Sebastiano Bedendo

Maggiore Sebastiano Bedendo (18 July 1895-24 August 1935) was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.

He set several world aviation flying records with a Nuvoli N.5 monoplane before dying in an air crash.

Sebastiano Bedendo was born on 18 July 1895 in Rovigo, in the Kingdom of Italy.

His time with the cannons was brief, as he quickly transferred to aerial observer duty in a kite balloon section.

This began a string of aerial victory claims that, by competing accounts, made him an ace with five confirmed wins and four unconfirmed ones.

After graduation, he joined the newly formed Regia Aeronautica in 1924, in their engineering branch[3] as a Capitano.

[2] A French Farman 239 took one of the records, and Bedendo seized it back in 1935, using a modernized Nuvoli N.5 RR.