Bebb's Contribution to the Spanish Civil War

I have this photo of the Madrid museum, it was posted on a forum, but i cannot remember the owner, or whwere it came from, so dredit is due to whomever ? Keith.

Further info..yes Cunliffe-Owen etc.

The book ‘The Flyers’ by Brian Bridgeman gives the name as Bebb rather than Begg, otherwise details as per Longshot.

A chapter in the book devoted to the events in question, aircraft was G-ACYR.

Chumpy.

The Rapide was later presented to that nasty little pustule – sorry General Franco – by Olly Air Services. It is now on show at the Spanish Air Force Museum; one of the few aircraft surviving that definitely started a war.

There are multiple references on the interweb.

The pilot was Cecil William Bebb and the plane was an Olley Air Services Dragon Rapide from Croydon hired by a Spanish right wing journalist in London . A British Intelligence officer with right wing sympathies and two young women travelled down to the Canaries in the Rapide as a front for the flight but returned to Britain separately when Franco was flown to Spanish Morocco