SPAIN MEDAL CROSS OF AERONAUTICAL MERIT (WHITE BADGE) 3rd CLASS, CASE, MINIATURE MEDAL, LAPEL PIN, RIBBON BAR. JUAN CARLOS I ERA

Aviation Merit Crosses are intended to individually reward and distinguish members of the Armed Forcesand the Civil Guard Corps , for the performance of actions and deeds or the provision of services of outstanding merit or importance, as well as civilian personnel for their meritorious activities related to National Defense. These actions and events must be related to the Air Force for its concession. 

For officers, non-commissioned officers and troops and civilian personnel who do not have enough rank to obtain the Grand Cross. The Aeronautical Merit Crosses, which will be of equal arms, will carry in the center the emblem of the Air Force, whose inner circle will feature a quartered and filleted gold shield, enamels: first, from Castilla; second, from León; third, from Aragon, and fourth, from Navarra; in the middle there is a blue oval shield (escutcheon) of the House of Bourbon-Anjou (until 2003 only alternate coats of arms of Castile and León);the reverse side, a circular shield with the letters, in gold, MA, on red enamel. 

With a white badge: They will be awarded for merits, works, actions, facts or distinguished services, which are carried out during the performance of missions or services that are ordinarily or extraordinarily entrusted to the Armed Forces or that are related to Defense. The Cross with white emblem will be enameled in white. It will hang from a white ribbon with two red stripes of width equal to one eighth of the total width of that ribbon, which will leave two-millimeter white edges on the edges.