Along the way, the restoration programme was extended to an (enemy) Austro Daimler engine recovered from the Museum inventory. The material costs of "Operazione Balilla" were sustained, besides the Museo Storico della Cittą di Bergamo, by Fondazione Famiglia Legler and Fondazione Bergamo nella Storia. Other organizations and individuals supported as usual the effort of GAVS Turin to reopen a long forgotten page of Italian aviation heritage.
In the picture: The Ansaldo A.1 Balilla 16553 of the Museo Storico della Cittą di Bergamo, restored by the Turin Chapter of GAVS. (Aeromedia)
(Aeromedia, June 2003)