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Airplane I-AAXZ

The IMAM Ro.10 was a high-end wing trimotor produced by the Italian company IMAM (Industrie Meccaniche Aeronautiche Meridionali), formerly OFM (Southern Railway Workshops), in the 1930s.

Ro.10 was the Italian version produced under license by the Dutch Fokker F.VII / 3m. Only three specimens were produced with the following registrations: I-FERO, I-AAXY and I-AAXZ.

The Southern Railway Workshops (OFM), owned by the entrepreneur Nicola Romeo, in 1925 managed to acquire the license to locally produce two aircraft, the Fokker CV biplane and the Fokker F.VII trimotor version, the F.VII / 3m. For the Italian versions, Alfa Romeo engines were used, a company of which Nicola Romeo was a founding member, then renamed respectively Ro.1 and Ro.10. The I-AAXZ of the Avio Linee Italiane Company, had been employed in the previous days for meteorological assessments on the Alpine chain (height and quantity of clouds, horizontal visibility and in the valleys). Preceded the training up to the Swiss-Holland border.

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Fokker F.VIIa-3m I-AAXZ and I-AAXY
Fokker F.VIIa-3m I-AAXZ and I-AAXY