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==Surviving aircraft== [[File:Macchi 205 Vigna di Valle.jpg|thumb|C.205 at Vigna di Valle]] [[File:M.C.205V.jpg|thumb|C.205V at the [[Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci"|National Museum of Science and Technology]]]] Three Veltros survive today, one of which was restored to flying condition and participated in numerous aerial displays until the end of 1986. <ref name="Di Terlizzi p. 2.">DiTerlizzi 2009, p. 2.</ref> All C.205s that are preserved are hybrids made up of parts of C.202s mixed with those of C.205s.<ref name="ilvolo.it">[http://www.ilvolo.it/index.php/20080530654/Approfondimenti/Aer.Macchi-MC.205-Veltro-e-Orione.html ''Il Volo'' (Flight) article on C.205 series (In Italian)]</ref> One, ''MM.91818'' (bearing the registration MM 9327<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aviaphotos.it/details.asp?IDENTIFICATIVO=1568 |title=Macchi C205 - MM.9327 |publisher=Aviaphotos.it |date=2007-01-14 |access-date=2016-10-19}}</ref>), is on display at the [[Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci"|National Museum of Science and Technology]] in [[Milan]]. Restoration was completed in 1981 by the Italian Air Force together with Fiat and Aermacchi.<ref name="museoscienza">{{cite web |title=Macchi MC 205 V Veltro, 1943 |url=http://www.museoscienza.org/dipartimenti/aerei_mc205.asp |website=museoscienza |access-date=3 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527195200/http://www.museoscienza.org/dipartimenti/aerei_mc205.asp |archive-date=27 May 2009 |language=it}}</ref> Another two are on display at the [[Italian Air Force Museum|Museo storico dell'Aeronautica Militare]] in [[Vigna di Valle]]. ''MM.9546'' is displayed as a MC.205 and ''MM.92166'' is displayed as a MC.202.<ref name="ilvolo.it"/> In November 2006 the engine and cockpit of a crashed C.205 were found 8 meters underground, with the pilot still in his seat, in [[Correzzola]].<ref name="alatricolore">{{cite web |title=MACCHI MC.205V "VELTRO" |url=http://www.alatricolore.it/alatricolore/musei%20italia/romagnaairfinders/velivoli/mc205v.htm |language=it |website=alatricolore.it |access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> A C.205 replica can be seen outside Rome's [[Palazzo dell'Aeronautica]],<ref name="Palazzo dell'Aeronautica">{{cite web |title=Replica C.205 at the Palazzo dell'Aeronautica, Rome |url=http://www.alatricolore.it/alatricolore/sopravvissuti/regioni/lazio.htm |access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> and another in Volandia Park and Museum of Flight at [[Vizzola Ticino]].<ref name="Volandia">{{cite web |title=Aermacchi C. 205V (simulacro) |url=http://www.volandia.it/velivoli/c205v.htm |website=Volandia |access-date=3 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510180250/http://www.volandia.it/velivoli/c205v.htm |language=it |archive-date=10 May 2010}}</ref>
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