CASA C-201 Alcotán

The CASA C-201 Alcotán, meaning kestrel, was a twin-engine transport aircraft that CASA built in the 1950s for the Spanish Air Force. It came from an agreement between the Spanish government and CASA to produce a transport able to carry a payload of one tonne over 1,000 kilometres. The design was a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane whose main undercarriage retracted into the engine nacelles. Two prototypes were built and the first flew on 11 February 1949. Orders for twelve pre-production and one hundred series aircraft followed, but Spain could neither make engines in enough numbers nor afford to import them, so only eleven complete aircraft were delivered by 1956. The project was cancelled in 1962 with 96 airframes in store awaiting engines, and they were scrapped.