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By: 14th September 2008 at 15:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The pilot was Cecil William Bebb and the plane was an Olley Air Services Dragon Rapide from Croydon hired by a Spanish right wing journalist in London . A British Intelligence officer with right wing sympathies and two young women travelled down to the Canaries in the Rapide as a front for the flight but returned to Britain separately when Franco was flown to Spanish Morocco
By: 14th September 2008 at 15:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The Rapide was later presented to that nasty little pustule - sorry General Franco - by Olly Air Services. It is now on show at the Spanish Air Force Museum; one of the few aircraft surviving that definitely started a war.
There are multiple references on the interweb.
By: 14th September 2008 at 15:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The book 'The Flyers' by Brian Bridgeman gives the name as Bebb rather than Begg, otherwise details as per Longshot.
A chapter in the book devoted to the events in question, aircraft was G-ACYR.
Chumpy.
By: 14th September 2008 at 15:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Further info..yes Cunliffe-Owen etc.
By: 14th September 2008 at 17:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I have this photo of the Madrid museum, it was posted on a forum, but i cannot remember the owner, or whwere it came from, so dredit is due to whomever ? Keith.
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By: BlueRobin - 30th December 2007 at 18:18
Just watching the 1983 Granada documentary on the Spanish Civil War. Franco was posted to the Canaries by the Republic so was out of harms way. For the uprising he was to go to Morocco and lead from there. For this a Captain Bebb was contracted from Croydon Airport. Is this the same Bebb? Do we know anything more about the man and aeroplane?