EC-EBB  Douglas DC-2-115J                              (c/n  1521)

                              

                                   Five DC-2s were operated by LAPE in 1936.  Just about all of them saw service (on one side
                                   or another) in the Spanish Civil War.  EC-BBE was actually captured by the Nationalist forces
                                   on 18 July 1936.  Several were modified as bombers.  I assume they took the doors out and
                                   lobbed them the bombs out.  Anyway, -BBE survived that war, and was impressed into the
                                   new Spanish Air Force under Franco as U.2-1.  It later reverted to the civil register, again
                                   as -BBE before being absorbed by Iberia in 1940 as EC-AAC.  The name on the nose in
                                   this shot is 'Sagitaria', although contemporary records show it to have been 'Vara de Rey'.