Spanish Air and Space Force

Air and Space warfare branch of Spain's armed forces

Spanish Air and Space Force

Ejército del Aire y del Espacio

Emblem of the Air and Space Force

Founded| 28 February 1913; 112 years ago (1913-02-28)
Country|  Spain
Type| Air and space force
Role| Aerial and space warfare
Size|

* 23,000 personnel (2018)[1]
* 414 aircraft[2]

Part of|  Spanish Armed Forces
Headquarters| General Headquarters of the Air and Space Force, Madrid
Patron| Our Lady of Loreto
Motto(s)|

* Latin: Per aspera ad astra
* "Through hardships to the stars"

March| Spanish Air and Space Force Anthem
Anniversaries| 10 December
Engagements|

* Rif War
* Spanish Civil War
* World War II
* Ifni War
* Yugoslav wars
* Kosovo War
* Libyan Civil War

Website| ejercitodelaire.defensa.gob.es
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief
(Captain General)|  King Felipe VI
Chief of Staff|  Air General Francisco Braco Carbó
Insignia
Roundel|
Fin flash|
Aircraft flown
Attack| MQ-9 Reaper
Electronic
warfare| Falcon 20
Fighter| F/A-18 Hornet, Eurofighter Typhoon
Helicopter| AS532 Cougar, AS332 Super Puma, NH90
Trainer helicopter| Colibrí, Sikorsky S-76
Patrol| P-3 Orion, CASA CN-235, CASA C-212
Reconnaissance| Cessna Citation V, MQ-9 Reaper
Trainer| F/A-18 Hornet, F-5, CASA C-101, T-35 Pillán
Transport| CASA C-295, CASA CN-235, CASA C-212, King Air, A400M, Airbus A310, Falcon 900
Tanker| A400M

Military unit

The Spanish Air and Space Force (Spanish: Ejército del Aire y del Espacio, lit. 'Army of the Air and Space') is the aerial and space warfare branch of the Spanish Armed Forces.

## History

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### Early stages

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The Plus Ultra at Palos de la Frontera

Hot air balloons have been used with military purposes in Spain as far back as 1896. In 1905, with the help of Alfredo Kindelán, Leonardo Torres Quevedo directed the construction of the first Spanish dirigible in the Army Military Aerostatics Service, created in 1896 and located in Guadalajara. The new airship was completed successfully in 1908 and, named 'Torres Quevedo', made numerous test and exhibition flights.[3]

The Spanish Army's air arm, however, took off formally in 1909 when Colonel Pedro Vives Vich and Captain Alfredo Kindelán made an official trip to different European cities to check the potential of introducing airships and airplanes in the Spanish Armed Forces. One year later a Royal decree established the National Aviation School (Escuela Nacional de Aviación (civil)) in Getafe, near Madrid, under the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Ministerio de Fomento).

The established institution became militarized under the name Aeronáutica Española when Colonel Pedro Vives was chosen to lead it as director of the Aeronáutica Militar, Military Aeronautics, the name of the air arm of the Spanish Army. Captain Alfredo Kindelán was named Chief of Aviation, Jefe de Aviación.[4]

On 17 December 1913, during the war with Morocco, a Spanish expeditionary squadron of the Aeronáutica Española became the first organized military air unit to see combat during the first systematic bombing in history by dropping aerial bombs from a Lohner Flecha (Arrow) airplane on the plain of Ben Karrix in Morocco.[4][5] During the years that followed, most of the military activity of the Spanish Air Force would take place in Northern Morocco.

In 1915 Spain's first seaplane base was opened at Los Alcázares on the Mar Menor in the Murcia region and Alfredo Kindelán was named Military Aeronautics Director, displacing Pedro Vives. The Catalan Flying School was established in Can Tunis, Barcelona the following year and Getafe Aerodrome became a full-fledged military air base. In 1919 General Francisco Echagüe replaced Kindelán as leader of the Aeronáutica Española.

In 1920 two Nieuport 80 and one Caudron G.3 were first painted with squadron identification numbers and the Spanish Air Force roundel. Shortly thereafter the Aeronáutica Naval, the air branch of the Spanish Navy, already established through a Royal decree four years earlier, became functional in El Prat, in the same location as present-day Barcelona Airport.[6]

Frontal façade of the Spanish Air and Space Force headquarters in Madrid

In 1921, following the Spanish defeat at Annual, known as Desastre de Annual in Spain, the Zeluán Aerodrome was taken over by the Rif army and another aerodrome was built at Nador. Lieutenant Colonel Kindelán was named Jefe Superior de Aeronáutica, becoming chief-commander of the air force in 1926, at the time when Spanish Morocco was retaken and the Rif War ended.

