Macchi C.200 - version overview
Macchi C.200 prototype
Two prototypes built with Fiat A.74RC 38 engine, good flight characteristics found
Macchi C.200
Open-cockpit fighter, serial production
Macchi C.200bis
The Breda factory modified one production aircraft for the more powerful Piaggio P.XIX R.C.45 engine, the performance was good, but Reggia Aeronautica Italia preferred the more modern Macchi C.202
Macchi C.200AS
Modifications for operation on the African battlefield
Macchi C.200CB
Later series aircraft were given bomb racks or additional tanks under the wings, and the designation as a fighter bomber / escort fighter was changed
Production took place in factories:
Aeronautica Macchi
SAI Ambrosini (Societa Aeronautica Italiana)
Breda (Societa Italiana per Construzioni Meccaniche Ernesto Breda, Milan)
A total of 1,153 M.C.200 aircraft were produced
Pemen used:
William Green and Gordon Swanborough, The Great Book of Fighters, St. Paul, Minnesota, MBI Publishing, 2001, ISBN: 0-76031-194-3.
William Green, The Macchi-Castoldi Series, Famous Fighters of the Second World War-2, London, Macdonald, 1957, reprinted 1975, ISBN 0-356-08334-9.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchi_C.200
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Macchi C.200 prototype
Two prototypes built with Fiat A.74RC 38 engine, good flight characteristics found
Macchi C.200
Open-cockpit fighter, serial production
Macchi C.200bis
The Breda factory modified one production aircraft for the more powerful Piaggio P.XIX R.C.45 engine, the performance was good, but Reggia Aeronautica Italia preferred the more modern Macchi C.202
Macchi C.200AS
Modifications for operation on the African battlefield
Macchi C.200CB
Later series aircraft were given bomb racks or additional tanks under the wings, and the designation as a fighter bomber / escort fighter was changed
Production took place in factories:
Aeronautica Macchi
SAI Ambrosini (Societa Aeronautica Italiana)
Breda (Societa Italiana per Construzioni Meccaniche Ernesto Breda, Milan)
A total of 1,153 M.C.200 aircraft were produced
Pemen used:
William Green and Gordon Swanborough, The Great Book of Fighters, St. Paul, Minnesota, MBI Publishing, 2001, ISBN: 0-76031-194-3.
William Green, The Macchi-Castoldi Series, Famous Fighters of the Second World War-2, London, Macdonald, 1957, reprinted 1975, ISBN 0-356-08334-9.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchi_C.200
www.xs4all.nl
author archive