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Legionary Air Force
Aviazione Legionaria
A pair of Fiat C.R.32s of the X Gruppo "Baleari"
Active
28 December 1936 – 10 March 1939 (1936-12-28 – 1939-03-10)
Country
Fascist Italy
Allegiance
Spanish State
Branch
Regia Aeronautica
Air base
Son Bonet, Mallorca
Conflict
Spanish Civil War
Flying hours
135,265
Commanders
Notable commanders
Ruggero Bonomi Vincenzo Velardi Mario Bernasconi Giuseppe Maceratini Adriano Monti
Insignia
Roundels, flash
Military unit
The Legionary Air Force (Italian: Aviazione Legionaria, Spanish: 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 faction after the Spanish coup of July 1936, which marked the onset of the Spanish Civil War.
The corps and its Nazi German allies, the Condor Legion, fought against the Spanish Republic and provided support for the Italian ground troops of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie. They served from August 1936 to the end of the conflict, in March 1939. Their main base of operations was on Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands.[1]
^Gustavsson, Håkan. "Air War in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39". Håkans Aviation Page.
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