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[2] The republican government of Spain compensated CLASSA's shareholders and established postal contracts in order to make the new airline viable.

[4] By June 1936 the company's Canary Islands line included an air service between Las Palmas and Tenerife.

There was also a flight Madrid-Santander until mid-1937 when Santander fell into Nationalist hands that was flying in a wide roundabout in order to avoid the fronts.

Whenever the air battles over Madrid became too difficult to handle for the LAPE pilots, the Madrid-Barcelona line was replaced by Barcelona-Albacete.

[6] Finally in April 1939, after the defeat of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces that marked the end of the Civil War, the planes belonging to LAPE's fleet were expropriated by the Francoist government and repainted with the Iberia livery.

A LAPE Douglas DC-2 behind the plane in the foreground at Paris – Le Bourget Airport
LAPE Breguet 470 Fulgur that flew the Barcelona - Toulouse line and fled to France at the end of the Civil War