The ‘Enciclopedia de la Aviación Militar Española’ was a part-work encyclopedia of Spanish military aviation. It was issued in a total of 130 parts by Quiron Ediciones, Spain. Frequency of publication not known. 20 A4 pages in each issue. Availability: news-stand. Issues per Year: unknown. First Year: around 2000. Last Year: 2012. Language: Spanish.
In 2012 Quiron Ediciones bound the first 120 issues of the encyclopedia firmly into six large volumes with a total of 2022 pages. The front and rear covers of the original issues were discarded, so that left 16 pages of the original 20 for each chapter. That way it was also easier to combine more issues of a single subject. No doubt this was done to recoup part of their loss on the project.
To me, these six volumes belong to the most beautiful and best researched aviation books I have ever seen in my life. Full color photography is used wherever possible, large general arrangement drawings, hundreds of full color profiles.
Volumes 1, 2 and the first half of volume three are devoted to an in-depth history of Spanish military and naval aviation from its origins to the present day. The encyclopedic part on the various aircraft used during that time starts in the second half of volume 3 on page 737 with the Adaro 1. E-7 Chirta biplane (I had never heard of it before either…) and ends in volume 6 on page 2022 with the Cierva C.19 Mk.IV autogiro.
There is no general index, so I created one myself, in English, based on the original issues but with the page numbers of the six volumes. If you interested in buying the six volumes I will mail you the index on request. I will only sell the six volumes as a complete set.
Price: €395,- and that includes shipping to anywhere in the world.