Aviazione Legionaria

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Aviazione Legionaria" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Legionary Air Force
Aviazione Legionaria
A pair of Fiat C.R.32s of the X Gruppo "Baleari"
Active	28 December 1936 – 10 March 1939 (1936-12-28 – 1939-03-10)
Country	Fascist Italy
Allegiance	Spanish State
Branch	Regia Aeronautica
Air base	Son Bonet, Mallorca
Conflict	Spanish Civil War
Flying hours	135,265
Commanders
Notable commanders	Ruggero Bonomi Vincenzo Velardi Mario Bernasconi Giuseppe Maceratini Adriano Monti
Insignia
Roundels, flash

The Legionary Air Force (Italian: Aviazione Legionaria, Spanish: Aviación Legionaria) was an expeditionary corps from the Italian Royal Air Force that was set up in 1936. It was sent to provide logistical and tactical support to the Nationalist faction after the Spanish coup of July 1936, which marked the onset of the Spanish Civil War.

The corps and its Nazi German allies, the Condor Legion, fought against the Spanish Republic and provided support for the Italian ground troops of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie. They served from August 1936 to the end of the conflict, in March 1939. Their main base of operations was on Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands.^[1]