Inside the five-year Italian Beechcraft C-45 restoration 

A five-year-long restoration effort to return a former Italian Air Force Beechcraft C-45F Expeditor to its former glory has recently been completed at the Guardia di Finanza Air Service Museum at Pratica di Mare, Italy. Daniele Mattozzi reports for Aviation News

In 1954, Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (GdF) introduced Agusta Bell AB-47Gs to carry out reconnaissance taskings in support of land and sea-based missions and, if necessary, search and rescue sorties.

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