 Duncan Smith, DSO, DFC, a British fighter pilot and fighter leader of World War II, greatly respected the Re.2005,

It seems that one of the two Reggiane that had returned to Sicily was captured by the United States Army Air Forces and sent to the US.Little is known of this aircraft, which vanished after the war.While German and some Japanese aircraft were extensively tested, the few captured Italian aircraft (another extant example is a captured Macchi C.202) were not known to be tested, so detailed information about them and their flight characteristics is scarce.