We continue with the Ansaldo SVA, this time with more foreign users of this multi-role airplane.
- Lithuania: Lithuania kept some SVA.10 used in observation role during the 20s. There's not much more many information.
- Paraguay: As many of you have already guessed, the Ansaldo SVA played an important role in south American countries not just for being one of the first airplanes in many of these countries air force's, but also for being the protagonist of the first aerial combat ever in that territory when two opposing SVA.5 faced together in a dogfight. It was also used as a trainer, and not just as a fighter.
- Peru: Peru had some SVA.5 in active during the 20s. Their fate or where they were based is unknown.
- Poland: The newly created Wojska Lotnicze (Polish Air force) adquired some trainers in order to equip their flying schools. The one that employed the SVA was the advanced pilot's school, based first at an ex-German airfield in the city of Poznan but moved to Grudziądz in December 1920.
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