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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nico" data-source="post: 115545" data-attributes="member: 2064">As the well-known Italian aviation historian Gregory Alegi wrote on 'Aero Fan' # 71 (Oct./Dec. 1999), one of the greatest dreams of all aircraft researchers is to find an aircraft-that-nobody knows.In the quoted feature, Gregory describes the SCA (Società Costruzioni Aeronautiche Guidonia) AQV or Tipo 3 (perhaps for SCA.3). On that issue of 'Aero Fan' are three photographs of the AQV (that I enclose). How was possible that an aircraft was built and testes by a state organisation without any trace in public archives is another interesting question...My post it's only to remember to our community that the aircraft had the Matricola Militare (serial number) 422 but that there are indications of a second prototype under construction in 1937 (apparently withhout MM) and that in military archives are also quoted two SCA.2, perhaps a previous iteration of the same project but I lack any information about.Moreover, one post about Caproni designations listed a Ca.340 as projected pressurized biplane designed for altitude record: someone can do more light about it?Nico</blockquote>