These photos were taken at IWM Duxford during the Flying Legends Airshow in 2018. They show a Fiat CR.42 Falco — Italy's last biplane fighter and the most produced Italian aircraft of the Second World War, with over 1,800 built. Powered by a Fiat radial engine and armed with two machine guns, the Falco was outclassed in speed by the Hurricanes and Spitfires it faced over Britain, but was so agile that RAF pilots found it extremely difficult to bring down. In autumn 1940, the Corpo Aereo Italiano deployed a force of CR.42s to Belgium for raids against England — a brief and largely unsuccessful campaign, but a remarkable episode in the history of the Battle of Britain. This particular aircraft is one of only four surviving CR.42s in the world, and is owned by The Fighter Collection at Duxford. It is displayed in the markings of MM6976, an aircraft of the 85a Squadriglia, 18° Gruppo — one of the units that flew over England in November 1940. The airframe itself has a remarkable history: it was one of 72 CR.42s delivered to Sweden as the J 11, and crashed in the mountains near Kiruna on 13 April 1942, killing its pilot Bertil Klintman. The wreck remained at the remote crash site for over forty years until it was recovered in 1983, eventually reaching Duxford in 1995 where it was restored to airworthy condition by Italian specialists.