Caproni Ca.114

The Caproni Ca.114 was a fighter biplane produced in Italy in the early 1930s that was flown operationally in Peru in the 1930s and 1940s. The Caproni company designed it in 1933 to compete for a new single-seat fighter for the Regia Aeronautica, deriving the airframe from the Ca.113 trainer as a single-bay biplane with staggered wings of equal span. The fuselage was steel tubing covered by detachable metal panels forward and fabric aft, the two-spar wooden wings were fabric-covered, and a geared, supercharged Bristol Mercury IV radial engine of 395 kilowatts gave a top speed of 355 kilometres per hour. Armament was two forward-firing Breda-SAFAT machine guns. After the war the Peruvian aircraft left front-line duty and four were used for training at Lima until late 1944, when they were grounded and shortly afterwards scrapped.