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GAVS is a historical society whose primary focus is the restoration of aircraft. Based in Rome, the organization has participated in large-scale aircraft restoration projects including the Fiat G.55 in Torino, the Nardi FN.305, SIAI S.79 and the SPAD VII in Rome.

The society offers various publications and since 1983 has provided its members with a yearly subscription to the aviation magazine Ali Antiche. The magazine is published on a quarterly basis and is written in both English and Italian. In association with GAVS, Stormo is very proud to make this informative high-quality magazine and yearly subscription and membership to GAVS at a significantly reduced rate.

Please support this great society in its efforts to restore precious few aircraft by becoming a member.

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October 07, 2006

As I promised last year, a new forum was in the works. Although I enjoy the current forum format, the phpbb style format is so widespread now that its become the standard. And so today, I roll out the New Forum. The style, colors and the theme reflect much of the feed back I received from the current forum. The New Forum is separated into two parts, a Modeling Forum and a History Forum. The History section is extensive with fifteen topics covering all the major theaters of operations of the RA and ANR. I also provided a forum for "Other History Eras" that cover flight from its earliest inception. There's also a general History section. Also included is a Research section and a Current Events forum covering the latest News, Politics and Sports. The New forum comes with many different and interesting avatars of RA fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft and RA/ANR units. Each registered user begins with a Pilot ranking and is promoted to Squadron Commander, then Gruppo Commander and so on depending on the number of individual posts.

I'll continue with the current forum until the end of the month at which time I will close this forum and transition to the New Forum format. Until then please do register and do contact me with any suggestions for the New Forum.

August 05, 2006

April 17, 2006

I'm happy and very proud to announce the first STORMO! Product, Italian WWII Aces 1/48 Decals Part I. The sheet includes decals for five Italian aces and five different machines. The decals are printed by Cartograph and are very high quality. Articles of completed models will be posted in Forum in the coming weeks.

February 23, 2006

In keeping with its recent run of High-Quality Italian WWII aircraft kits, Classic Airframes have now announced the shipping of their new 1/48 Fiat CR.32 in both Spanish Civil War and Regia Aeronautica markings. The decal sheets will be extensive including markings for machines piloted by Italian Ace D. Fanali, the Duca D'Aosta, Spanish Civil War Ace Joaquin Garcia Morato and many others. The kits are expected to arrive in the coming weeks.

January 02, 2006

April 8, 2005

As part of a continuing commitment to provide the highest quality products and offerings, STORMO! is proud to announce the availability of Dan Zoernig Illustrations. For a limited time only purchase "Dai Banana!" and get Free Shipping anywhere in the US and Canada + $5.00 discount off the List Price. Overseas purchases receive 50% Off S&H. This Exclusive Introductory Offer will continue to the end of July, 2005 and is only available to members of STORMO! Only a limited number of prints available.

February 13, 2005

Welcome! This has been sometime in the making, STORMO! STORMO! is an online Model Magazine devoted to the modeling of the Italian Air forces of WWII as well as the Italian Armed forces in general. You maybe asking yourself what STORMO! means? Well its the equivalent of an Italian Wing in aeronautical terms. For example, three squadriglie (squadrons) make up a gruppo (group) and two gruppi (groups) make up a stormo (wing). Some Italian Wings or Stormi are quite famous such as the 1o Stormo (Archer) and 4o Stormo (a wing in honor of Francesco Baracca, a famous Italian WWI Ace who sported the prancing horse and made famous by Ferrari S.p.A). By the way, the 'o' in 1o stands for 'primo' like the 'st' in 1st (first).

STORMO! publishes high-quality, well researched historical and modeling articles which present interesting subject matter regarding the Regia Aeronautica (RA) and the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (ANR) as well as the Italian Armed Forces of WWII. Please Submit Your Articles or read interesting articles from the Articles page. Also, do participate in lively debates on the STORMO! Discussion Forum.

Please glance through STORMO! Storefront Products for finished kits, books and decals. It is our sincere hope that STORMO! will provide a complete virtual online experience from model building, forum discussions, online articles, purchasing books as well as having the opportunity to own a highly detailed and realistic model of a Regia Aeronautica or ANR fighter, bomber or ground attack aircraft; or just having fun flying a RA or ANR aircraft in a flight simulator.


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