Aviation pioneer Joaquin Loriga was promoted to Captain in 1926 after joining the Spanish Military Aviation service in 1920.
Joaquin Loriga Taboada (Lalin, 23 September 1895  Cuatro Vientos Airport 18 July 1927) was a Galician aviation pioneer. As a Captain promoted in 1926, together with two pilots and three mechanical engineers, the first long-distance flight from Madrid to Manila of over eleven thousand miles. Raised in a stately house known by the parish as Pazo de Linares in Lalin, he joined the army and the pilots division in the Spanish Military Aviation Service in 1920. 
