The 10th Fiat G91 PAN to be built, serial MM6244, arrived at the Volandia Park and Flight Museum near Milan Malpensa Airport in early January, having spent the past 30-plus years on external display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.During 2020, the management in Seattle decided that the former Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team aircraft should be returned to Italy, and it was duly loaded onto the appropriately named container vessel La Traviata at the port of Norfolk, Virginia on 9 December 2021. The Frecce operated the G91 PAN - so designated for the Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale, as the team is officially named - from 1963-81, when it was succeeded by the Aermacchi MB339A. Only 16 were built, all of them being conversions of pre-production aircraft conducted exclusively for service with the team, with the guns removed and pitch dampers, ballast and smoke tanks added.
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