Reducto beach hosted this Monday the exhibition of the Air Force Parachute Patrol (PAPEA), on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Air Surveillance Squadron.
Hundreds of people came to the capital's beach to see how the army paratroopers landed on the sand. At the end of the event, where a banner was also waved in support of the island of La Palma, the “Concert of the Music Unit of the Canary Islands Air Command” took place in the José Ramírez Cerdá park.
Air surveillance squadron
Spain has an extensive network of radars that monitor its airspace day and night. These teams operate from the so-called Air Surveillance Squadrons (EVA) of the Air Force, located in up to 13 strategic points of the geography of the Iberian Peninsula, and also of the Canary and Balearic Islands, which allow the immediate detection and identification of any possible threat to security coming from the air.
In Lanzarote is the EVA 22, which is headed by the commander and head of the facilities D. Francisco Delgado Sánchez. It was created on April 3, 1971 and is located in Peñas del Chache – Haría at an altitude of 672 meters.
These centers are nourished by the information captured by the thirteen squadrons: EVA of which the Canary Islands has two, EVA 21 of Pozo de las Nieves (Gran Canaria) and EVA 22 of Peñas del Chache. The facilities create a kind of invisible mesh that covers the entire airspace. They are responsible for early warning. No aircraft enters Spain without them detecting it.
