Reggiane 2000 recovered from the sea

Any updates of what happened since recovery.

Laurent

It should still be in freshwater, the structure is very corroded and I read that one of the ideas is to expose the wreck as it is, now the Museum is engaged in the restoration of the Reggiane 2002 that should be almost finished, after hopefully should start the work on one of the wrecks of the remaining Reggiane, the 2001 or the 2000.

I bet tensioning the lifting lines on that support frame was fun!!!

I’m not sure they bothered! The lines appear to be of fixed presumably equal length and some can be seen to be slack during the lift

The Flikr album below has a few nice shots of the Reggiane before recovery. Interesting.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/53747418@N02/sets/72157631109101240/

Any updates of what happened since recovery.

Laurent

Looks very fragile – but they have obviously done a remarkable job on the recovery and got it up in one piece – I bet tensioning the lifting lines on that support frame was fun!!!

The Italian Air Force Museum already owns an Re2000 fuselage – currently on loan to the Caproni Museum and under restoration – so I wonder whether the two will be combined to make a single example.

I second that!

Certainly a more important find/recovery than a Spitfire in my humble opinion!

Great and very rare find even if any kind of restration will most probably be very challenging.

Note: if this had been Spitfire, we would already have 200 answers/posts and 5.000 views. Sad!

Laurent

I don’t know, surely they have to remove the salt, if they don’t use the solution developed for the Dornier, they will maintain the aircraft in fresh water for at least one year. In Italy there is still the fuselage of a Reggiane 2000 Catapultabile, with the wings and the elements of the plane recovered and with a good restoration should be obtained a complete aircraft.

Do you know what the conservation plans are,will it need the same flushing out as the Dornier
here?

Cool and the recovery company did it for free, I suppose a bit of payback to the Country for the work they got raising the Concordia. Excellent work and Kudos to the Company for doing it 🙂