The Italian AF acquired 125 C-45s in 1949 from USAF storage at Oberpfaffenhofen AB, West Germany. A number in unserviceable condition were later rebuilt in Italy on an AMI production line. This one is recorded as c/n 7102 ex 44-47178 and RAF HB297, but c/n 7101 is also quoted. Preserved here but removed when site cleared in 2004 and said to have re-mounted on pole at a park in Vermicino near Rome-Ciampino Airport, but no evidence of it being there now

There are alternative histories for this aircraft. The logical one is from Joe Baugher. That says HB275 was written off when the undercarriage collapsed as Pandaveswar on March 19, 1945. The other version is HB275 was returned to the USAAF and the US and disposed of in the civil market in 1957. RAF Expeditors returned to USAAF were normally disposed of where they were located and not returned to the US. Neither aircraft is this. Photo from: Imperial War Museums