REPORTED NUMBER OF ITALIAN PLANES AVAILABLE ON THE DESERT THEATRE IN JULY 42

25 Cant Z1007 'Alcyone'
34 Savoia-Marchetti S79 'Sparviero'
40 Fiat CR42 'Falco'
50 MC 200 'Saetta'(fitted with wing bomb racks)
93 MC 202 'Folgore'
46 MC 200 'Saetta' (pure Air to Air version)
43 G50 'Freccia'
24 CA 311
17 Cant Z501

[Reinforced on 28 August 1942 by the arrival of X Assault Gruppo with 20 Fiat CR42 and on 7 September by the 15th Assault Stormo with yet 40 more 'Falco']

Data shown regard the total number of planes in the theater. Operational availability ranged among 60 and 70 percent of the above.
This could be considered the peak of the Italian Regia Aeronautica in Africa, particularly for the fighter arm. Note the high number of MC 202 fighters, powered by the German designed DB601 that was fitted on early Bf-109.

(Data from 'L'arma aerea Italiana nella 2a Guerra Mondiale' by Sebastiano Licheri -1976- Mursia)

Information courtesy Paulo Marcenaro