RZ 17 W 20 of Spanish Air Force

Updated on January 12, 2014

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Drawing by Tapani Tuomanen

 

R-Z c/n 20 17W was a plane captured and remarked by Spanish Nationalists. It was first repainted (presumably in a green similar to German RLM 62 and light blue), and employed in Larache-Aumara Airport in Spanish Morocco.

In 1939 the plane wore Nationalist insignias with black circles on fuselage, white upper wing tips, white S. Andreas crosses on upper wing uppersurfaces.

In 1942, the plane appears with later Spanish marks as shown on the drawing, and the wing undersurfaces (both upper and lower) partially repainted aluminium.

Below, in the photo, we see the lieutenant Mariano Murillo Joven close to his Natacha, still in old style marks.