#spantax

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Convair CV 990 A “Coronado” (1970s)

Spantax Douglas DC-7 at London Gatwick Airport on July 23, 1966. (Photo)

Spantax DC-8-61-CF in Madrid, Spain, in 1973. (Photo)

Spanish Air Taxi Líneas Aéreas S.A. was founded on 6 October 1959 by ex-Iberia pilot Rodolfo Bay Wright and ex-Iberia flight attendant Marta Estades Sáez. In October 1978 the airline put into service its first wide-body aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, and put it into service on charter routes to the United States. By 1980 the airline employed 1,168 people, carried 2,017,000 passengers and had revenues of 9.953 billion pesetas. Spantax ceased all operations on 29 March 1988, leaving some 7,000 passengers around Europe stranded.

Spantax McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (airline-issued)

Spantax McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14