In an attempt to improve performance of the Macchi MC.200 “Saetta”, his designer Mario Castoldi created the MC.201 designed around the new Fiat radial engine 1,000-HP A.76 RC-40 but the prototype (military registration MM436) flew, August 1940, with the same 870-HP Fiat A.74 RC 38 of the “200”. At this time the project “202” with the powerful German engine DB601 were already advanced and the MC.201 was abandoned. Victor Sierra 

Only a prototype

The Macchi MC.202D, an only one version of the “Folgore” with only an oil and glycol radiator under the engine. The aim of this modification, make late 1941 and based on a Series III aircraft, the MC.202 “Folgore” military registration MM7768, were the removal of the complex and vulnerable piping. But the effect of the large radiator under the nose was the strong increase of the aerodynamic drag and this attempt was therefore abandoned. Victor Sierra

MC.202D

Alpini during war operations in Jugoslavia. DVX