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have our well and time was running out.
The next day, October 4th, the Macchi C.205
Veltro was scanned. A beautifully restored
example stands in the entrance hall of the
administrative building at Leonardo, formerly
Aermacchi, on the outskirts of Venegono
Superiore. The machine is repaired to essentially
an airworthy condition, but it is evidently not
expected to ever fly again. Aermacchi owned an
airworthy Veltro that was severely damaged in
a crash. The crash damage prevented the
machine from being repaired to airworthy
condition again, so it was refurbished for static
display purposes for the museum, and the
company traded it with the National Technical
Museum of Milan (Museo nazionale scienza
e technologia Leonardo da Vinci) for another
Veltro that was in good airworthy condition.
However, after the repair work was complete
The Volandia Museum is built on the site
of the Caproni factory, founded in 1910.
Jakub Nademlejnsky got some additional
data about SF-260 for our colleagues
at Special Hobby.
In the lobby of Leonardo's office building is, of course, the original Macchi C. 205V. Working on such a machine is
a sheer joy!
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