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Italian Piaggio P.108 bomber in 1942. A list of aircraft used by Italy during World War II until its capitulation to the Allies in September 1943. After that Italy was divided in two states, the Axis Italian Social Republic in the north and the Allied Kingdom of Italy in the south. Both countries had their own Air Force fitted with formerly ...
Italy entered World War I with an air force technologically comparable to a force on the Western Front in 1914. Lacking fighter aircraft, throughout the war the Italians mostly resorted to airplanes supplied by the French either directly or built under license, tough Italy did also design several planes that entered service in the late war period.
The Italian air force became an independent service—the Regia Aeronautica—on 28 March 1923.Benito Mussolini's fascist regime turned it into an impressive propaganda machine, with its aircraft, featuring the Italian flag colors across the full span of the undersides of the wings, making numerous record-breaking flights.
Interwar military aircraft are military aircraft that were developed and used between World War I and World War II, also known as the Golden Age of Aviation. For the purposes of this list this is defined as aircraft that entered service into any country's military after the armistice on 11 November 1918 and before the Invasion of Poland on 1 ...
List of aircraft used by Italian Air Force [6] List of Regia Aeronautica aircraft used in World War II [7] List of World War I Entente aircraft [8] References
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries ... Transport planes. Type ... Italy: 1940: 3: reconnaissance aircraft, bomber ...
However, on March 4, the sole completed aircraft was lost while attempting its second flight. [10] During 1927, the Caproni Museum (Italian: Museo Caproni) was established in Taliedo by Giovanni Caproni and his wife, Timina Caproni. [11] It is both the oldest aviation museum in Italy, [12] [13] [11] as well as the country's oldest corporate museum.
The first combat use of the Z.506B was as a reconnaissance aircraft and torpedo bomber during the Spanish Civil War.Upon Italy's entry into the Second World War on 10 June 1940, 97 aircraft were operational with two Stormi da Bombardamento Marittimo (sea bombing units) and some Squadriglia da Ricognizione Marittima.