Cuatro Vientos FIO historic flying day 6th november 2005

Best way to ge there is on the first sunday of the month when they perform an airshow. It is a 2 hour walk from the C.Vientos museum ( I did that the first time ), but now I take a taxi from downtown mMadrid to the “Aero Club””, an historic building with a small tower on top. The static is before this building. Later. around 12.30 they start flying. BW Roger

Nice pics Stieglitz 🙂

Is this where there is a museum? If so, is it far from the city centre and is it easy to get to?

TIA

CM

Great pics! nice to see the FIO fleet in a foreigner forum. By the way, they are moving to Getafe airport (close to madrid too) in a few years

Great photos, really like the biplane formation.

Neal

Great photo’s Stieglitz.
I really like the formation shots.

TMN

Nice pictures J. , very “exotic” !
Thanks 😎

And this was also the last display at the flying day.

So, I hope you liked this. I do hope to go back to the FIO in the future and maybe I’ll post some more Spanish classics then.

Cheers,

Stiglitz

And of course the Saetta also returned to give a nice display:

Then, the Texans preformed a duo display: (I hope you like this TT!)

Take a look below:

After this biplanefunn came another formation display. The well known (at least in Spain) Saetta-Texan combination:

Now the biplane theme:

Once again the FIO flew 4 vintage biplanes in close formation. Taking part in this display where:

This spanish built Casa Jungmann:

Another german shemed Jungmann:

The Bucker family was also represented by this Casa Jungmeister:

And finaly this (not bucker :p ) Stearman:

Here are some formation pics:

Then came another load of classics:

The Dornier Do27:

The nice Fleet 7:

This Chipmunk arrived at Cuatro Vientos on the day of the event and will be operated by the FIO in the future:

The show started with some smaller vintage planes:

This Jodel is a regular preformer:

The Pitts made another nice acrobatic display:

Also there was the Yallow Cub:

And also the commercial aviation was represented by this Stinson in Iberia markings:

And then the start: 😉

Now for the show itself:

Making a welcome static appearance was the FIO Polikarpov I-16 Rata which recently arrived from New Zealand. This original Rata is airworthy and is expected to fly by early 2006.

Just before the start of the flying program, the Polikarpov was towed back to the hangar: