Maroto Nube

Maroto Nube
The Maroto Nube in 1925.
Role	Biplane prototype
National origin	Creeperopolis
Manufacturer	Maroto Aircraft Company
Designer	Mauricio Maroto Galván
First flight	1921
Retired	1933
Status	Lone prototype destroyed in 1933
Number built	1
Developed into	Maroto C-1 Maroto A-1

The Maroto Nube (literally "Cloud") was a Creeperian single-engine biplane prototype built by the Maroto Aircraft Company, the company's first ever product. The biplane was designed by Mauricio Maroto Galván, the company's founder, with the goal of being able to fly non-stop from San Salvador to Salvador.

History

In 1921, the Maroto Aircraft Company was founded by Mauricio Maroto Galván. That year, Maroto Galván designed and built the Maroto Nube, a two-seat single-engine biplane prototype with the goal of being able to fly non-stop from San Salvador to Salvador. He hoped to impress Creeperian mail companies and convince them to invest in his company to build more aircraft. The aircraft first flew in 1921. Maroto Galván attempted his San Salvador–Salvador flight in February 1922, but the biplane was only able to fly as far as La'Libertad. Regardless, the flight did draw interest from some mail companies.

Only one Maroto Nube was ever built and it never entered into commercial mail service. Maroto Galván opted to keep the biplane for himself as his own personal aircraft. He continued to use the Maroto Nube until January 1933 when it was destroyed in San Salvador during the early weeks of the Creeperian Civil War after the San Salvador International Airport, where the aircraft was located, was bombed by the National Council for Peace and Order. Maroto Galván kept the aircraft's wreckage in storage, hoping to one day rebuilt the biplane, but it was lost in 1946 during the Siege of San Salvador, likely being scrapped or further destroyed during the siege to be unrecognizable.

See also

• List of Maroto Aircraft Corporation products