This gets better and better
Love the Macchi C.201 and C.204! The CANSA FC.12 was intriguing ... and made perfect sense as a trainer. Not so sure about as an attack aircraft. Still, amazing to see it in kit form!
DO wonder why Reggiane didn't use same engine for the 2001?
Apparently, that was down to Regia Aeronautica planners who had become obsessed by German-style inverted V-12s. To that end, Isotta Fraschini developed the inverted A.120 R.C.40 from the
Asso XI L.121.
By the time that IF got the A.120 underway, DB 601As were already available - first from Germany, then from IF competitor Alfa Romeo with their R.A.1000 R.C.41-I
Monsone. After that,
Asso engines mainly went into torpedo boats, IIRC.