T.3-52 ‘744-52’ from Matacan under maintenance at Getafe on August 18, 1976.

T.3-52 ‘461-24’ at Villa Cisneros, Spanish Sahara, in the early 1970s, exemplifying the early coding system with the Gando-based 461 Squadron.

The two civil registered ‘flight checkers’ (EC-ANV and EC-ARV) with fading high-visibility panels at Cuatro Vientos, August 1978.

Many of the former EdA C-47s were purchased by British dealers and collectors for onward sale. The former T.3-45 with roughly painted-out roundels and the registration G-BFPV with T.3-65 (G-BFPT) behind at Blackbushe, Hampshire, August 1978.

Maestranza Aerea de Madrid, Cuatro Vientos, was the C-47 ‘boneyard’. T.3-34 ‘721-7’ awaiting its fate August 1978.

C-47 T.3.-43 ‘77-73’ was one of the first to join the Jerez de la Frontera-based Escuela de Polimotores in 1962. Note the owl badge under the cockpit and the 'Pedros' in the background.

No.744 Squadron was the companion unit of 745 Squadron, within the Multi-Engined School at Matacan during the C-47 epoch. T.3-64 ‘744-64’ at Matacan, August 1974.

Beyond use with 745 Squadron, T.3-42 joined 911 Squadron, illustrating the code change involved. Getafe, August 1974.

T3-2 ended its life serving with the High Staff Group’s 911 Squadron at Getafe. Cuatro Vientos, August 1978.

In spite of the ‘461-46’ code denoting 461 Squadron, T.3-46 was flown by 721 Squadron prior to being stored at Maestranza Aerea de Madrid, Cuatro Vientos, August 1976.

T.3-31 served with 461 Squadron, initially coded ‘461-27’ and then ‘461-31’, from October 1970 to December 1974.

The Air Academy’s T.3-12 ‘792-6’ awaits overhaul at the Maestranza Aerea de Madrid, Cuatro Vientos, August 1976.

T.3-42 serving 745 Squadron at Matacan as ‘745-42’ in August 1974.

Flying training demands were such that 745 Squadron could not find the time to put their code on T.3-67 before the aircraft was finally withdrawn. Cuatro Vientos, August 1976.

C-54 T.4-14 wore its second 352 Squadron code, ‘352-14’ from April 1973 until retirement.

T.4-10 ‘911-10’, the second of the High Staff Group’s C-54s, at Getafe August 1976.

Initial code sported by T.4-9 while serving with 353 Squadron was '353-23'. This gave way to '352-09' beyond April 1973.

T.4-16 ‘352-16’ in company with fellow C-54s and Grumman HU-16s awaiting scrapping at the Maestranza Aerea de Sevilla, September 1977.

C-54 T.4-14 with its earliest 352 Squadron code, ‘352-15’. CASA Azor behind.

One of the two ‘sacred cows’ from 911 Squadron, T.4-5 ‘911-05’ at Getafe, August 1976.

View of the tail of T.15-1 showing the former Iberia red cheatline.

DC-8 T.15-1 wearing the definitive colour scheme for the type at Barajas, September 1986.

DC-2 EC-AAC ‘Vara de Rey’, formerly 42-1, in pre-Iberia markings at Madrid’s Barajas Airport in the immediate Spanish postwar period.

T.4-16 ‘352-16’ in company with fellow C-54s and Grumman HU-16s awaiting scrapping at the Maestranza Aerea de Sevilla, September 1977.

C-54 T.4-14 with its earliest 352 Squadron code, ‘352-15’. CASA Azor behind.

C-47 T.3.-43 ‘77-73’ was one of the first to join the Jerez de la Frontera-based Escuela de Polimotores in 1962. Note the owl badge under the cockpit and the 'Pedros' in the background.