Editing Caproni Ca.3 (section)

==Operational history==
[[File:Caproni Ca-33 VHM Piestany.jpg|thumb|Nose of the Caproni Ca.33 at Vojenské Historické Múzeum, Piešťany, Slovakia, 2007]]

The Ca.1 entered service with the Italian Army in the middle of 1915 and first saw action on 20 August, attacking the Austrian air base at [[Aisovizza]]. Fifteen bomber squadrons (1°–15° ''Squadriglia'') were eventually equipped with Ca.1, Ca.2 and Ca.3 bombers, mostly bombing targets in [[Austro-Hungary]]. The 12° ''Squadriglie'' operated in [[Libya]]. In 1918, the 3°, 14° and 15° ''Squadriglia'' operated in France.

Apart from the Italian Army, original and licence-built examples were used by France (original Capronis were used in French CAP ''escadres'', licence-built examples in CEP ''escadres''). They were also used by the [[American Expeditionary Force]]. There has been some confusion regarding the use of the Ca3 by the British [[Royal Naval Air Service]]. The RNAS received six of the larger triplane Ca4s and did not operate the Ca3.<ref>Kenneth Munson writing in Bombers 1914–19, Blandford 1968</ref> The British Ca4s were not used operationally and were returned to Italy after the war. Some of the Ca.36Ms supplied after the war were still in service long enough to see action in [[Benito Mussolini]]'s first assaults on North Africa.