Caproni Ca.313

The Caproni Ca.313 was an Italian twin-engine reconnaissance bomber of the late 1930s, a development of the Ca.310 whose variants were exported to several other countries. It came from the Caproni Aeronautica Bergamasca, a subsidiary of the Caproni group, which built a series of twin-engined light monoplanes in the 1930s and 1940s derived from the all-wooden Ca.308 Borea airliner. The Ca.313 was a further development of the Ca.311 with more powerful Isotta Fraschini air-cooled inverted V-12 engines, and its prototype, a converted Ca.310, first flew on 22 December 1939. France ordered 200 on 26 September 1939 and Great Britain ordered 300 on 26 January 1940, but the Italian declaration of war stopped the British deal and France received only five before deliveries ended. The listed Ca.313 R.P.B.2 figures give a maximum speed of 436 kilometres per hour with two 540 kilowatt engines.