taylor 1989, 617''World Aircraft Information Files'' File 901 Sheet 01 Originally planned as a passenger aircraft, it entered pro ...

Polikarpov R-5 The Polikarpov R-5 (russian: Р-5) was a Soviet reconnaissance bomber aircraft of the 1930s. It was the standard light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft of the Soviet Air Force for much of the 1930s, while also being used heavily as a civilian l ...

, also known as 'Rasante'Michael Alpert, ''The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,'' Cambridge University Press, , p. 250 *

Polikarpov R-Z The Polikarpov R-Z was a Soviet reconnaissance bomber aircraft of the 1930s. It was a revised version of the Polikarpov R-5 which was built in large numbers between 1935 and 1937. It was used in combat during the Spanish Civil War as well as the ...

, nicknamed 'Natacha' *

Potez 540 The Potez 540 was a French multi-role aircraft of the 1930s. Designed and built by Potez, it served with the French Air Force as a reconnaissance bomber, also serving with the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. Although ob ...

Tupolev SB The Tupolev ANT-40, also known by its service name Tupolev SB (russian: Скоростной бомбардировщик – ''Skorostnoi Bombardirovschik'' – high speed bomber) and development co-name TsAGI-40, was a high speed twin-engined ...

, nicknamed 'Katiuska' *

Vultee V-1 The Vultee V-1 was a 1930s American single-engined airliner built by the Airplane Development Corporation, designed by Gerard Vultee and financed by automobile manufacturer Errett Cord. Design and development The prototype (designated the ...

Fighters

AEKKEA-RAAB R-29 The AEKKEA-RAAB R-29 was a Greek single-seat parasol monoplane trainer and/or light fighter developed by Antonius Raab, a German aircraft designer, with his Greek partners and was the sole Raab aircraft to be developed in Greece. Design and dev ...

* Avia BH-33 *

Bristol Bulldog The Bristol Bulldog is a British Royal Air Force single-seat biplane fighter designed during the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. More than 400 Bulldogs were produced for the RAF and overseas customers, and it was one of the most fa ...

(1 only for evaluation) * Blériot-SPAD S.51 * Blériot-SPAD S.91 * Boeing 281 (1 example only) * Dewoitine D.27 * Dewoitine D.53 * Dewoitine D.372 * Dewoitine D.510 *

Fokker D.XXI The Fokker D.XXI fighter was designed in 1935 by Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker in response to requirements laid out by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (''Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger'', ML ...

* Hawker Hispano Fury *

Letov Š-31 __NOTOC__ The Letov Š-31 was a fighter aircraft produced in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s in a number of variants. All of the aircraft had metal tubular framing and fabric covering with a metal engine cowling. The first flight of the defini ...

Letov Š-231 Letov can refer to: * Letov Kbely, a Czech (and Czechoslovak) aircraft company * Yegor Letov Igor Fedorovich "Yegor" Letov (russian: link=no, И́горь Фёдорович "Его́р" Ле́тов, ; 10 September 1964 – 19 February 2008) wa ...

* Letov Š-331 (1 example only) *

Loire 46 The Loire 46 was a French single-seater fighter aircraft of the 1930s. A high-winged monoplane designed and built by Loire Aviation, it was purchased by the French Air Force. It was also supplied to the Spanish Republican forces during the Spanis ...

* Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard * Hispano-Nieuport Ni-52SBHAC - Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea de la República Española/Cazas
/ref> *

Polikarpov I-15 The Polikarpov I-15 (russian: И-15) was a Soviet biplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s. Nicknamed ''Chaika'' (''russian: Чайка'', "Seagull") because of its gulled upper wings,Gunston 1995, p. 299.Green and Swanborough 1979, p. 10. it was o ...

, nicknamed 'Chato' *

Polikarpov I-16 The Polikarpov I-16 (russian: Поликарпов И-16) is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain ...

, nicknamed 'Mosca'

Patrol and liaison aircraft

* Caudron C.600 Aiglon * de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth *

Dornier Do J The Dornier Do J ''Wal'' ("whale") is a twin-engine German flying boat of the 1920s designed by '' Dornier Flugzeugwerke''. The Do J was designated the Do 16 by the Reich Air Ministry (''RLM'') under its aircraft designation system of 1933. ...

