This survivor Fiat CR.42, fuselage code Z-1+2, is an aircraft employed for liaison by Aeronautica Militare’s 1st Zona Aerea Territoriale (Air Territorial Zone), an high command with HQ at Milan, and based on Milan-Linate Airport, on second half of Forty. Also this plane has the wheels spat removed and has the all silver finish typical of post-war Italian aircrafts. Victor Sierra

CR.42: last flights 

A Fiat CR.42 survived to the war and employed by Aeronautica Militare (the new name, still in use, of Italian Air Force after the fall of monarchy) for non-active duties. The aircraft’s state, seemingly on flight conditions, but without the propeller’s spinner and the wheels fairings, predict his unhappy destiny: the scrapping just after the grounding. Behind her the wrecks of former Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force’s Spitfire V phased out just after the end of the war. Victor Sierra

An unhappy destiny

Libyan Rebels Destroy WWII Commonwealth Cemetery in Benghazi. 3/5/12

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