Caproni Ca.113

The Caproni Ca.113 was an advanced training biplane produced in Italy and Bulgaria in the early 1930s, designed as a more powerful and robust follow-on to the Ca.100 and capable of aerobatics. It was a conventional design with two tandem cockpits, single-bay staggered wings of equal span and mainwheels covered by large spats. Its abilities were shown when Mario De Bernardi won the aerobatic trophy at the 1931 Cleveland Air Races with a Walter Castor engine, and in a series of records, including a world altitude record of 14,433 metres set by Renato Donati on 11 April 1934 in a modified version with longer wings and a supercharged engine. Caproni also built it at its subsidiary in Kazanlak, Bulgaria, as the Chuchuliga, or Skylark, of which 107 were produced for the Bulgarian Royal Air Force.