Italian planes in World War II

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The following Italian aircraft were used by the Regia Aeronautica (and to a large extent also by the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana and the Aeronautica Cobelligerante Italiana ) during the Second World War:

Fighter planes

Own fighters

Imported fighters

Captured fighters

Bomb planes

Own bomb planes

Imported bomber planes

Captured bombers

  • Consolidated B-24 Liberator (USA) - a machine captured and flown and then transferred to Germany in the summer of 1943 with civil code I-RAIN
  • Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 (France) - mainly used for training purposes
  • Breguet Br. 693 (France) - mainly used for training and liaison purposes, but also as a scout

Dive fighter aircraft

Own dive fighters

  • Breda
    • Breda Ba.65 Nibbio (Habicht) - originally not designed as a dive fighter, but used quite successfully as such
    • Breda Ba.88 Lince (Lynx) - originally not designed as a dive fighter, but used as such with moderate success

Imported dive fighters

Attack aircraft

Own attack aircraft

Imported attack aircraft

  • Junkers Ju 87 Stuka "Picchiatello" (Germany) - also used to a small extent as an attack aircraft

Reconnaissance aircraft

Own reconnaissance aircraft

Imported reconnaissance aircraft

Transport aircraft

Own transport aircraft

Former Ala Littoria passenger planes

Imported transport aircraft

Glider

Own gliders

Imported gliders

Training and liaison aircraft

Own training and liaison aircraft

  • Caproni
    • Caproni AP1 (also Caproni Ca.301 or Caproni-Bergamaschi AP1 ) - actually attack aircraft - 4 machines converted and used in 1938 as dive combat training aircraft
    • Caproni Ca. 309 Ghibli (desert wind)

Imported training and liaison aircraft

Naval aircraft

Flying boats

Float planes

Trial samples and prototypes

Fighter planes

Bomb planes

Dive fighter aircraft

  • Breda
    • Breda Ba.88M (3 prototypes converted from the unsuccessful twin-engine attack aircraft Ba.88)
    • Breda Ba.201 - was intended as the successor to the Junkers Ju 87
  • CANSA
    • CANSAFC12 (also Fiat-Cansa FC12 ) - actually a training fighter aircraft but also suitable for use as a dive bomber

Liaison aircraft

Float planes

See also