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Ansaldo A.1 Balilla
1917 Italian fighter aircraft / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ansaldo A.1, nicknamed "Balilla" after the Genoan folk-hero, was Italy's only domestically-designed fighter aircraft of World War I to be produced in Italy. Arriving too late to see any real action, it was however used by both Poland and the Soviet Union in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921.
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Role | Fighter |
Manufacturer | Gio. Ansaldo & C. |
Designer | Umberto Savoia, Rodolfo Verduzio, and Giuseppe Brezzi |
First flight | March 1917 |
Introduction | 1918 |
Status | Retired |
Primary users | Italian Air Force Polish Air Force |
Produced | 1917-1924 |
Number built | ~250 by Ansaldo, 57 by Lublin under licence |
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