Fiat CR.42 N°1 prototype (M.M.4265) camo.

ImportantSimone5 · September 12, 2025, 2:51pm

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Fiat CR.42 N°1 prototype (M.M.4265) camo.

History.

After the wartime success in the second half of the 1930s of engineer Rosatelli’s Fiat CR.32 fighter, he and his technical team began work on a new-generation biplane fighter, following the formula of the more modern and high-performance CR.32. In early 1938, the Italian Ministry of Aeronautics made a request to Fiat for prototypes of the new fighter type, and the request was granted with the production of two “intermediate” vehicles (the CR.40 and 41).
Towards the end of the first half of 1938, the new fighter, named Fiat CR.42 N°1, left the FIAT factories and was brought to the Turin-Aeritalia “Edoardo Agnelli” airport for its first flight. On the 23rd of May 1938, at the controls of pilot Valentino Cus, the fighter made its maiden flight in a camo typical of the prototypes of the time (but not totally standard) before being produced to scale and registered with the military number plate M.M.4265.

The camo.

The aircraft was painted in an ivory white colour scheme (called Bianco Avorio 5) [FS.595B 33613] typical of school and sometimes prototype aircraft. The aircraft’s rudder was coloured in the classic Italian tricolour without the Savoy coat of arms, and just below the cockpit was the standard cockade used from 1926 to 1943. Below the wing edges was the triple-beam cockade used from 1935 to 1943.

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