Colour of the Aeronautics Service 1922-1931 (Spain)

Estandarte del Servicio de Aerostación

Last modified: 2006-01-14 by santiago dotor
Keywords: servicio de aerostación | aeronautics service | text: spanish (white) | coat of arms: quartered (counterquartered) | cross: burgundy (red) | saltire: raguly (red) |
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image by Sergio Camero, 14 September 2002

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See also:

• Air Force Ensign 1927-1931 (Pabellón para Embarcaciones del Servicio de Aeronáutica Militar)
• Military Flags 1843-1931 (Spain)
• Historical Flags 1785-1931 (Spain)
• Spain

Description

This estandarte was approved by Royal Order of 15 September 1922 and was the first Colour given to an air unit in Spain. It is deposited in the Air Museum. Military Aerostación begins its activity in 1896 being part of the 4th Company of the Battalion of Telegraph Engineers of the Army. The Aviation Service was created in 1913. However, the first balloon had been built at the Artillery Academy in 1792 and a "Yon" type balloon was bought from France in 1888, which was used by Queen Isabel II in 1889.

The Service participated actively in the Africa War (1909) and fundamentally during the Alhucemas landing (1925), the first operation of this type in history. Sources:

• José Sánchez-Rocha Taboas, Banderas del Ejército del Aire
• Calvo and Grávalos 1983 [cag83]
• José Luis de Frutos, Símbolos del Ejército del Aire

Sergio Camero, 14 September 2002