Wal *

Fokker C.X The Fokker C.X was a Dutch biplane scout and light bomber designed in 1933. It had a crew of two (a pilot and an observer). Design and development The Fokker C.X was originally designed for the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, in order to replac ...

* Lockheed Model 9 Orion *

Miles Falcon The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English ...

Potez 58 The Potez 58 was a family of French light utility and touring aircraft, developed in mid-1930s. They were three-seat single-engine high-wing monoplanes. Design and development The plane was a further development of Potez 43 family, tracing its r ...

RWD 9 The RWD 9 was a Polish sports plane of 1934, constructed by the RWD team. Development The aircraft was a further development of the RWD 6 - the winner of the ''IIIrd Challenge de Tourisme International'' Challenge 1932 international tourist aircr ...

Sikorsky S-38 The Sikorsky S-38 was an American twin-engined ten-seat sesquiplane amphibious aircraft. It was Sikorsky's first widely produced amphibious flying boat, serving successfully for Pan American Airways and the United States military. Design and de ...

B, one unit was used in the Northern Front. Shot down by friendly fireSBHAC - Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea de la República Española/Hidroaviones
/ref> *

Reconnaissance

* Aero A.101 *

Bellanca 28-70 The Bellanca 28-70 was a long-range air racer designed for James Fitzmaurice, Irish pioneer aviator, who christened it ''Irish Swoop''. Although it was built in time for the 1934 MacRobertson Race from England to Australia, it was never destined ...

* Caudron C.59 *

Koolhoven F.K.51 The Koolhoven F.K.51 was a 1930s Dutch two-seat basic training biplane built by the Koolhoven Company. Design and development The Koolhoven F.K.51 was the winning design in a 1935 Dutch government contest for a new trainer. Designed by Frederic ...

* Loring R-3, may have seen active service, but data are lackingAircraft that may have participated in the Spanish Civil War
/ref> * Savoia-Marchetti SM.62 *

Seversky SEV-3 The Seversky SEV-3 was an American three-seat amphibian monoplane, the first aircraft designed and built by the Seversky Aircraft, Seversky Aircraft Corporation. Design and development The SEV-3 was an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane po ...

Spartan Executive The Spartan 7W Executive is a cabin monoplane aircraft that was produced by the Spartan Aircraft Company during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The 7W features an all-metal fuselage, as well as a retractable undercarriage. The 7W Executive was ...

Trainers

* Avia BH-33 *

Avro 504 The Avro 504 was a First World War biplane aircraft made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during the war totalled 8,970 and continued for almost 20 years, making it the most-produced aircraft of any kind tha ...

, obsolete by 1936, but some ''

Aeronáutica Naval The Spanish Republican Navy was the naval arm of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic, the legally established government of Spain between 1931 and 1939. History In the same manner as the other two branches of the Spanish Republi ...

'' Avros may have been used as trainers * Avro 594 *

Avro 626 The Avro 626 is a single-engined British biplane trainer aircraft produced by Avro during the (1918-1939) inter-war period. Design and development The Model 626 was developed by Avro from the company's Model 621 (Tutor) for export to smalle ...

* Avro 643 Cadet * BFW M.35 *

British Aircraft Swallow The B.A Swallow was a British light aircraft of the 1930s. It was a license-built version by the British Klemm Aeroplane Company (which later became known as the British Aircraft Manufacturing Co.) of the German Klemm L.25. A total of 135 were ...

* Bücker Bü 133 JungmeisterSBHAC - Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea de la República Española/Aviones de Escuela y Enlace
/ref> *

CASA III The CASA III was a 1920s Spanish two-seat monoplane, designed by Luis Sousa Peco and built by Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) at Getafe near Madrid. Design and development In 1929 using experience from the production of licence-built a ...

Caudron C.270 The Caudron C.270 ''Luciole'' ("Firefly") was a sporting, touring and trainer aircraft produced in France in the 1930s, derived from the C.230. Design and construction It was a conventional biplane with single-bay, unstaggered wings of equal s ...

Luciole *

Comper Swift The Comper C.L.A.7 Swift is a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft produced by Comper Aircraft Company Ltd of Hooton Park, Cheshire. Design and development In March 1929 Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Comper left the Royal Air Force and form ...

* de Havilland DH.60 Moth Major *

de Havilland Tiger Moth The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and other operators as a primary trainer aircraft. ...

* Farman F.354 * Farman F.480 Alizé *

Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG () was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. It is one of the p ...

