Editing Caproni Ca.3 (section)

==Development==
[[File:Caproni Ca.33.jpg|thumb|Caproni Ca.33, c. 1920s]]
The development of the Ca.1 to the [[Caproni Ca.2|Ca.2]] suggested the benefits of increasing amounts of power to the very sound airframe. The Ca.3 was a development of Ca.2, by replacing the two engines mounted on the booms with the same Isotta-Fraschini engine that had been used as the central, [[Pusher configuration|pusher]] engine on that design. The prototype flew in late [[1916 in aviation|1916]] and was soon put into production. Known by Caproni at the time as the '''Caproni 450&nbsp;hp''', the Italian Army designated it the Ca.3. In Caproni's postwar renaming, it became the '''Ca.33'''. Between 250 and 300 of these aircraft were built, supplying the Italian Army and Navy (the latter using the type as a [[torpedo bomber]]), and the French Army. Late in the war, [[Robert Esnault-Pelterie]] licence-built an additional 83 (some sources say only 19) aircraft in France.

''Note: there is some variation in published sources over early Caproni names. The confusion stems, in part, from three schemes used to label the aircraft – Caproni's in-house designations of the time, those used by the Italian Army and names created after the war by Caproni for past designs.''{{cn|date=December 2021}}