I once had a biplane too. I didn't own she, of course, but from the moment her engine was started, with me strapped in her back seat, she was mine until, back on the airfield, engine stopped, strapped off and jump off her seat...

She was exactly like the one in the pic, except she had not the roundels painted, neither in her fuselage nor in her wings. The grey overall colour scheme was exactly the same, with the St. Andrews' Cross painted in black over a white background in her rudder ...

She was a CASA 1131E Jüngman, build under license from the Germans but with an engine made here: an ENMASA Tigre of 125 hp. The Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire) was taking them off from active service, as an elementary trainer. By 1974, they offered all the Airclubs around the country one or two of them, in a lend scheme. Aircraft were completely overhauled, airframe and engine. They offer them at no cost at all and for 400 hours flying time or aircraft destroyed, whatever it came first... I heard just a few of them, less than 10, were given back to the EdA. The rest of them were destroyed in accidents, mainly on landings,,,