These walk-around photos were taken at Flygvapenmuseum at Malmen outside Linköping in 2019. They show a Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I, designated J 20 in Swedish service — and a genuinely unique survivor: this is the only complete Reggiane Re.2000 preserved anywhere in the world. Designed by the Italian team of Antonio Alessio and Roberto Longhi — the latter having spent time in the American aviation industry and drawn heavily on the Seversky P-35 as inspiration — the Re.2000 was an advanced all-metal monoplane with flush riveting and an unusual undercarriage that rotated 90 degrees as it retracted. Despite its excellent performance, the Regia Aeronautica distrusted its wing-mounted integral fuel tanks and placed no operational orders; almost the entire production run of around 170 aircraft was instead exported to Sweden and Hungary.
Sweden acquired 60 Re.2000s as the J 20 as an emergency measure following the US arms embargo of 1940, which cut off deliveries of the Seversky P-35 and Vultee Vanguard. They served exclusively at F 10, initially at Bulltofta in Malmö and later at Ängelholm, where one of their roles was to escort and guide foreign aircraft forced to make emergency landings in Sweden during the war. Individual 2340, c/n 405, was delivered in August 1942 and served at F 10 until the type was retired in 1945. After the war it was used as a ground instructional airframe in Malmö — which explains the distinctive cutaway on the port side of the fuselage, left open to reveal the internal structure. It is displayed at Flygvapenmuseum in the wartime camouflage and F 10 markings it wore in Swedish service.