In 1926 a crew of Spanish aviators, that included Ramón Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Juan Manuel Duran and Pablo Rada, completed the first Trans-Atlantic flight between Spain and South America in January 1926 on the Plus Ultra. That same year, pilots González Gallarza, Joaquín Loriga Taboada and Rafael Martínez Esteve completed the first flight between Spain and the Philippines, in just one month. The expedition was flown with two Breguet 19 and known as the Escuadrilla Elcano or "Elcano Squadron".

In 1930 the Aeronaval Base in San Javier was established and in the same year a pro-Republican revolt in the Cuatro Vientos military aerodrome near Madrid was quashed. After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, General Luis Lombarte Serrano replaced Kindelán as chief-commander of the air force, but he would be quickly succeeded by Commander Ramón Franco, younger brother of later dictator Francisco Franco. Captain Cipriano Rodríguez Díaz and Lieutenant Carlos de Haya González flew non-stop to Equatorial Guinea, then a Spanish colonial outpost. Under Capitan Warlela cadastral surveys of Spain were carried out using modern methods of aerial photography in 1933. The following year Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva took off and landed on seaplane carrier Dédalo with his autogyro C-30P. In 1934 Commander Eduardo Sáenz de Buruaga became new chief-commander of the air force.

Following a Government decree dated 2d October 1935, the Dirección General de Aeronáutica was placed under the authority of the War Ministry, Ministerio de la Guerra, instead of under the Presidencia del Gobierno, following which in 1936 the Air Force regional units became restructured. Accordingly, the Spanish Navy-based Escuadra model was replaced by Región Militardivisions which are still operative today.[7]

### Air warfare in the Spanish Civil War

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See also: Spanish Republican Air Force

After the military rebellion that triggered the Spanish Civil War, Spanish military aviation was divided into the Air Force of the Spanish republican government and the National Aviation (Aviación Nacional), established by the rebel army.

Spanish Cierva C.30 autogyro

In July 1936, right after the coup, the first German Junkers Ju 52 and Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 arrived to help the rebels and the Fiat CR.32 fighters began operating in the Córdoba front. In August Heinkel He 51 fighters were also deployed. These planes helped the rebel army to gain full control of the air, as did the German and Italian expeditionary forces, the Condor Legion and the Aviazione Legionaria. At first, the Spanish Republican Air Force had the control of great swathes of Spanish territory using a motley selection of planes, but the unwavering help received by Francisco Franco from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy reversed the situation. In September 1936 the Navy and Air Ministry, Ministerio de Marina y Aire, and the Air Undersecretariat, Subsecretaria del Aire were established under the command of Indalecio Prieto as minister. The first serious air combat took place over Madrid when Italian bombers attacked the city in a massive bombing operation.[7] In the reorganization of the military in the areas of Spain that had remained loyal to the government, the new military structure of the republic merged the Aeronáutica Militar and the Aeronáutica Naval, the former being the air arm of the Spanish Republican Army and the latter the naval aviation of the Spanish Republican Navy, and formed the Spanish Republican Air Force.[8] The Republican tricolor roundel was replaced by red bands for identification purposes, an insignia that had previously been used on Aeronáutica Naval aircraft during the monarchy in the 1920s, before the time of the Republic.[9][10]

Many innovative, and often lethal, aeronautical bombing techniques were tested by Germany's Condor Legion forces on Spanish soil against the areas that remained loyal to the Republican Government with the permission of Generalísimo Franco. Nazi help to the Nationalist Air Force was part of Hitler's German rearmament strategy and the techniques that German Nazi pilots learned in Spain would later be used in World War II. Despite the devastation and the human casualties caused by the bombing of the Basque city of Guernica in 1937, known by the Luftwaffe as Operation Rügen, Hitler insisted that his longterm designs in Spain were peaceful. He called his strategy "Blumenkrieg" (Flower War), as evidenced in a January 1937 speech.[11] The international outcry over Guernica, however, would not bring about any increase in the military help provided to the beleaguered Spanish Republic.The pilots of the Spanish Republican Air Force, often young and poorly trained were unable to check the Nazi German and Fascist Italian modern-warfare attacks. Despite Franco's claim that both air forces were equal, and despite the help of foreign pilots, Spanish Republican planes were mostly obsolete and often in a bad state of disrepair. Even after acquiring more planes from the Soviet Union in the mid-stages of the war, the Spanish Republican Air Force was no longer able to control the Spanish skies nor match the power of the German and Italian expeditionary forces in specific combat situations.[12]

The Spanish Republican Air Force became practically irrelevant after the Battle of the Ebro in 1938 when the root of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces was broken.[13] Finally it was completely disbanded after the victory on April 1, 1939.

