Fiat CR42 being restored.

[1089maul]

Evening all.
Last week I was very fortunate to visit the UK Imperial War Museum located in Duxford, Cambridgeshire. If anyone has the opportunity to visit the museum then I wholly recommend it. It is a museum dedicated to aircraft.
I was delighted that I had the opportunity to look at a Fiat CR42 being restored to hopefully airworthy condition. Alas, on my visit it was in pieces as the photographs will show.
This is the fourth CR42 in existence. One is located in the RAF museum In Hendon, London. This example crashed in the UK during WW2 as and is complete and original. A Swedish example resides in Sweden and a third is in Rome. The Rome example is a composite of three different planes.
The example in Duxford is a Swedish plane which crashed and lay for many years before being recovered. I am happy to say that the plane is being restored in Regia Aeronautica colours! I attach a few of the many photographs that I took!
Regards to all,
Bob

 

[Saetta]

excellent news, thank you for sharing Bob!

 

[jwsleser]

Very nice.

 

[1089maul]

Just an afterthought, below is a photo of the Falco at a recent display. My understanding is that the place is complete and that all that is required is engine and cockpit parts which have to be made. Why it is pieces is not known to me!
Bob

 

[Saetta]

If they are indeed making it airworthy the plane would require a complete Overhaul with every part certified to EASA specifications, so the dismantling is expected. Curious how they overhaul these things though because there aren't really OEM's any more that can manufacture parts for a CR.42. I suspect there would be a process of using Designated Engineer Repairs (DER) implemented to bring her up to legal airworthiness standards.

 

[1089maul]

Saetta,
My understanding is that the actual plane and engine are ready but is the associated equipment such as oxygen bottles, fuel pumps, instrument panel stuff etc that are needed. To that end, technicians will be visiting the Swedish example of the falcon to examine the parts they need to replicate them. Hopefully then they will be able to get the UK certificates they require to enable it to fly. Will require money so imagine it will take more time! I would offer to fly it free of charge but I cannot fly!! It is an exciting project though.
Bob