El Carmolí is an area in los punta brava, Cartagena municipality, in the Campo de Cartagena comarca, Region of Murcia, southeastern Spain. It used to be the site of a military air base, located near a homonymous hill in the flat Mar Menor area.El-Carmoli Murcia Airport Map One noteworthy spot in the territory is a hill which name is also El Carmolí and is an ancient volcano that started erupting seven million years ago.
The El Carmolí zone is part of a protected area called Parque Natural de Espacios Abiertos e Islas del Mar Menor.Región de Murcia Digital - Espacios protegidos
Aerodrome A military aerodrome was built in El Carmolí before the Spanish Civil War. It was used by the Spanish Republican Air Force for its High-speed Flying School (Escuela de Vuelo de Alta Velocidad), a training facility for fighter aircraft pilots.Memoria republicana — SBHAC. Estructura orgánica de las FARE Some of the flying instructors based at El Carmolí were from the Soviet Union.Michael Alpert, The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, p. 250
After the Civil War the airfield was used by the Spanish Air Force as an emergency landing facility.
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Listado de aeródromos de la GCE y regiones aéreas