### Post-Civil War era

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A Spanish Hispano HA-200 "Saeta" (Bolt)

The present Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire, or EdA) was officially established on 7 October 1939, after the end of the Spanish Civil War. The EdA was a successor to the Nationalist and Republican Air Forces. Spanish Republican colors disappeared and the black roundel of the planes was replaced by a yellow and red roundel. However, the black and white Saint Andrew's Cross (Spanish: Aspa de San Andrés) fin flash, the tail insignia of Franco's air force, as well as of the Aviazione Legionaria of Fascist Italy and the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany, is still in use in the present-day Spanish Air Force.[14]

After the changes introduced at the beginning of Franco's regime the Air Regions and their Command centres were the following:

* 1st Air Region. Central.
* 2nd Air Region. Straits.
* 3rd Air Region. East.
* 4th Air Region. Pyrenees.
* 5th Air Region. Atlantic.
* Balearic Islands Air Zone
* Morocco Air Zone
* Canary Islands and West Africa Air Zone

Former F-104 Starfighter of the Spanish Air Force

The Blue Squadron (Escuadrillas Azules) was an air unit that fought alongside the Axis Powers at the time of the Blue Division, Division Azul Spanish volunteer formation in World War II. The Escuadrilla azul operated with the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front and took part in the battle of Kursk. This squadron was the "15 Spanische Staffel"/JG 27 Afrika of the VIII Fliegerkorps, Luftflotte 2.[15]

During the first years after World War II the Spanish Francoist Air Force consisted largely of German and Italian planes and copies of them. An interesting example was the HA-1112-M1L Buchón (Pouter), this was essentially a licensed production of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 re-engined with a Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 for use in Spain.[16]

In March 1946 the first Spanish military paratroop unit, the Primera Bandera de la Primera Legión de Tropas de Aviación, was established in Alcalá de Henares. It first saw action in the Ifni War during 1957 and 1958.[17] Because of US Government objection to use airplanes manufactured in the US in her colonial struggles after World War II, Spain used at first old German aircraft, such as the T-2 (Junkers 52, nicknamed "Pava"), the B-2I (Heinkel 111, nicknamed "Pedro"), the C-4K (Spanish version of the Bf 109, nicknamed "Buchón"), and some others. Still, Grumman Albatross seaplanes and Sikorsky H-19B helicopters were used in rescue operations.[18] This is why still now in present times, EdA maintains a policy of having jet fighters from two different origins, one first line fighter of North American origin, and one from French-European origin (F-4C Phantom / Mirage F1, Mirage III; EF-18A / Eurofighter Typhoon).[citation needed]

Although in sheer numbers the EdA was impressive, at the end of World War II technically it had become more or less obsolete due to the progress in aviation technology during the war. For budget reasons Spain actually kept many of the old German aircraft operative well into the 1950s and 1960s. As an example the last Junkers Ju 52 used to operate in Escuadrón 721 training parachutists from Alcantarilla Air Base near Murcia, until well into the 1970s. The CASA 352 and the CASA 352L were developments built by CASA in the 1950s.[19]

Links were established in the 1950s with the United States. Spain received its first jets, like the F-86 Sabre and Lockheed T-33 together with training and transport planes like the T-6 Texan, C-47 and C-54,[20] and the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor.[21] The first series of American jets was replaced in the 1960s by newer fighters like the F-104 Starfighter, F-4C Phantom and F-5 Freedom Fighter

### Present times

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Spanish Dassault Mirage F1

After the death of dictator Franco in 1975 and the ensuing Spanish transition to democracy years, the organization and equipment of the Spanish Air Force was again modernised to prepare for Spain's membership of NATO in 1982. Planes like the Mirage III and Mirage F1 were bought from France and became the backbone of the Air Force during the 1970s and part of the 1980s. French fighters formed the air force's mainstay until the arrival of the American F/A-18. Spanish F/A-18s participated in the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War under NATO command, based in Aviano, Italy.[22] Assisted by USAF F-16s, Spanish Air Force EF-18As dropped laser-guided bombs on Bosnian Serb ammunition depots at Pale, on 25 and 26 May 1994.[23]

EF-18A taking off and banking to the left in 2015

The Spanish Air and Space Force is replacing older aircraft in the inventory with newer ones including Eurofighter Typhoon and the recently introduced Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter. Both are manufactured with Spanish participation; EADS CASA makes the Eurofighter's right wing and leading edge slats,[24] and participates in the testing and assembly of the airlifter.[25]

Unlike the air forces of most major NATO member states, the Spanish Air and Space Force currently do not operate any AEW&C aircraft.

