Thanks to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin.
This C.205 was flown by Lt Colonel Duilio Fanali, CO of the 155th Fighter Group. In 1936 Fanali was one of a handful of Regia Aeronautica pilots trained to fly the powerful Macchi Schneider Trophy racing seaplanes. A year later he volunteered for service in the Spanish Civil War where he rose to the rank of Captain and commanded the 65th Squadron. When Italy declared war on Britain in 1940 was serving in Libya and led the 165th Squadron flying mostly ground attack sorties against the British 8th Army. He took command of the C.202-equipped 155th Fighter Group in 1942. His group fought the RAF and USAAF through the Tunisian and Italian Campaigns until the Italian Armistice on 8th September 1943. At this time Duilio and the 155th Fighter Group became one of the Italian units that joined the Co-Belligerent Air Force (ICAF) to fight for the new Italian government with the Allies. The remaining RA units formed the Axis-supporting Aeronautica Nazionale Republicana (ANR). Both the Allied and the Axis high commands did not entirely trust their Italian units. Because of this and the need to avoid friendly fire incidents they tended to keep them away from the front lines, so the 155th FG was mostly used to patrol the skies over the Balkans.
Fanali's aircraft is depicted in its post-Armistice state repainted in ICAF roundels, with his personal "155" number and with the dragon emblem of the 65th squadron he commanded in Spain on the nose. On the 26th December this aircraft was lost when he was forced to bail out of it due to bad weather. Surviving both this and the war he remained in the Italian Air Force until 1971, when as Chief of the General Staff he was ousted following a bribery scandal involving Lockheed.
