Ansaldo A.120

The Ansaldo A.120 was an Italian reconnaissance aircraft of the 1920s, a conventional parasol-wing monoplane with a fixed tailskid undercarriage that carried a pilot and an observer in tandem open cockpits. Its designers joined a wing developed for the earlier Ansaldo A.115 to the fuselage of the Dewoitine D.1 fighters that Ansaldo was building under licence. The prototype flew with a Lorraine 12Db engine, an improved version took a Fiat A.20, and the definitive production version, the A.120Ady, mostly used the Fiat A.22 of about 410 kW, with 57 of that version built. The Regia Aeronautica operated it in modest numbers, and it was also exported to the air forces of Austria and Lithuania; a revised A.120R was built for the Austrian service. Because Fiat bought Ansaldo, the type is sometimes called the Fiat A.120.