Its aerobatic display team is the Patrulla Aguila, which flies the CASA C-101 Aviojet.[26] Its helicopter display team, Patrulla Aspa, flies the Eurocopter EC-120 Colibrí.

In July 2014 the Spanish Air Force joined the European Air Transport Command, headquartered at Eindhoven Airbase in the Netherlands.[27]

The Spanish Government announced in June 2022 that the Spanish Air Force would be renamed as the Spanish Air and Space Force.[28]

On January 9, 2024, the Space Command was formally established.[29]

## Organization

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Main article: Structure of the Spanish Air and Space Force

The basic organization of the Air and Space Force is the following:

* Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force (JEMAE)
* Air and Space Force Headquarters (CGEAE) in Madrid
* Combat Air Command (MACOM) at Torrejón Air Base
* General Air Command (MAGEN) in Madrid
* Canary Islands Air Command (MACAN) in Las Palmas
* Logistic Support command (MALOG) in Madrid
* Personnel Command (MAPER) in Madrid
* Economic Affairs Directorate (DAE) in Madrid

### Force structure

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The main operational formation of the SAF is the ala (wing), roughly equivalent to an army brigade. An ala is normally composed of three grupos (groups, army regiment equivalents) - an operations group called Grupo de Fuerzas Aéreas (Air Force Group, shortened to Grupo and followed by a numerical) including the aviation squadrons and a flight operations support squadron. An operations group is normally composed of two or three escuadrones (squadrons), each one normally consisting of 18 to 24 aircraft. Thus, Ala 15, with its base in Zaragoza Air Base, is formed by two squadrons with 18 F/A-18s each. Another group within the wing is the Grupo de Material, providing maintenance and repairs to the aircraft, their weapons and systems. The Grupo de Apoyo completes the typical wing structure and it is the air base group, providing the functioning of the air base as a military installation. A variation of the wing structure is the Ala 11 in Morón de la Frontera air base, which has not one, but two operational groups. The Grupo 11 operates Eurofighter aircraft in the multi-mission fighter role, while the Grupo 22 operates P-3 Orion aircraft in the maritime patrol and ASW role and correspondingly there are two separate maintenance squadrons for the two aircraft types.[30]

Smaller operational units are the separate groups. They are also army regiment equivalents, but unlike the wings they are composite units, in which the operational aircraft, the maintenance and the air base squadrons report directly to the group. Such example is the 47/o. Grupo Mixto de Fuerzas Aéreas (47th Air Force Composite Group) a mixed intelligence, electronic warfare and aerial navigation systems calibration unit at Torrejón de Ardoz air base.[31]

When an air base houses more than one ala or multiple separate grupos, the function of a lodger unit is provided by an air force installation unit (an army regiment equivalent) called Groupment of the ... Air Force Base (Agrupación de la Base Aérea de ...). Three such examples are the Agrupación de la Base Aérea de Torrejon,[32] the Agrupación de la Base Aérea de Cuatro Vientos[33] and the Agrupación de la Base Aérea de Zaragoza.[34] An agrupación could be responsible for the support of air force operations at more than one airfield (military or civilian). As an example the Groupment of the Zaragoza Air Force Base is responsible for the mixed use military / civilian airfields of Zaragoza, Logroño-Agoncillo and Huesca-Pirineos. An air force base, which does not house flying units is classified as an Acuartelamiento Aéreo (roughly translated as Air Force Installation in English, one such example is the Acuartelamiento Aéreo Bardenas, supporting the Bardenas Reales training range) and an airfield, which does not house permanently flying units is classified as an Aerodromo Militar (military airfield), such as the Aerodromo Militar de Pollensa.