General Aircraft Monospar ST-4 The General Aircraft Monospar was a 1930s British family of touring and utility aircraft built by General Aircraft Ltd (GAL). Design and development In 1929, the Monospar Company Ltd was formed to pursue new techniques of designing cantilever ...

General Aircraft Monospar ST-12 The General Aircraft Monospar was a 1930s British family of touring and utility aircraft built by General Aircraft Ltd (GAL). Design and development In 1929, the Monospar Company Ltd was formed to pursue new techniques of designing cantilever ...

* González Gil-Pazó GP-1 * González Gil-Pazó GP-4 * Hanriot H.180 * Hanriot H.437 *

Hispano-Suiza E-34 The Hispano-Suiza E-34, later renamed Hispano HS-34, was a Spanish single engine, tandem seat biplane, designed as a basic trainer. Twenty five were ordered by the ''Aeronáutica Naval'', but only five had been completed when the Spanish Civil ...

* Loring E-2 * Miles M.2 Hawk Trainer * Morane-Saulnier MS.181 * Morane-Saulnier MS.230 * Morane-Saulnier MS.341 * Moreau JM.10 designer murdered while trying to sell single aircraft, use and fate unknown. *

Romano R.82 The Romano R-82 was a two-seat intermediate and aerobatic trainer designed by Etienne Romano with production aircraft built by Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano. Design and development The prototype Romano R-80.01 was a private venture de ...

* Romano R.83 * Romano R.92 * S.F.C.A. Maillet 21 * SAB-SEMA 12 * Spartan Zeus, purchased but not delivered * Stampe et Vertongen RSV.32

Transport aircraft

Farman F-430-Spanish Republican Air Force

Many of the aircraft used for transport and liaison by the Republican Air Force had been requisitioned from

LAPE LAPE, Spanish Postal Airlines ''(Líneas Aéreas Postales Españolas)'', was Spain's national airline during the Second Spanish Republic. History LAPE, often also spelt L.A.P.E. and colloquially known as ''"Las LAPE"'', replaced CLASSA (''Compa ...

, the Spanish Republican airline. * Airspeed Envoy * Airspeed Viceroy *

Avia 51 The Avia 51 was a 1930s Czechoslovakian six-passenger commercial transport, designed by Robert Nebesář and built by Avia. The type was uneconomical in use and only three were built. Development The Avia 51 was a three-engined high-wing cant ...

* Blériot 111 *

Blériot-SPAD S.56 The Blériot-SPAD S.56 was a family of France, French airliners developed in the 1920s as various refinements of the Blériot-SPAD S.33, S.33 design. All S.56 versions shared two new features: the first was a newly designed, all-metal wing, repl ...

Breguet 26T Breguet or Bréguet may refer to: * Breguet (watch), watch manufacturer **Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823), Swiss watchmaker **Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804–1883), French physicist, watchmaker, electrical and telegraph work * Bréguet ...

* Breguet 470 Fulgur, from LAPE *

British Aircraft Eagle The B.A. Eagle was a light aircraft manufactured in the United Kingdom during the 1930s. It was a three-seat low-wing monoplane built by the "British Klemm Aeroplane Company" (which later became known as the British Aircraft Manufacturing Co.) ...

Caudron C.440 Goéland The Caudron C.440 ''Goéland'' ("seagull") was a six-seat twin-engine utility aircraft developed in France in the mid-1930s. Design and development It was a conventionally configured low-wing cantilever monoplane with tailwheel Landing gear, und ...

Consolidated Fleetster The Consolidated Model 17 Fleetster was a 1920s American light transport monoplane aircraft built by the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. Design and development The Fleetster received Approved Type Certificate Number 369 on 29 September 1930. ...

* Couzinet 101 * De Havilland DH-80 Puss Moth * De Havilland DH-84 * De Havilland DH-89M * De Havilland DH-90 * Douglas DC-1 *

Douglas DC-2 The Douglas DC-2 is a 14-passenger, twin-engined airliner that was produced by the American company Douglas Aircraft Company starting in 1934. It competed with the Boeing 247. In 1935, Douglas produced a larger version called the DC-3, which b ...

Farman F.190 The Farman F.190 was a utility aircraft built in France in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a high-wing, strut-braced monoplane of conventional configuration with a fully enclosed cabin and fixed, tailskid undercarriage. Popular both as a private aircr ...

