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king alfonso xiii ww2 planes

CASA (aircraft manufacturer)

Defunct Spanish aircraft manufacturing company (1923-2009)

Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA[1] (CASA) was a Spanish aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1923 and began manufacturing aircraft the following year. In 1999 it became a subsidiary of the EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) under the name EADS CASA and in 2009 was absorbed into Airbus Military. CASA is noted for designing and producing military transport aircraft such as the CASA C-212 Aviocar, the CASA CN-235, the CASA C-295 and the CASA C-101 trainer/ground attack aircraft.

History

Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) was founded by José Ortiz-Echagüe in 1923 and began work on a factory in Getafe in May 1924, building Breguet aircraft under license. The first order covered 26 19 A.2s; total production of this type eventually reached 400 units.

CASA built a second factory in Cadiz in 1926 to construct a licensed copy of the German Dornier Do.

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    Alfonso XIII [a] (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African due to his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was.

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  • Alfonso XIII was the second of three España-class dreadnought battleships built in the 1910s for the Spanish Navy.

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      Alfonso XIII as a cadet; by Manuel García Hispaleto.

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  • Alfonso XIII became King of Spain at the moment of his birth in May 1886 because his father, Alfonso XII, had died five months earlier.His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was regent until May 1902, when he turned sixteen and took the oath of office under the Constitution of 1876, when he began his personal reign, which lasted until 14 April 1931, when he had to go into exile after the.

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      King Alfonso XIII visited the main factory in CASA also built the French Breguet 19, two of which would be made especially famous.
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      The constitutional period (–) was the period of his personal reign during which King Alfonso XIII kept to the role conferred on him by the Constitution which governed during the Bourbon Restoration in Spain, although he did not limit himself to playing a symbolic role but actively intervened in political life, especially in.

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  • Photograph of King Alfonso XIII of Spain (left) and Wilbur Wright (right) seated in a Wright aircraft, Paris, France, February Inscription on album page: "King Alphonso [Alfonso] of Spain – Wilbur Wright.
    • sunken ww2 ships The España class was a series of three dreadnought battleships that were built for the Spanish Navy between 1909 and 1921: España, Alfonso XIII, and Jaime I.
    hms canada ww2 Alfonso XIII (born May 17, 1886, Madrid, Spain—died February 28, 1941, Rome, Italy) was a Spanish king (1902–31) who by authorizing a military dictatorship hastened his own deposition by advocates of the Second Republic.
    jaime 1 battleship Sixteen-year-old Alfonso XIII is crowned king of Spain.

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  • Last king, Alfonso XIII, decided to leave Spain after the democratic election of 14 of April of 1931.