Gerhard Fieseler [SEP] conflict
Gerhard Fieseler
Gerhard Fieseler (April 15, 1896 – September 1, 1987) was a German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, and aircraft designer and manufacturer.
From birth to the 1918 armistice.
Fieseler was born in Glesch. He joined the Air Service of the German Army in 1915. Despite a crash during training hospitalizing him until February 1916, he was assigned as an observation pilot by October 1916, flying first with FFA 243, then with FFA 41. In 1917, he qualified as
used the conflict to test new aircraft and revolutionary new air warfare concepts.
- The Spanish Republican government airline LAPE ceases operations. The Franco government expropriates LAPE's aircraft and transfers them to the airline Iberia.
- On the ninth anniversary of its founding, the Fieseler aircraft manufacturing company changes its name from Fieseler Flugzeugbau Kassel to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke GmbH.
- April 3 – The leading ace of the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalist pilot Joaquín García Morato y Castaño, dies when his Fiat CR.32 fighter crashes while he