page_title: Spartan Executive
section_title: Military operators
hierarchical_section_title: Spartan Executive / Military operators
caption_attribution_description: A Spartan Executive 7 arriving for the 2014 Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford, England. The Spartan Aircraft Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, built 34 of these. It was a luxury executive transport, with an interior seating four to five. Nigel Pickard keeps two of them at Little Gransden in Cambridgeshire, and it is one of these that is shown here.
context_page_description: The Spartan 7W Executive is a cabin monoplane aircraft that was produced by the Spartan Aircraft Company during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The 7W features an all-metal fuselage, as well as a retractable undercarriage. The 7W Executive was popular with affluent buyers worldwide.
context_section_description:  Canada
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  Three examples based in Montreal, formerly Royal Air Force examples used in California.
   China
  Chinese Nationalist Air Force
  The second prototype was exported to China and serialed 1309. It was damaged beyond repair and captured by the Japanese who displayed it along with other captured Chinese aircraft.
   Spanish Republic
  Spanish Republican Air Force/Aviación Nacional
  At least one example was received by the LAPE (Líneas Aéreas Postales Españolas) to be used as an airliner marked as EC-AGM until requisitioned by the Spanish Republican Air Force and marked as 30+74. It was later captured by the Nationalists. Several others were purchased by the Republicans.
   United Kingdom
  Royal Air Force
  One example (AX666) was built for King Ghazi of Iraq. Used by No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF.
  Three examples with serials KD100, KD101 and KD102 were used in California for flight training.
   United States
  United States Army Air Corps/United States Army Air Forces
  16 examples impressed from civil owners. All but two survived to return to civil service.
caption: An Executive 7W arrives for the 2014 Royal International Air Tattoo, England
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