Close up of a “Chirri”, the Spanish nickname of Fiat CR.32, the Italian biplane fighter arrived in Spain for the first time on August 1936. Employed by Italians and Spanish pilots during the Spanish Civil War, the Escuadrillas equipped with “Chirri” was nineteen on August 1938. After the Civil War was built in Spain under license at Seville by Hispano with the name HA-132L for the new Spanish Air Force. The latter equipped with the “Chirri”, military denomination C-1, the Grupos 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and the Escuela de Caza (fighter school) until year 1953. Victor Sierra

The “Chirri”

Spanish Civil War. The wreck of an Aviación Legionaria’s Fiat CR.32 shot down by Fuerzas Aéreas de la República Española’s fighter on March 14, 1938, en Aragon. Victor Sierra 

CR.32 shot down

Two of four float planes CRDA Cant-Z-506 Airone of Spanish Nationalist Air Force on San Juan air harbor, Pollença, at Mallorca about the end of Spanish Civil War. The number 73 is the type number of Spanish float planes of this type. On Summer 1938 these aircraft equipped Escuadrilla 1-E-73, part of the newly formed Grupo 2-G-62-73, while Escuadrilla 2-E-62 was equipped with the old Cant Z.501s. Two Spanish Cant-Z-506s lost was two, both from accidents. One of this was the aircraft 73-1 crashed in the sea on October 28, 1938. In this accident was killed Ramón Franco, national hero after the trans-Atlantic flight of “Plus Ultra” on 1926 and brother of Caudillo Francisco Franco. Victor Sierra