### Air bases

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* Alcantarilla Air Base
* Armilla Air Base
* Cuatro Vientos Air Base
* Gando Air Base
* Getafe Air Base
* Los Llanos Air Base
* Matacán Air Base
* Morón Air Base
* San Javier Air Base
* Santiago Air Base
* Son San Joan Air Base
* Talavera Air Base
* Torrejón Air Base
* Villanubla Air Base
* Zaragoza Air Base

#### Defunct air bases

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* Agoncillo Air Base (FAMET base now)
* Manises Air Base (Part of Valencia Airport)
* Reus Air Base (Now as Reus Airport)
* Villafría Air Base

## Aircraft

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### Current inventory

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A Spanish Typhoon over RIAT in 2006 An Airbus A400M on approach A CASA C-101EB, used for jet training An AS332B1 Super Puma flies over Los Llanos Air Base. Aircraft  | Origin  | Type  | Variant  | In service  | Notes

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Combat aircraft
F/A-18 Hornet | United States | multirole | EF

18A+

| 70[35] | 1 crashed in 2024[36]
EF-18BM | 12[35] | provide conversion training
Eurofighter Typhoon | Italy, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom  | multirole | T1 | 17[37] | Modernised OFP-02
T2 | 32[37] |
T3A | 19[37] | 20 ordered in 2022 and 25 ordered in 2024
Maritime patrol
CASA C-212 | Spain  | maritime patrol |  | 3[35] |
CASA CN-235 | Spain  | patrol / SAR | CN-235 D.4 VIGMA  | 9[35] | 1 aircraft used for surveillance
Reconnaissance
Cessna Citation V | United States  | aerial reconnaissance |  | 3[38] | [39]
Electronic warfare
Dassault Falcon 20 | France | electronic-warfare  | 20E  | 1[35] |
Transport
Airbus A330 | France  | Troop and cargo transport  |  | 3  | To be converted to A330 MRTT
Airbus A400M | Spain  | Multirole strategic, tactical airlift & aerial refueling |  | 17[40] | 10 more on order
CASA C-212 | Spain  | transport  |  | 8[35] |
CASA C-295 | Spain  | tactical airlift | T21  | 13[41] |
King Air | United States  | utility | C90A | 3[35] |
Airbus A310 | Multi-national  | VIP transport | A310-304  | 2[42] |
Dassault Falcon 900 | France  | VIP transport  | Falcon 900B  | 5[43] |
Aerial firefighting
Bombardier CL-215 | Canada | water bomber  |  | 14[44] |
Bombardier CL-415 | Canada  | water bomber |  | 3[44] |
Helicopters
NHI NH90 | Europe | utility | TTH | 6  | 6 on order[35]
Sikorsky S-76 | United States  | Trainer / SAR | S-76C  | 8[35] | Replaced by H-135

All units sent to 49th Wing for SAR operations.

AS332 Super Puma | France | utility / CSAR | AS332B/B1  | 12[35] | To be replaced by NH90 TTH[45]
Trainer aircraft
T-35 Pillán | Chile | basic trainer |  | 34[35] |
Pilatus PC-21 | Switzerland | advanced trainer |  | 24[35] | 16 on order[46]
Northrop F-5 | United States  | jet trainer | F-5BM | 19[35] |
CASA C-101 | Spain  | jet trainer | C-101EB | 41[35] |
Eurocopter EC120 | France  | rotorcraft trainer  |  | 14[35] |
Airbus H135 | Germany  | rotorcraft trainer  | TH135  | 4[47] | 7 more being delivered between 2023 and 2026[48]
UAV
MQ-9A Predator B | United States  | MALE UCAV | MQ-9A Block 5  | 4[49] |

### Future aircraft types

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Aircraft  | Origin  | Type  | Variant  | Quantity  | Notes

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Combat aircraft
Eurofighter Typhoon | Italy,

Germany, Spain, United Kingdom

| multirole  | Tranche 4  | 20  | Order under Project Halcon I[37]

(delivery 2026 to 2030)

Tranche 4+  | 25  | Order under Project Halcon II[50]
FCAS | France, Germany & Spain  | swingrole, stealth |  |  | [51]
Maritime patrol
CASA C-295 | Spain  | Maritime surveillance  | C295 MSA  | 8  | [41]
maritime patrol  | C295 MPA  | 8
Aerial refueling
Airbus A330 MRTT | Europe  | transport / tanker |  | 3  | [52]
Aerial firefighting
DHC-515 (Viking Air)  | Canada  | water bomber  |  | 7  | [53]
UAV
Eurodrone | France, Germany, Italy, Spain  | MALE UAV |  | 12  | 4 systems[54]
SIRTAP  | Spain & Colombia | ISR |  | 27  | [55]

