The Reggiane Re.2004 was an Italian single-engined monoplane made by Reggiane and designed by Roberto Longhi. The aircraft never passed the preliminary stages.

Design and development

The Re.2004 had identical

fuselage The fuselage (; from the French language, French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds Aircrew, crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an Aircraft engine, engine as wel ...

, wings and other components to the Re.2005. The Re.2004 was powered by an air-cooled

Isotta Fraschini Zeta The Isotta Fraschini Zeta was an air cooled X engine with 24 cylinders developed by the Italian engineering company Isotta Fraschini in the 1940s. It was developed as an indigenous alternative to the imported Daimler-Benz DB 605 that was being bu ...

RC 24/60 engine, with 24 cylinders arranged in an X-pattern, producing . In 1942, a prototype was built, and ten models were ordered; the order was later cancelled due to unresolved engine overheating problems.Alegi, 2001, p.35 However, by this time, the Re.2005 had been completed.

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