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No confusion
Posted by Gregory on Thu Apr 04, 2002 08:48:06 AM
In reply top Confusion...!? posted by Lars Larsson on Tue Apr 02, 2002 12:00:23 PM
: Well... According to various swedish publications just the
: upper wing was recovered from 2542. The swedish Air Force
: Museum swapped it together with a propeller an a centre
: piece of fuselage from one (unidentified) of the civilregi
: stered ones in exchange for an Isotta Fraschini
: engine with the museum at Vigna di Valle,Italy in the mid
: 90's.
//Lars Larsson
My Swedish is not so good, so I cannot claim to have seen every CR.42 article published in Sweden. However, I have been following that wreckage for about 15 years now and was among those which collected the wreckage at Malmslatt on 27 or 28 May 1994.
There never was any doubt that the centre section was recovered from a crash site (photos have been published in Italy circa 1988), together with other components including the fin (again, photos have been published with the recovery helicopter in the background). No one at the museum ever described any of these and other components as coming from one of the civil registered machines, which apparently were just scrapped. I would love to be proved wrong, especially if part of the proof included a trail to surviving parts.
happy landings
Gregory