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Aircraft carriers in The Spanish Navy

  
Spain has operated aircraft carriers since the 1920s, initially with the seaplane tender SPS Dédalo (1922) and later the multi-role light carrier SPS Dédalo, which was formerly the US Navy's World War II light carrier USS Cabot.
The SPS Dédalo has been replaced as the navy's fleet flagship by the Principe de Asturias.

The second largest vessel of the Spanish Navy is the aircraft carrier,
Principe de Asturias (R11), which entered service in 1988 after completing sea trials.

Built in Spain it was designed with a "ski-jump" takeoff deck.
Its complement would be twenty nine AV-8 Harrier II vertical (or short) takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft or sixteen helicopters designed for antisubmarine warfare and support of marine landings.
 
 
Dédalo
Commissioned: as USS Cabot 24 July 1943
Renamed: Dédalo in 1967
Type:Helicopter-only ASW carrier

Displacement: 11,000
Length: 622.5 ft (189.7 m)
Beam: 71.5 ft (21.8 m) (waterline)
109 ft 2 in (33.3 m) (overal
Draught: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:
Complement: 1112
Aircraft carried:
8 AV-8S and 8 SH-3D up to 33 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters
Fate: Scrapped, 2002
Principe de Asturias
Type: Aircraft carrier
Commissioned: 30 May 1988
Displacement: 15,912 tons standard,
16,700 tons loaded
Length: 195.9 metres (643 ft)
Beam: 24.3 metres (80 ft)
Draught: 9.4 metres (31 ft)
Speed: 26 knots (48 km/h)
Range: 6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement: 763 (total); 600 ship crew, 230 air crew
Aircraft carried:
29 fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft
Juan Carlos I
Type:Multipurpose warship
Commissioned: Expected in 2011
Displacement: 27,079 tonnes (24'560 as a.c.c.)
Length: 231.8 metres (760 ft)
Beam:32 metres (100 ft)
Draught: 7.18 metres (23.6 ft)
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h)
Range: 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 243 + 172 air wing
Capacity: 902 soldiers + up to 46 Leopard 2 tanks
Aircraft carried:
AV-8B Harriers and/or cargo helicopters
 
     
     
       
       
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