Did a romanian S79 survived the war ?

In Dan Stoian's book, at page 139 it reads:

Any ideea about the destination where they landed the S79 ? Also, any ideea if it was preserved ?

I don't have a precise date for the mentioned evasion, but it happened sometimes in 1947. The destination was the RAF base at Nicosia, Cyprus.

Gen. Dénes

rgr - any ideea who we may contact in order to get some info ?

www.gavs.it is the Italian Gruppo Am,ici Velivoli Storici, the association of classic airplanes enthusiasts. They cohoperate with several museums and they helped rescue a S.79 for the Caproni Museum in northern Italy.

As far as I know, only two S.79 are still preserved. One is in Vigna di Valle on the Bracciano Lake just north of Rome, in the Italian Air Force Museum, and the other in the Capronu Museum of Rovereto, northern Italy. Both are from the stock of three bought by Lebanon, and the one in Rovereto still has Lebanese markings (as part of the agreement with the Caproni family). No news of the third one.

Last S.79s in Italy in the '50s or so have been burned in the firemen school of Ciampino near Rome to train fire brigades.

I don't know anything about S.79s abroad except for a skeleton of a plane in the Libya desert, that forced landed during the war and was found many years later.

I don't know anything of the S.79 you write. But ask in the GAVS forum, somebody could help you.

All the best,

Andrea

rgr, thank you very much angiolillo !