One of very few fighter planes Reggiane Re.2000s employed by Italian Regia Aeronautica parked at Trapani-Milo Airfield, Sicily, Summer 1941. The aircraft of this photo is a Re.2000GA (Grande Autonomia/Long Range) of 377th Squadriglia Autonoma equipped with thirteen Re.2000GAs. Note the wheels covered by a panel for avoid the effects of hot rays of sunshine on the pneumatics. Victor Sierra

Re.2000 at Trapani

An Italian bomber Savoia-Marchetti S.79 overflying a Sicilian airport after the take off. In foreground the engine cowling of a Reggiane Re.2000 fighter. Victor Sierra

Overfly

The first Reggiane Re.2000 in version (Re.2000 Catapultabile) for launch by catapult from warships, military code MM8281, during the catapult tests on board the Italian Royal Navy’s seaplane tender “Giuseppe Miraglia”, May 1942. Victor Sierra