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Re: Fiat CR-42's

Posted by john parker on Tue Oct 30, 2001 03:42:50 AM

In reply top Re: Fiat CR-42's posted by Mikael Olrog on Mon Oct 29, 2001 01:43:06 PM

I thought ther was one in Egypt or at least the remains therof and wearn't some remains in Gibralta or Malta a while ago - also what happened to the three Italian Bombers in Lebanon - there were supposed to be CR42 remains with them?

: I just got a photo for my site some days ago of the CR 42
: for the Italian air force museum (www.algonet.se/~molrog/)
: and as you can see the engine is on and progress on skinn
: ing the aircraft is good.
:
: I think that the TFC aircraft will incorporate original pa
: rts. SOme are reported to be from Sweden and some from Fra
: nce. As usuall when making a flyable restoration, a lot of
: the material will be new so I think that it will be easy
: to end up in a discussion what is/what isn't a genuine war
: bird.
:
: /Mikael
:
:
: : To all,
: :
: : Whilst flicking through the latest Flypast I came across
: a
: : news item about a Fiat CR-42 undergoing a static restor
: at
: : ion in Italy for the Italian Airforce Museum. It also me
: nt
: : ions that this now brings the total of extant CR-42's up
: t
: : o 3, one at the RAF Museum Hendon, one at the Swedish Ai
: r
: : Force Museum, and the one shown.
: :
: : Now I thought there was another example undergoing resto
: ra
: : tion to airworthy status also in Italy for the TFC.
: :
: : Does this mean that the TFC example is not original ??
: :
: : All comments welcome
: :
: : John

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