Tablada

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Tablada is a district of the southern Spanish city ​​of Seville in the Los Remedios district with 1520 inhabitants on the Guadalquivir island west of the port and south of the exhibition center or the April Fair of Seville .

Aeródromo de Tablada

The former military airfield of the Spanish Air Force , the Ejército del Aire , which was inaugurated in 1920, takes up most of the area . At its edge is an Airbus Defense and Space , formerly CASA plant for aircraft production. The airfield itself was closed around 2005.

history

After a first flight in Tablada via Seville in 1910, an aero club was founded in Tablada and in 1920 King Alfonso XIII consecrated it . the Base Aérea de Tablada , the second military airfield ever of the Ejército del Aire .

The Tablada airfield was the first place on the Spanish mainland that the Condor Legion , from Tétouan in Morocco, approached on August 26, 1936 in order to support the advance of the National, especially in the north of the country, among others with the infamous attack on April 26, 1937 on the Basque Gernika . In the first phase of the war, the dismantled machines shipped from Germany via the port of Cádiz were reassembled and flown in here. In December 1936 u. a. the first Messerschmitt Bf 109 for the test hunting group 88 (VJ / 88). The first combat missions of this most built fighter in the world took place from Tablada during the advance of the nationalists on Málaga .

After the civil war, CASA built Tablada 200 Heinkel He 111 in three different versions - bomber, reconnaissance and passenger aircraft - under license between 1940 and 1958 . The first flight of the CASA 2.111 did not take place until May 23, 1945 due to problems with industrialization and the CASA plant was only officially inaugurated in 1948. Head of State Franco visited the 2.111 production and aerial shots of the film Battle of Britain were made in 1968 in the airspace over Seville, using CASA 2.111 "on the German side" and Hispano Aviación HA-1112, built in San Pablo .

Claude Dornier , who was already manufacturing whales in Cádiz between the world wars , returned to Spain after the Second World War and in 1949 the production of the Do 27 and CASA C.127 began in Tabladaa , the Do 27B version here until 1965 was made.

Todays use

Today, components and assemblies for aircraft models, especially those from Airbus, including the horizontal stabilizer of the A400M, are produced in the Airbus factory . In the Avenida de Tablada that supplies from the north to the airport main building, there are theaters, restaurants and hotels.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sevilla.org/ayuntamiento/organizacion-municipal/distritos/copy_of_los-remedios/datos-del-distrito-los-remedios  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sevilla.org  
  2. ↑ Imposición de Condecoraciones en el Cuartel General del Ejército del Aire. ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es
  3. ^ Ian Westwell: Condor Legion. The Wehrmacht's Training Ground (= Spearhead. 15). Ian Allan Publishing, Hersham 2004, ISBN 0-7110-3043-X .
  4. ^ Avenida Tablada.

Coordinates: 37 ° 21 '50 "  N , 6 ° 0' 27"  W.