### Potential future order

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Aircraft  | Origin  | Type  | Variant  | Quantity  | Notes

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Trainer aircraft
Leonardo M-346 | Italy  | jet trainer |  |  | Replacement of Northrop F-5BM[56]

## Aircraft identification

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Northrop F-5 at Talavera la Real, identified with the serial prefix A (attack) E (training).9 in the Spanish system

The Spanish Air and Space Force has its own alphanumeric system for identifying aircraft. This forms a prefix to the airframe serial number, usually marked on the tail. The letter or letters, correspond to the use given. Thus, C means cazabombardero (fighter bomber); A, ataque (attack); P, patrulla (patrol); T, transporte (transport); E, enseñanza (training); D, search and rescue; H, helicopter; K, tanker; V, Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL); and U, utility. An example would be that the F/A-18 with "C.15-08" on the tail is the fifteenth type of fighter that arrived in the Spanish Air and Space Force (the Eurofighter is the C.16) and is the eighth example of this type to enter the SAF. On the nose or fuselage the aircraft has a numeral specific to the unit in which it is based.

Variants of planes in service, for example two-seater versions or tanker versions of transports planes, add another letter to differentiate their function, and have their own sequence of serial numbers separate from the primary versions. Example: "CE.15-02" will be the second F/A-18 two-seater (Fighter Trainer) delivered to the SAF. In addition, the aircraft used by the Spanish Air and Space Force usually carry a code consisting of one or two digits followed by a dash and two numbers, painted on the nose or fuselage. The first number corresponds to the unit to which they belong, and the second the order in which they entered service. Example: the fourth F/A-18 arriving at Ala 12 will have on the nose the code "12-04". Those codes do change when the aircraft is re-allocated to a different unit.[citation needed]

## Ranks

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Main article: Military ranks of Spain

### Officers

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NATO code | OF-10 | OF-9 | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1

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Spanish Air and Space Force[57]

* v
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Capitán general | General del aire | Teniente general | General de división | General de brigada | Coronel | Teniente coronel | Comandante | Capitán | Teniente | Alférez

### Non-commissioned officers and enlisted

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NATO code | OR-9 | OR-8 | OR-7 | OR-6 | OR-5 | OR-4 | OR-3 | OR-2 | OR-1

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Spanish Air and Space Force[57]

* v
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Suboficial mayor | Subteniente | Brigada | Sargento primero | Sargento | Cabo mayor | Cabo primero | Cabo | Soldado de primera | Soldado

## Spanish air aces

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### Spanish Civil War

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Further information: List of Spanish Civil War flying aces

* Joaquín García-Morato y Castaño
* Julio Salvador Díaz-Benjumea
* Manuel Vázquez Sagastizábal
* Arístides García-López Rengel
* Miguel Zambudio Martínez
* Ángel Salas Larrazábal
* Miguel García Pardo
* Andrés García Calle
* Manuel Aguirre López
* Joaquín Velasco Fernández Nespral
* Carlos Bayo Alessandri
* Manuel Zarauza Clavero
* Juan Lario
* Javier Allende Isasi
* Esteban Ibarreche Arriaga
* Felipe del Rio Crespo
* Emilio O'Connor Valdivielso
* José Larios Fernández
* José María Bravo Fernández-Hermosa
* Leopoldo Morquillas Rubio

### World War II

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Further information: List of World War II aces from Spain

* Vicente Aldecoa Lecanda
* Dámaso Arango López
* Luis Azqueta Brunet
* Vicente Beltrán
* Fernando Bengoa Cremades
* Mariano Cuadra Medina
* Lorenzo Lucas Fernández Peña
* José Ramón Gavilán Ponce de León
* Antonio García Cano
* Juan Lario Sánchez
* José Luis Larrañaga
* Ángel Salas Larrazábal
* José Mateos Recio
* Bernardo Meneses Orozco
* Francisco Meroño Pellicer
* José Pascual Santamaría
* Fernando Sánchez Arjona Courtoy
* Manuel Sánchez-Tabernero de Prada
* Francisco Valiente Zárraga
* Manuel Zarauza Claver

## See also

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* Aviazione Legionaria
* Bombing of Guernica
* Condor Legion
* German rearmament
* List of Lockheed F-104 Starfighter operators
* Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Madrid)
* Patrulla Águila
* Emblems of the Spanish Air and Space Force
* Spanish Air and Space Force Anthem
* Spanish Civil War
* Spanish Republican Air Force
* Structure of the Spanish Air and Space Force

