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Frecce Tricolori

The Frecce Tricolori (Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, literally Tricolour Arrows), officially known as the 313° Gruppo Addestramento Acrobatico, is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force

Italian Air Force

The Italian Air Force has gone under different names in different periods:*Regia Aeronautica , from 1923 until World War II*Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, the air force of Italian Social Republic during World War II...
, based at Rivolto Air Force Base, in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, province of Udine

Province of Udine

The Province of Udine is a Provinces of Italy in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy, bordering Austria and Slovenia. Its capital is the city of Udine....
. They were formed in 1961 as an Air Force team, replacing unofficial teams that had been sponsored by various commands by the end of the 1920s.

The team flies the Aermacchi MB-339-A/PAN

Aermacchi MB-339

The Aermacchi MB-339 is an Italy military trainer aircraft and light attack aircraft. It is a development of the company's earlier Aermacchi MB-326 that it was designed to replace....
, a two-seat fighter

Fighter aircraft

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs....
-trainer craft capable of 898 km/h at sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level , however, involves complex measurement, and accurately determining MSL can prove difficult....
, with nine aircraft and a solo (the highest number of aircraft of any aerobatic team in the world).

The teams official name is:

313.

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The Frecce Tricolori (Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, literally Tricolour Arrows), officially known as the 313° Gruppo Addestramento Acrobatico, is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force
Italian Air Force

The Italian Air Force has gone under different names in different periods:*Regia Aeronautica , from 1923 until World War II*Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, the air force of Italian Social Republic during World War II...
, based at Rivolto Air Force Base, in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, province of Udine
Province of Udine

The Province of Udine is a Provinces of Italy in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy, bordering Austria and Slovenia. Its capital is the city of Udine....
. They were formed in 1961 as an Air Force team, replacing unofficial teams that had been sponsored by various commands by the end of the 1920s.

The team flies the Aermacchi MB-339-A/PAN
Aermacchi MB-339

The Aermacchi MB-339 is an Italy military trainer aircraft and light attack aircraft. It is a development of the company's earlier Aermacchi MB-326 that it was designed to replace....
, a two-seat fighter
Fighter aircraft

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs....
-trainer craft capable of 898 km/h at sea level
Sea level

Mean sea level is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level , however, involves complex measurement, and accurately determining MSL can prove difficult....
, with nine aircraft and a solo (the highest number of aircraft of any aerobatic team in the world).

The teams official name is:

313. Gruppo Addestramento Acrobatico;

Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale (PAN) Frecce Tricolori.

History

The Frecce Tricolori were not the first AMI aerobatics team: military aerobatics as a group began in Campoformido
Campoformido

Campoformido is a town and commune in the province of Udine, in north-eastern Italy, notable for the Treaty of Campo Formio.The village of Rivolto hosts the Italian Air Force acrobatic flight squadron, the Frecce Tricolori....
, home of the 1st Wing, in the late 1920s under the supervision of Col. Rino Corso Fougier (an Italian pioneer in aerobatic group flying). Since then, except in the Second World War period, many fighter wings gave birth to demonstration teams like Cavallino Rampante (Rampant Horse), Getti Tonanti (Thundering Jets), Diavoli Rossi (Red Devils), Tigri Bianche (White Tigers) and Lanceri Neri (Black Lancers). Finally, in 1961, the Air Force General Staff decided to form a single aerobatic team, the Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale (National Acrobatic Patrol).

During the 2000 aerobatic season they reached 50,000 flying hours on the MB-339.

In 2005 they won the award for best exhibition at the Royal International Air Tattoo
Royal International Air Tattoo

The Royal International Air Tattoo is the world's largest military air show, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust....
at Fairford
Fairford

Fairford is a small town in Gloucestershire, England. It lies in the Cotswolds on the River Coln. RAF Fairford is located near the town, as is the Cotswold Water Park....
, England
England

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(a major military airshow) and they have obtained, for the first time for a non-Russian unit, the Silver Medal for Aeronautical Merit.

Incidents

On August 28, 1988, in the Ramstein airshow disaster
Ramstein airshow disaster

The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world's worst airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of about 300,000 people on 28 August 1988, in Ramstein-Miesenbach, state of Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany, near the city of Kaiserslautern at the United States Ramstein Air Base airshow Flugtag '88....
, over 70 people lost their lives due to shrapnel and burning fuel. The accident was triggered by the mid-air collision
Mid-air collision

A mid-air collision is an aviation accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Due to the relatively high velocities involved and any subsequent impact on the ground or sea, very severe damage or the total destruction of at least one of the aircraft involved usually results....
of three Frecce Tricolori jets. The burning jets broke up and crashed into the crowd.

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See also

Italian Air Force
Italian Air Force

The Italian Air Force has gone under different names in different periods:*Regia Aeronautica , from 1923 until World War II*Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, the air force of Italian Social Republic during World War II...
Ramstein airshow disaster
Ramstein airshow disaster

The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world's worst airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of about 300,000 people on 28 August 1988, in Ramstein-Miesenbach, state of Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany, near the city of Kaiserslautern at the United States Ramstein Air Base airshow Flugtag '88....

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