Taken inside a hangar with many rare aircraft present.

Just enough can be seen to work out that this is G-AEPW. In the background is Dornier Do 17 D-APAL which visited Schiphol too that Tuesday. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militare Historie

General Franco flew from the Canaries to Spanish Morocco on this very aircraft in July 1936 to revolt against the government in Madrid. The British plane had been chartered by the London correspondent of a Spanish conservative newspaper.

Captain Cecil Bebb, a British MI6 officer and freelance pilot, flew General Franco from the Canary Islands to Spanish Morocco in this very aircarft during 1936, a journey which was to trigger the onset of the Spanish Civil War. The Rapide was presented to Franco as a gift after WW2

Early production Dove completed in January 1947. It served Olley Air Service and the associated Morton Air Services from May 1949 until withdrawal in April 1967, with leases out, mainly as XY-ACE.