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Bird Dog Cessna L-19 I-EIAQ. Aero Club Como.

Produced in 1953, the aircraft served in the USAAF as 61-2967. In the sixties 1960 it was assigned to the Italian ALE, Aviazione Leggera dell’Esercito (Light aviation of the Army) and finally to the 1° RRALE, the first Reparto Riparazioni of the ALE.
In the early nineties all l-19s of the Italian Army were given to Aero Club d’Italia, who finally sold them to the local Aero Clubs.
Aero Club Como bought I-EIAQ as a landplane and got a set of Edo 2440 floats, taken out with the rigging from an US Bird Dog floatplane being sold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-1_Bird_Dog