The mayor of Los Alcazares, Anastasio Bastida, members of the municipal corporation, as well as representatives of the organizing committee of the centenary of the Air Base of Los Alcazares and the Association La Ecocultural, moved this week to the Congress of Deputies go to the discussion of non-legislative proposal put forward by the national representative, Pilar Barreiro.
This non-legislative proposal created with the aim to urge the Government, on the one hand support and collaborate with the various activities that were held throughout this year 2015, the centenary of the Air Base of Los Alcazares, and secondly, to publicize the birth of military aviation, seaplanes in Spain.
Also hoping to get the support of all parliamentary groups of the camera.
The national representative stressed that organized celebrations help to publicize what it's supposed to Murcia have the first Seaplane Base Spain whose creation was produced in 1915 "to the need to cooperate with military operations were to begin in North Africa. "
Barreiro stressed the importance that has been the basis for the town of Los Alcazares which has brought periods of great economic wealth.
The deputy noted that these acts "must disclose the birth of military seaplanes in Spain, as well as work done for a century of existence of the Air Base in Los Alcazares, where they have formed and still form the most Featured drivers in the country. "
After the Civil War, this base was dismantled, creating in the 40s the NCO School, The Academy of Gun Troop Aviation, which existed until 1970. Currently the premises are occupied by a detachment of the General Air Academy in San Xavier
Source: Ayuntamiento de Los Alcázares