Aircraft Photo of I-ALAL | CANT Z.506C Airone | Ala Littoria | AirHistory.net #648644
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Photo Date:February 1938 to June 1940
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID: 648644
Photo Comment

The Z.506C model of the Airone seaplane was a 14-passenger airliner but this first airframe, I-ALAL, was a special which in March and April 1938 made a route proving flight from Lido di Roma to Buenos Aires and back, covering 24,000 km at an average speed of over 300 km/h. Small Ala Littoria titles worn in cheatline. Where is that monument or lighthouse? I-ALAL impressed for military duties in June 1940. Photo supplied by the Fasisct era Italian Library of Information in New York City. Photo from: Smithsionian Institution

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