In 1956, the Italian Fiat G.91 Gina fighter made its first flight, a jet aircraft capable of exceeding 1,000 km\/h and of which 756 serial units were built.<\/p>\n
This aircraft was operated by the air forces of Italy, Germany and Portugal.<\/strong> It was also evaluated by the United States and Greece, which ultimately failed to buy it. The G.91 had a long operational life compared to other aircraft of its time.<\/strong> Portugal retired it from service in 1993, replacing it with F-16s, while Italy retired its last G.91s in 1995.<\/p>\n The aircraft featured in this entry was a two-seater Fiat G.91T\/1, with build number MM6362 and numeral 32-62.<\/strong> It served in the 32\u00ba Stormo (32nd Wing) of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana, based in Brindisi and later in Amendola. Surely this G.91T\/1 was assigned to the 201\u00ba Gruppo Unit\u00e0 di Conversione Operativa<\/strong>, the conversion squadron of the 32\u00ba Stormo, in charge of training pilots for the G.91. From what I have read, it was in active service at least until 1993. After it was withdrawn from service, it was stored at the Amendola base<\/strong>, and later sent to the Bentivoglio scrapyard in Rome, where it was stored disassembled.<\/p>\n Ironically, today an old German G.91 made by Dornier is kept under construction number MM6362 in a museum in Montelimar, France<\/a>. And while a German plane pretends to be it, what happened to the protagonist of this story? Well, a month ago it appeared in this video from Burton73<\/a>, on top of Mount Mottolino, in the Italian Alps<\/strong>, very close to the border with Austria:<\/p>\n
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