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space policy|

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space policy|

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Clinton
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* Operation Burnt Frost

Obama
space policy|

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* Launch of the Space Launch System program
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* Flexible path
* Mars Exploration Joint Initiative
* 2010 NASA Act
* Title 51
* Space Shuttle retirement
* Development of the Commercial Crew Program
* 2014 NASA Act
* 2015 Space Act

Trump
space policy|

* Re-establishment of the National Space Council
* Creation of the Space Force
* Launch of the Artemis program
* Launch of the Lunar Gateway project
* Executive Order 13959

* China exclusion policy of NASA
* International Traffic in Arms Regulations
* Full-spectrum dominance doctrine
* Budget of NASA
* House Committee on Space
* NESDIS
* Office of Space Commerce
* FCC
* FAA/AST
* NRO
* IEEE
* Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
* Antennas & Propagation Society
* Broadcast Technology Society
* Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
* Vehicular Technology Society

USSR and Russia|

| Soviet
space
program|

| Stalin|

* Operation Osoaviakhim (1946)
* list of scientists

|

Khrushchev|

* Sputnik program
* Sputnik crisis (1957)
* Vostok program (1960–1963)
* Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (1960–1982)
* Soviet crewed lunar programs (1961–1976)
* Voskhod program (1964–1966)

Brezhnev|

* Soyuz program (1967–)
* Interkosmos (1967–1991)
* Salyut program (1971–1986)
* Almaz (1973–1977)
* Buran program (1974–1993)
* Apollo–Soyuz (1975)

Gorbachev|

* Mir (1986–2001)

Roscosmos|

| Yeltsin|

* Gore–Chernomyrdin Commission
* ISS (1993–)
* Shuttle–Mir program
* ISS programme
* Politics

|

Medvedev|

* Medvedev modernisation programme
* 2010 Military doctrine

Putin|

* United Rocket and Space Corporation (2013–2015)
* 2014 Military doctrine
* 2015 Creation of Roscosmos
* Mars
* MARS-500 study
* ExoMars

Other policies|

* Australian space program
* Brazilian space program
* Emirati space program
* Japanese space program
* Kazakh space program
* Kenyan space program
* Lebanese space program
* North Korean space program
* Pakistani space program
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* Ugandan space initiatives
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United Nations|

* International Civil Aviation Organization
* ITU-R
* Office for Outer Space Affairs
* UN-SPIDER
* Space Generation Advisory Council
* Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
* General Assembly Fourth Committee

Other intergovernmental
or inter-agency bodies|

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* Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
* Committee on Space Research
* International Planetary Data Alliance
* International Cospas-Sarsat Programme
* Group on Earth Observations
* Global Standards Collaboration
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* International Mobile Satellite Organization
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* International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
* Intersputnik
* Orbital Debris Co-ordination Working Group
* Regional African Satellite Communication Organization
* Arab Satellite Communications Organization
* Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization

Space law|

* Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963)
* Outer Space Treaty (1967)
* Rescue Agreement (1968)
* Space Liability Convention (1972)
* US-USSR Cooperation Agreement (1972)
* Satellite Convention (1974)
* Registration Convention (1975)
* Bogota Declaration (1976)
* Moon Treaty (1979)
* Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (1981)
* International Cospas-Sarsat Programme Agreement (1988)
* International Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement (1998)
* International Docking System Standard
* International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' (1999)
* Cape Town Treaty, Space Assets protocol (2012)
* Artemis Accords (2020)
* Space jurisdiction
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* Extraterrestrial real estate
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* International Designator
* IPDA standards
* GSC standards
* GEO standards
* ISECG standards
* Various conventions, treaties, agreements, memorandums, charters or declarations establishing and governing intergovernmental organisations or inter-agency bodies dealing with space affairs

Commercial use|

* Space industry
* India
* Russia
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Private spaceflight
* Launch market competition
* Space tourism
* Space advertising
* Space technology
* Space-based economy
* Space trade
* Space manufacturing
* Lunar resources
* Project Harvest Moon
* Asteroid mining

