The former Yugoslav Royal Air Force’s D-17Ka-3 of Italian Regia Aeronautica on the Guidonia’s Flight Test Center, near Rome, where it was tested until September 1943. After this date the fate of this plane is unknown. Victor Sierra

The Do-17K at Guidonia

Side view of the former Royal Yugoslav Air Force’s Dornier Do-17Ka-3 commandeered by Italian Regia Aeronautica in the Spring 1941. At the beginning of German invasion of Yugoslavia, on April 1941 the Royal Yugoslav Royal Air Force had some 60 Dornier Do-17Ks in service with the 3 Vazduhoplovni Puk (3rd Bomber Regiment) composed by two groups: the 63rd Bomber Group at Petrovac near Skopje and the 64th Bomber Group at Mileševo near Priština. The Luftwaffe destroyed 26 of these Yugoslav Do-17 in the initial assault. Total Yugoslav losses stood at four destroyed in aerial combat and 45 on the ground. Other five Yugoslav Dorniers escape in the Greece not again occupied were destroyed at Paramythia Airfield by an attack of Italian aircraft. Victor Sierra

Yugoslav Do-17 commandeered by Italians

This planes in Regia Aeronautica marking is the Hawker Hurricane Mark I fighter of Air Force of the Royal Yugoslav Army captured by Italians on Mostar Airfield on 16 April 1941, just one day before the Yugoslav Government’s surrender (17 April 1941) after only eleven day of war against the attack of Germany and Italy. This Italian Hurricane’s photo was taken at Italian Flight Test Center on Guidonia Airport where was transferred from Yugoslavia. On 29 September 1941 the former Yugoslav Hurricane was exhibited to Duce Benito Mussolini on Rome’s Ciampino Airport. Employed for various duties, included the role of “British fighter” in some propaganda’s movies, the former Yugoslav Hurricane was finally destroyed in an incident at beginning of 1943. Victor Sierra