Son Bonet puts the auction of seven abandoned aircraft out to tender in two lots

The Son Bonet Airport, in Marratxí, will sell at public auction seven aircraft that are in a situation of legal presumption of abandonment, divided into two lots. The announcement is signed by the aerodrome director, Isabel Mendiguchía González, and is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) no. 273, of November 3, 2026, Sec. V-B, page 58220, with official reference BOE-B-2026-35893. The call is based on articles 137 and following of Law 48/1960, of July 21, on Air Navigation.

The announcement appears in section V, under the heading of other official announcements of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, and is dated in Marratxí on October 27, 2026. The document incorporates the identifier A260046490-1 and refers to verification at the electronic address of the State Agency. This is the administrative step following the finding declaration phase: air navigation regulations allow the airport manager to presume the abandonment of aircraft of unknown ownership that remain parked and, once all procedures are exhausted, proceed to their public sale.

Two lots and seven registrations

The auction is divided into two blocks grouping light school and touring aircraft, along with a large Soviet-origin model:

• Lot number 1: aircraft Cessna C172, registration EC-ERT; aircraft Piper PA22, registration EC-JMM; aircraft Antonov AN-2, registration UR-84627.
• Lot number 2: aircraft Piper A28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II, registration EC-CZH; aircraft Cessna C172, registration EC-EPS; aircraft Piper, registration EC-DOJ; aircraft Socata TB-9, registration EC-JZB.

The announcement does not detail flight hours, airworthiness status, or starting valuation, and is limited to identifying the model and registration of each aircraft. Lot 2 concentrates four of the seven aircraft and includes three Pipers and one Socata.

Background: finding notices since 2025

The auction culminates a process that the Mallorcan aerodrome made public in installments during 2025, with notices of the finding of aircraft “of unknown ownership and in a situation of evident material deterioration”:

• BOE-B-2025-14807, published on April 22, 2025, identified five aircraft: EC-CZH, EC-EPS, EC-ERT, EC-JMM, and UR84627.
• BOE-B-2025-23671, of June 23, 2025, repeated that list with the same last flight data.
• BOE-B-2025-27171, of July 21, 2025, and BOE-B-2025-30111, of August 21, 2025, added the two aircraft from the current lot 2: the Piper EC-DOJ, whose last flight at Son Bonet was prior to December 31, 2012, and the Socata TB-9 EC-JZB, which arrived at the airport on July 16, 2012.

The 2025 notices also established the length of time each aircraft had been parked, data that now holds value for the buyer:

• EC-CZH: last flight on December 31, 2012.
• EC-EPS: last flight on July 16, 2012.
• EC-ERT: last flight on December 31, 2012.
• EC-JMM: last flight on August 31, 2012.
• UR84627: arrival at the airport prior to 2008.

A bidding period yet to be determined

The most relevant point for interested parties is that the announcement does not establish dates or amounts: “the deadline for the submission of bids will be determined in the auction tender.” Nor are the type of sale, the guarantee amount, or the proposal submission model published in this procedure, meaning that the economic conditions must be consulted in the tender convened by the airport itself.

The Son Bonet auction is not an isolated case: the Córdoba Airport published an equivalent announcement on October 22, 2026, for four aircraft (BOE-B-2026-34407), with an identical legal basis and the same formula of postponing the schedule to the tender.

For light fleet operators, flight schools, and historical aviation enthusiasts, the event is doubly relevant: an Antonov AN-2 appears on the market, a Soviet-built biplane uncommon in Spain, along with three Pipers and two Cessna C172s used for training. At the same time, the file serves as a warning for owners and lessees: seven years of unpaid parking at an airfield are enough for the airport administration to presume abandonment, publish the find, and end up selling the aircraft to third parties, with the resulting loss of ownership.

Source: Official State Gazette, no. 273, of November 3, 2026, Sec. V-B (Other official announcements), page 58220 (official reference: BOE-B-2026-35893).