Militarisation|

| Space forces,
units and formations|

* Space forces
* Australia
* Brazil
* Canada
* China
* Colombia
* France
* Germany
* Iran
* AJA
* IRGC
* Israel
* Japan
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* North Korea
* Pakistan
* Russia
* South Korea
* Spain
* Thailand
* Turkey
* United Kingdom
* United States
* History
* Structure
* Vietnam
* Ranks and insignia
* Space commands
* France
* India
* Italy
* NATO
* NORAD
* United Kingdom
* United States

|

Space warfare|

* Space domain awareness
* Space weapon
* Anti-satellite weapon
* China
* India
* Russia
* United States
* Kinetic bombardment
* Kill vehicle
* Missile defense
* Military satellite
* Reconnaissance satellite
* Spaceplane
* Satellite jamming

Space advocacy|

* Air & Space Forces Association
* Alliance for Space Development
* National Space Society
* Space Frontier Foundation
* Mars Society
* Moon Society
* Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
* Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
* British Interplanetary Society
* Coalition for Deep Space Exploration
* International Academy of Astronautics
* International Astronautical Federation
* International Astronomical Union
* Lunar Explorers Society
* Space Exploration Alliance
* Space Fellowship
* Space Force Association
* Space Foundation
* The Planetary Society

* v
* t
* e

Public-sector space agencies

Africa|

| Pan-African
and pan-Arab|

* RASCOM
* Arabsat

|

National|

* ASAL
* EgSA
* NARSS
* ESSTI
* GSSTC
* KSA
* NASRDA
* SANSA

Americas|

| North America|

* CSA
* NASA
* NESDIS
* OSC
* FAA/AST
* FCC
* USSF
* USSPACECOM
* NRO

|

Latin America
and the Caribbean|

* ALCE
* AEM
* CONAE
* ABE
* AEB
* DCTA
* INPE
* ITA
* CCE
* ABAE
* IVIC

Asia|

| Pan-Asian|

* APSCO

|

Central Asia|

* KazCosmos1
* Roscosmos1
* SRI
* VK
* TNSA1

East Asia|

* CNSA
* SASTIND
* CASC
* CALT
* CAST
* CCF
* CGWIC
* PLAASF
* CASIC
* JAXA
* ISAS
* JSS
* NICT
* NATA
* KASA
* KARI
* KASI
* SaTReC
* TASA

South Asia|

* SPARRSO
* ISRO 2
* Antrix Corp
* DoS
* NRSC
* DSA
* SUPARCO

Southeast Asia|

* BRIN
* ORPA
* INASA
* MYSA
* PhilSA
* SSTL
* GISTDA
* VNSC

West Asia|

* ArmCosmos1
* MAKA1
* NSSA
* NEHSA
* ISA
* ISRC
* ISA
* NCSR
* SSA
* KACST-SRI
* SSA2
* GORS
* TUA
* TÜBİTAK UZAY
* UAESA (MBRSC)

Europe|

| Pan-European|

* CEN/CENELEC
* CEPT
* ETSI
* Eurocontrol
* ECAC
* ESA
* ECSS
* ESTEC
* EAC
* ESRIN
* ECSAT
* ESAC
* ESOC
* ESTRACK
* Guiana Space Centre
* EUMETSAT
* EUTELSAT IGO
* ESO

|

EU and EEA|

* DG DEFIS
* EUSPA
* EU SatCen
* EASA
* BEREC
* ALR 2
* BELSPO
* BIRA-IASB
* SRTI2
* CSO2
* DTU Space
* ESO1
* CNES2
* AAE
* CdE
* DLR2
* HSA
* HSO2
* ASI
* LSA
* LSO1
* SRON
* NSO
* NOSA
* POLSA2
* CBK PAN
* UKE
* KRRiT
* ORO
* ULC
* PTSPACE
* ROSA2
* INTA
* AEC
* EAE
* AEE
* SNSA

Other|

* ArmCosmos1
* MAKA1
* BSA1
* KazCosmos1
* Roscosmos1
* SRI
* VVKO
* SSO
* TUA
* TÜBİTAK UZAY
* SSAU1
* UKSA 2

Oceania|

* ASA
* CSIRO
* NZSA

World|

* CCSDS
* CEOS
* COSPAR
* IPDA
* Cospas-Sarsat
* GEO
* GSC
* IADC
* ICSMD
* IMSO
* ISECG
* ISS MCB
* ITSO
* Intersputnik
* ODCWG
* ITU-R
* UNCOPUOS
* UNOOSA

Former|

* BNSC
* KCST
* LAPAN
* NAL
* NASDA
* SSP
* Interkosmos

* See also: Timeline of first orbital launches by country
* 1 Preceded by the Soviet space program
* 2 Preceded by Interkosmos participation

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