E.T.S.I. Aeronautics
Higher education in aeronautics in Spain has its origins in a Royal Decree signed in 1928, which brought about the creation of the Escuela Superior Aeronáutica. It was located in a building close to the aerodrome at Cuatro Vientos. The objective of the school was to satisfy the urgent need to provide this engineering speciality with better qualified professionals in order to fulfil the functions required by the rapid expansion experienced by the first Spanish airlines.
After a gap of nine years (1939 -1948), during which it became a Military Academy of Aeronautical Engineers, accountable to the then Air Ministry, it returned to its civil origins as the Escuela Superior Aeronáutica (known as the Special School of Aeronautical Engineers), and became the faculty awarding the degree of Aeronautical Engineer. It later became accountable, as did the other Schools of Engineering, to the Ministry of National Education.
The School moved to its present location in the Ciudad Universitaria in 1954, and became known as the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronáuticos under the Law for the Planning of Technical Teaching passed on the 20th July 1957. The first classes given in the current building took place in the 1961-62 academic year.