Ansaldo A.1 Balilla
(WAK)
Model in the series "Polish aircraft of the Polish-Bolshevik War". Captain M. Cooper painting, founder of 7th Fighter Squadron. Model printed using silver paint.
(WAK)
Model in the series "Polish aircraft of the Polish-Bolshevik War". Captain M. Cooper painting, founder of 7th Fighter Squadron. Model printed using silver paint.
Model in the series "Polish aircraft of the Polish-Bolshevik War". Captain M. Cooper painting, founder of 7th Fighter Squadron. Model printed using silver paint.
Historical information
The Ansaldo A.1, nicknamed "Balilla" after the Genoan folk-hero was Italy's only domestically-produced fighter aircraft of World War I. Arriving too late to see any real action, it was however used by both Poland and the Soviet Union in the Polish-Soviet War.