Caproni Ca.105

The Caproni Ca.105 was a multirole high-wing single-engine monoplane developed by Aeronautica Caproni in the late 1920s for both civil and military use. It was built in mixed construction with a welded steel-tube fuselage covered in treated canvas and a four-seat cabin, the front two seats with dual controls, and a wooden wing braced by struts that could be folded along the fuselage, over a fixed undercarriage. Though owned by the Regia Aeronautica, it carried the civil registration I-ABCE for a planned raid from Rome to Cape Town in December 1931, which was broken off at Tabora with a mechanical fault. Re-registered I-FOCO in December 1932, it flew a commemorative Rome to Bolama flight, and it stayed in Regia Aeronautica service until an accident on 14 October 1934 led to its demolition.