SPAIN: TRANSPORT: King Alfonso of Spain inaugurates Madrid - Berlin airline (1927)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit King Alfonso of Spain inaugurates the Madrid-Berlin airline. (Uncertain but this may be the inaugural flight from Carabanchel airfield , Madrid on December 14.,1927) which was the first flight of Iberian airlines. ( The German government authorised joiint air service between Madrid and Berlin on December 9th 1927 and money for Iberian airlines came from financier Horacio Echeberrieta and German Lufthansa.) Full Description: NO SLATE SPAIN: Madrid (Carabanchel aerodrome ?) (December 14, 1927) King Alfonso of Spain ( dark haired./ moustache ) with unidentified officials (possibly including head of Iberian airlines Horacio Echeberrieta) and Cardinal Biplanes at airfield / Cardinal blessing aircraft /airline with King watching /crowd standing by airfcraft hangers - bi-plane leaving on inaugural Berlin - Madrid flight Background: King Alfonso of Spain inaugurate