* Farman F 402 *

* Fokker F-VII.3m/MSBHAC - Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea de la República Española/Aviones de Transporte
/ref> also used as a bomber in

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. *

Fokker F.XVIII The Fokker F.XVIII was an airliner produced in the Netherlands in the early 1930s, essentially a scaled-up version of the Fokker F.XII intended for long-distance flights. Like its predecessor, it was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane ...

* Fokker F.XX *

Ford Trimotor The Ford Trimotor (also called the "Tri-Motor", and nicknamed the "Tin Goose") is an American three-engined transport aircraft. Production started in 1925 by the companies of Henry Ford and ended on June 7, 1933, after 199 had been made. It w ...

* General Aircraft ST-25, from LAPE * General Aviation GA-43, from LAPE *

Junkers K 30 The Junkers G 24 was a German three-engine, all-metal low-wing monoplane passenger aircraft manufactured by Junkers from 1925. Junkers F 24 was the designation for single-engine versions of the same aircraft. Design and development The increas ...

* Koolhoven F.K.40 *

Latécoère 28 The Latécoère 28 was a successful French long-haul mail plane and passenger airliner of the 1930s. It was the main-stay of Air France's predecessor, Aéropostale in its efforts to establish intercontinental air mail services and support French ...

* Lioré et Olivier 213 *

Lockheed Model 10 Electra The Lockheed Model 10 Electra is an American twin-engined, all-metal monoplane airliner developed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in the 1930s to compete with the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2. The type gained considerable fame as one was fl ...

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius The Lockheed Model 8 Sirius was a single-engined, propeller-driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee while they were engineers at Lockheed in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh. Two versions of the same basic ...

Lockheed Vega The Lockheed Vega is an American five- to seven-seat high-wing monoplane airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record-breaking pilots who were attracted to the rugged and very l ...

* Northrop Delta, from LAPE *

Northrop Gamma The Northrop Gamma was a single-engine all-metal monoplane cargo aircraft used in the 1930s. Towards the end of its service life, it was developed into the A-17 light bomber. Design and development The Gamma was a further development of the su ...

* Potez 560 from LAPE

Autogyros

Cierva C.19 The Cierva C.19 was a 1930s British two-seat autogyro, designed by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva. It was built by Avro as the Avro Type 620. It proved to be the most successful and widely produced of the early de la Cierva designs. Develo ...

* Cierva C.30A

Captured aircraft

Messerschmitt Bf109B Captured by the Spanish Republican Air Force

Planes of the Nationalist Spanish Air Force that fell into the hands of the Republicans. * Fiat CR.32, a number of these biplanes were captured and incorporated into the Republican Air Force. One of them was sent to the training facility at

El Carmolí El Carmolí is an area in Los Urrutias, Cartagena municipality, in the Campo de Cartagena comarca, Region of Murcia, southeastern Spain. It used to be the site of a military air base, located near a homonymous hill in the flat Mar Menor area. One ...

.Rafael Ángel Permuy López, ''La identificación y denominación de los aviones militares españoles'' (1911 - 1936)
/ref> *

Heinkel He 111 The Heinkel He 111 is a German airliner and bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934. Through development, it was described as a "wolf in sheep's clothing". Due to restrictions placed on Germany after th ...

B-1, one unit of the

Condor Legion The Condor Legion (german: Legion Condor) was a unit composed of military personnel from the air force and army of Nazi Germany, which served with the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War of July 1936 to March 1939. The Condor Legio ...

captured after a forced landing in Cuenca ended up being sent to the Soviet Union. *

Messerschmitt Bf 109 The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force. The Bf 109 first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War an ...

B, another Condor Legion plane that was captured intact near

Bujaraloz Bujaraloz is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1,002 inhabitants. See also *Monegros *List of municipalities in Zaragoza This is a list ...

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, also ended up being sent to the USSR. *

Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 The Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 ''Pipistrello'' (Italian: bat) was the first three-engine bomber/transport aircraft serving in the Italian ''Regia Aeronautica''.Angelucci and Matricardi 1978, p. 188. When it appeared in 1935, it represented a real s ...

A, a bomber of the

Aviazione Legionaria The Legionary Air Force ( it, Aviazione Legionaria, es, Aviación Legionaria) was an expeditionary corps from the Italian Royal Air Force that was set up in 1936. It was sent to provide logistical and tactical support to the Nationalist facti ...

, was incorporated into the Republican Air Force.

References

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