The FlyParty is a small airshow organized every year by the Historical Aircraft Group, an Italian association for historic aircraft restorers, pilots, owners or simply enthusiasts. This year it was held on Montagnana airfield, a small airfield a one hour’s drive from Venice.
Obviously, it is nothing like Duxford or La Ferté-Alais, but it is one of the few chances to see airworthy historical aircraft in Italy 🙂
This Waco UIC will SURELY attract your attention 🙂
It is a Pearl Harbour survivor: it was flying over Hawaii when the IJN airplanes attacked, and it was attacked itself by 2 fighters.
Stearman
T-6 Texan
This is a Piaggio P.166, an evolution of the amphibian general aviation plane P.136.
Stelio Frati Pylon Race, a race dedicated to the airplanes designed by engineer Stelio Frati. Frati used to design some of the best-looking general aviation planes ever built, and their high performances made them the Ferrari of the air!
This is a Procaer F.15 Picchio.
Frati’s most famous plane is the SIAI-Marchetti SF.260.
The Boredom Fighters Team flies 2 Wolf W-11 Boredom Fighters homebuilt biplanes.
The HAG President flies this beautiful Macchi MB.308. The MB.308, nicknamed Macchino (“Little Macchi”), was the first airplane built in Italy after World War 2. This particular plane was flown by Industria Cortometraggi Milano (“Milan Short Film Company”, INCOM for short, and this explains the registration), which used this plane to take aerial footage for the newsreel La settimana INCOM (“INCOM Weekly”).
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st October 2014 at 09:29
Definitely an event worth visiting…………if the photos are anthing to go by.
By: mike currill - 30th September 2014 at 13:19
Excellent set. Nice to see a P166 in the air, not seen one of those in flight since I was a teenager.
By: slicer - 30th September 2014 at 11:44
Excellent photos and informative comments, thanks for posting.
By: Seafuryfan - 30th September 2014 at 07:36
Superb photos and nice to see some very different aeroplanes, thanks for posting.
By: Consul - 27th September 2014 at 21:25
Superb photos – though sadly I noticed that the Picchio depicted (I-CICO) was reportedly lost in a fatal accident on 20 Sept – see: http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=170025
Tim
By: darren - 19th September 2014 at 22:46
Great shots of some classic Italian types seldom seen here.
By: Kenneth - 18th September 2014 at 20:20
Fantastic, something else for a change! Interesting to see that the Boredom Fighters are registered in the microlight category!
By: pegasus911 - 18th September 2014 at 18:43
Very Nice, good weather to boot….
By: Flygirl - 18th September 2014 at 08:13
Lovely shots.
By: Roborough - 17th September 2014 at 02:03
Great Pictures! I have to agree with you: the WACO is a beaut!
Thanks for posting
Bill
By: Dysko - 16th September 2014 at 17:16
The MB.308, one Stearman and the Boredom Fighter Team flew this “Missing Man” formation in memoriam of the 4 Italian Air Force officers who lost their life on 19 august 2014 in the crash of their 2 Tornados.
Stampe et Vertongen SV.4
Cessna O-1E Bird Dog in the livery it wore when it was used as an observation and liaison plane by the Italian Army.
In Italy it is possible to see lots of airworthy Stinson L-5 Sentinel. Used by the USAAF during the liberation of Italy in WW2, they were deemed too expensive to be brought back in the USA after the war, and they were donated to the Italian Air Force. The Italian Air Force then gave them for free to various gliding clubs as towing planes, where some of them are still used.
This strange flying… thing is the AeroGallo (“Air Rooster”), a one-of-a-kind homebuilt ultralight. It even has speakers on the outside to make the rooster’s cry, and when its display ends the livery designer goes near the runway with a giant fake hunting rifle to “shoot” him down! Oh, and the pilot flies it dressed like a chicken!
Cessna 310, Tom & Jerry special livery
ERCO Ercoupe
Formation with acro glider champion Luca Bertossio, his tow plane and the Blue Voltige display duo, flying Fournier motorgliders.
Loehle 5151, a scaled-down replica of a P-51 Mustang.
A Yakovlev Yak-9 replica with an Allison engine.
The only 2 airworthy historic jets in Italy, an Aermacchi MB.326E and an Hunting Jet Provost, both of them owned, restored and flown (well, not at the same time like in this picture! 🙂 ) by Renzo Catellani, who also owns the Bird Dog which I showed some photos ago.
There were 2 airplanes which were scheduled for the show, but couldn’t participate.
One of them is the Fiat G.46, the second airplane built in Italy after WW2, which is an high performance trainer built for both the civilian and the military market.
Since it was built after WW2, it never wore this livery, which was used for a movie. Photo taken at last year’s FlyParty.
The other one is the Fiat G.59, which is a Fiat G.55 fighter reengined with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. This one is in the 2-seat training version, and was used for the fimling of the movie “U-571” with a fake Luftwaffe livery. Photo taken at the AeroParma Airshow 2013.
Thank you for watching! 🙂
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September 16, 2014 at 5:14 pm