Date:	Thursday 9 September 1937
Time:
Type:	Bristol Bulldog Mk IIA
Owner/operator:	Fuerzas Aereas Republica Española (FARE)
Registration:	None
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Over Villamayor (Asturias) -   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 Oblt. Harro Harder during Spanish Civil War.
2.Harder (1.J/88) flying Bf-109B.
3.Bulldog shot down by Bf-109. One of the eight (8) Bulldogs acquired by the Republic to the Estonian Air Force (probable Serial Nºs 7447 to 7458). When the aircraft returned from an attack mission. The Republican pilot, Ltnant. José Vilanova Romà was killed. The Bulldog, biplane with radial engine Gnome & Rhone Jupiter was misidentified by Nationalist Reports as a "Curtiss" (Polikarpov I-15 in Nationalist nomenclature). That day, Harro Harder also shot down a Gourdou GL-32, misidentified as a Hispano-Nieuport 52 (parasol wing)

1.http://www.luftwaffe.cz/spanishcw.html
2.Enciclopedia Aviación Militar Española Vol IV
Alcañiz-Fresno Pags 1526,1527,1528,1529
3.Osprey Publishing Aircraft of the Aces 99 "Aces of the Legion Condor"
Robert Forsyth pag 81
4.Revista Aeroplano Nº 8 "Los Chatos en España II - La Escuadrilla Vasca"
Estanislao Abellán Agius 1990 Pag 62
5.Complete List of Luftwaffe Victories
Jan Safarik
www.aces.safarikovi.org
6.2.Relatos de la Aviación del Norte
Victor Luis Alvarez Rodriguez - sbhac

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Jan-2022 07:30	volman	Updated [Registration, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative]
13-Jan-2022 18:51	volman	Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative]
15-Jan-2022 06:55	volman	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Total fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
15-Jan-2022 20:17	volman	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]