These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a Fiat CR.42 Falco, serial MM5701, marked as aircraft 13 of the 95a Squadriglia — one of the most extraordinary exhibits in the collection and the only CR.42 on display in Britain. The Falco was the last single-seat biplane fighter to see combat in the Second World War, and arguably the finest of its kind ever built. Fast, highly manoeuvrable and beautifully constructed, it was nonetheless hopelessly outclassed when the Regia Aeronautica sent it to Belgium in autumn 1940 as part of the Corpo Aereo Italiano to participate in the Battle of Britain — an episode largely forgotten by history. On 11 November 1940, twenty-three year old Sergente Pilota Pietro Salvadori was flying MM5701 on an escort mission towards Harwich when an oil pipe broke and his engine overheated. He fell behind the formation and force-landed intact on the shingle beach at Orfordness in Suffolk, where he was taken prisoner — reportedly expressing relief at being out of the war and dissatisfaction with Belgian weather, German food and Italian officers alike. The aircraft was given RAF serial BT474, repaired and flown to Farnborough for evaluation, where test pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown described it as "an aerobatic gem." It later served with the Air Fighting Development Unit at Duxford until 1942, and has been on display at Hendon since 1978.