Its Cant Z.501 Gabbiano flying boats are long gone, but this place is still some sort of Italian Air Force facility, its gardens ornamented with a PD.808, a P.166, an AB.47, an MB.326 and a G.91Y.

Part of the Corpo Aereo Italiano that Mussolini sent to Belgium to assist the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, this Falco force landed on the beach at Orford Ness, Suffolk, on 11 November 1940.

Cockpit of the G.91R light attack aircraft at the Malta Aviation Museum.