Well depends on if it had to see service in all one squadron. A squadron's worth saw combat, IIRC, but not all in the same time.
Also HTC stated before that the only real requirement is that it flew in WWII, and that it saw combat.
It never seen squadron service, it might of filled
one wing, only problem is finding out what squadron actually flew re.2005s if any did, so far I cannot find any photos or evidence of which squad flew it. Wikipedia shows some 40 such built, where this number comes from is beyond me.
What I think is likely, is the factories might of produced 4x - they might of been bombed and never used in combat, which is the case for the japanese in many ways.
Germans did not want to license and build the G.55 or Re.2005, so this leaves the Italian factories which were already being hammered by Allied bombers.
Edited:
Here's some comments across the net:
Hello John
a nice picture, thanks for that.
But IMHO the combat use of 2005 after Sept 43 is just a myth, not the only one floating in the net. IIRC there was only one LW unit using 2005, that was a target unit operating in Northern Italy, we know that 3 of its 2005s were damaged during USAAF bombing raid against its airfield.
Juha
Secondly:
Well several sources say that the ANR 2005s were used for training only. for a series 5, its not a glorious end
