An item referred to notes of a naval officer of board of a British cruiser active in the Adriatic between August 1916-October 1917. He wrote that the air service of the Italian Navy was in August 1916 in a deplorable state lacking a sufficient number of aircraft and the one she had were far from efficient. Since then were planes acquired from France and England and were others built in Italy under licences while using foreign designs. Further more were more Italian designed aircraft produced an Italian firms encouraged to come with new designs.
