“This photo was taken during the last course that the Bücker Bü-131 flew, when it was already known that after their last flights they would fly to Armilla to equip their School of Complementary Pilots, where they would be painted red anti-collision stripes that nobody would like. Actually, at least three years before, the transfer of this plane to the newly created School had already begun and already in 1976 the last Bücker had already left the AGA as young and beautiful as the first days after more than 30 years and 176,000 hours of flying breaking new students who still remember them fondly today.“ (File and original partial info of the Juan Arráez collection).
Murcia - San Javier 1975
Juan Gonzales
E3B-492 is now N131DW. I do not have a recent picture of this plane, however the photos given to me from the Bates Collection show N131DW stopping by Bates Airfield sometime in the late 1980’s. It was owned by David Webb in Dallas, Texas at the time this photo was taken.
Today, the registry shows the plane being re-registered to an owner in Chaska, Minnesota USA. Does anyone have updated information?
Brian