Airbus has reached 100 A400M deliveries with MSN111, the tenth A400M for the Spanish Air Force. The aircraft performed its ferry flight on 24th May from Seville to Zaragoza, where the Spanish A400M fleet is based. In the same week,…

Showcasing Alliance vigilance and readiness, Spanish NATO Air Policing assets scrambled on March 4 to intercept Russian fighters flying in international airspace in the vicinity of Alliance territory .  NATO radars recorded an unidentified track in international airspace over the…

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) delivered the final two MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) and a Ground Control Station (GCS) to the Spanish Air Force (SpAF) on Nov. 23, 2020, completing a Foreign Military Sales acquisition of…

NHIndustries and its Partner Companies (Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo and Fokker) have delivered the first NH90 to the Spanish Air Force that will boost their search and rescue (SAR) and combat search and rescue (CSAR) mission capabilities. The Spanish Air Force…

Spain, France and the United Kingdom will take up NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission starting in May, guarding the skies over the Baltic region for the next four months. The three NATO Allies are replacing air force detachments from Belgium…

The Spanish Air Force, Ejército del Aire, is the third European air force to opt for the Swiss-produced PC-21 Next Generation Trainer. Pilatus has committed to delivering a total of 24 PC-21s to Spain. The single-engine turboprop trainer aircraft will…

Airbus on February 25, 2019 has delivered the first upgraded Tranche 1 Eurofighter to the Spanish Air Force, the aircraft C.16-23. The upgrade was carried out at Airbus facilities in Getafe and involved the introduction of hardware modifications which support…

Airbus has successfully completed the certification flight tests for the A400M Cargo Hold Tanks (CHT) refueling unit, taking a new step towards the full certification of the aircraft for air-to-air refueling operations as a tanker. The campaign, performed together with…

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from the 95th Fighter Squadron, 325th Fighter Wing, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, refuelled and trained with Spanish Eurofighter Typhoons and F-18 Hornet during an F-22 forward deployment to Albacete, Spain, Aug. 16, 2018. The squadron…

Spain did not join NATO until May of 1982, but even before that date the Spanish Government had issued a requirement for a new fighter/attack aircraft that would replace its fleet of F-4C Phantoms, F-5 Freedom Fighters, and Mirages F…

On the 23rd and 24th of January, the DACEX-18 Exercise, organized by the Combat Air Command (MACOM), was developed in the Canary archipelago, with the support of the MACAN Canary Islands Air Command. It is an exercise in air defence…

On 23 January 2018 Airbus Defence and Space has delivered to the Spanish Air Force the first two Eurofighter Typhoons to be produced in the latest configuration with enhanced air-to-surface capabilities. The aircraft were manufactured at the Getafe Final Assembly…

The historical evolution of this group goes back sixty-three years, since its origin dates from 1955 with the creation of the 51 Salvation Squadron based in Los Rodeos, equipped with two Sikorsky helicopters (H.19), moving the same year to the…