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The start of the Santiago de la Ribera naval air base

San Javier, Mar Menor, Murcia

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The start of the Santiago de la Ribera naval air base

Historical milestone · San Javier, Mar Menor, Murcia

Image of San Javier, not of the place itself.

Work on the naval air base beside the shore of the Mar Menor began in 1927 under the Navy; from those installations would later be born the Academia General del Aire, which has marked the life of the municipality ever since.

1927

Photo: Jmll (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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