He served as a pilot in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War from December 1936 to February 1937, and was injured in January 1937.
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It was reconverted to a military airfield during the Spanish Civil War, first by the Spanish Republican Air Force, and subsequently by the Aviación Nacional.