Click to open image viewer. Virtually unknown outside Italy, the C.202 Folgore was the best fighter airplane fielded in significant numbers by the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force or RA) ...

The picture shows the aircraft Macchi C.202 Folgore marked 9476 exhibited at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. The aircraft is one of the few Italian WWII fighters that escaped ...

Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore National Air and Space Museum The Macchi C.202 Folgore is considered one of the best fighter planes Italy designed during World War II. There are only two remaining in ...

During the summer of 1942, this Macchi Folgore fighter was operating out of Libya as part of 4 Stormo, 10 Gruppo, 90 Squadriglia. Formed in 1940, the 4 Stormo was credited with 500 victories. The ...