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Dan Borg, e-mail, 01.03.2018 10:58 Hello. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the Caproni 311/12/13/14, were ever "seen" in the skies over Malta? Did they do any ground attack, light bombing, or recon over Malta, or did their speed and light armament prevent that? I do not want to build one if it never saw action over Malta. My grandparents were born/raised there, but emigrated to the U.S. in 1920's. Nevertheless, they lost a number of relatives in the bombings and rampant illnesses due to the bombings and convoys that only could resupply few and far between. Thanks for any assistance. Dan Borg

martijn, 10.12.2015 16:40 this should be seperated in 4 pages the plane are quite divers .

Mannlicher, e-mail, 18.06.2013 12:33 Did the ca314 defend the sicily in 1943?

Barry, 11.02.2013 14:15 A total of 84 Ca313S were delivered to Sweden by early 1941. These were designated by the Swedish authorities as D16, S16, T16 and Tp16S which were repectively, bomber, maritime reconnaissance, torpedo bomber and transport.

dasunda, 20.06.2011 05:37 However the Ca.310/311 offered ad excellent job as observation aircraft and remained in service for the whole war.

Bob, e-mail, 28.01.2010 22:31 Hi, I'm building a model of the CA 311. How did the bomb bay doors open? Was it a single door on each side opening from the sides or were the doors hinged from the sides with a hinged section on each door as well?

LL, 06.05.2008 22:53 It was a good patrol aircraft when there wasnt fighters around. So ended mostly fighting partisans and patrolling the sea and secundary duties like training, liasion and AAA training, in short a plane in search of a mission. It wasnt a good aircraft(appears 309,314 were better ones) and Capronis were probably the worse quality wise planes in Italian Industry well maybe at level of IMAN. Due to Fascist industrial corporativism the Fiat CR.25 an excellent plane much better than Capronis was only built in 10 while Caproni got 1000 built. Bizarrely Reggiane(from Caproni group) 2000 a good fighter was not build while the outdated Fiat CR.42 biplane was build until 1944(yeah they even sold it to the Luftwaffe) in 1500...

Kris, 22.11.2007 16:40 What about the Wellington or the Fw 189? Those had lots of glass and were successful military aircraft...

3VI, e-mail, 16.10.2007 10:07 The Caproni 306-314 serie aircrafts were developed like civilian high performance planes (like many others in that period) and during WWII were used mainly for recon and liaison. A small number serviced as light bomber only to cope with chronical lack of first-line planes of Regia Aeronautica. However the Ca.310/311 offered ad excellent job as observation aircraft and remained in service for the whole war.

Ken Holt, e-mail, 30.07.2007 18:52 I could never figure out why an aircraft used for military purposes would have so many windows along the fuselage. It looks more like a civilian transport than a bomber. I would be interested in how successful the aircraft was in military operations.