Date:	Sunday 22 August 1937
Time:
Type:	Polikarpov I-16
Owner/operator:	Fuerzas Aereas Republica Española (FARE)
Registration:	Unknown
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Over Santander -   Spain
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
1.Shot down by Lt. Rolf Pingel during Spanish Civil War.
2.Pingel (2.J/88) flying Bf-109.
3.Three pilots were shot down that day flying I-16:Soviet Boris Smirnov "Pligunov" CO of the "Escuadrilla Vasca de Moscas" who was technically shot down as he reached the La Albericia airfield, hit, and made a turnover, no injured. Sergeant Eduardo Fernández Prada who was wounded, and Sergeant Eloy González Obarro who survived uninjured

1.http://www.luftwaffe.cz/spanishcw.html
2.Revista Aeroplano Nº 39 "Eduardo Fernandez Prada, un ignorado piloto de Mosca"
Raque Fernandez García Pag 77
IHCA 2021
3.Osprey Publishing Aircraft of the Aces 99 "Aces of the Legion Condor"
Robert Forsyth pag 78
4.Revista Aeroplano Nº 8 "Los chatos en España (II) - La Escuadrilla "Vasca""
Estanislao Abellán Agius Pag 62
IHCA 1990

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
03-Jan-2022 17:50	volman	Updated [Registration, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative]
12-Jan-2022 18:51	volman	Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative]
17-Jan-2022 18:11	volman	Updated [Source, Narrative]