Category: Italian Aircraft
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Fiat G.55 Centauro in Service With Syria
Fiat G.55 Centauro in Service With Syria The Italian Fiat G.55 Centauro had a brief but interesting post-war career in Middle Eastern air forces, including Syria. Although originally designed as one of Italy’s most capable late-Second World War fighters, in Syrian service it functioned mainly as a transitional aircraft during the early development of the… Read more
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Fiat G.55 Centauro in Egyptian Service
Fiat G.55 Centauro in Egyptian Service The Royal Egyptian Air Force (REAF) operated a small number of Fiat G.55 Centauro fighters in the immediate post-Second World War period, primarily during and shortly after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Although the type had been one of Italy’s most capable wartime fighters, its Egyptian career was brief and limited in… Read more
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Fiat G.55 Centauro in ANR Service
Fiat G.55 Centauro in Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (ANR) Service The Fiat G.55 Centauro was one of the most capable Italian fighter aircraft to see operational service in the final phase of the Second World War, and it became particularly associated with the fighter units of the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (ANR), the air arm of the… Read more