Caproni is an Italian surname.
Notable people include:
Giorgio Caproni was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator, especially from French.
Giovanni Battista Caproni, 1st Count of Taliedo, known as "Gianni" Caproni, was an Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer who founded the Caproni aircraft-manufacturing company.
Pietro Paulo Caproni was founder and co-owner of PP Caproni & Brother, Boston, Massachusetts, manufacturers of plaster reproductions of classical and contemporary statues. These 'cast' reproductions were, in an era before commercial photography, an integral educational tool in teaching people the history of art and antiquities.
Caproni was an Italian aircraft manufacturer founded in 1908 by Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni. It was initially named, from 1911, Società de Agostini e Caproni, then Società Caproni e Comitti. Caproni made the first aircraft of Italian construction in 1911. The manufacturing facilities were based in Taliedo, a peripheral district of Milan, close to Linate Airport, and for the Caproni Vizzola division, in Vizzola Ticino, close to Milan–Malpensa Airport.
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Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica was a manufacturer of aircraft and aircraft engines established in Italy in 1920 by Count Giovanni Bonmartini. Together with a group of World War I veteran pilots, he operated a flying school in Rome from a field that would eventually be developed into Littorio airport. For the next decade or so, CNA also developed their own aircraft and engines to power them. Bonmartini had also worked on an advanced racing motorcycle engine, the GBR in another partnership, and eventually CNA acquired the rights to this as well.
Officine Meccaniche Reggiane SpA was an Italian aircraft manufacturer, owned by Caproni and situated in Reggio Emilia, a city of what today is the Emilia-Romagna region. The first aircraft produced was the medium bomber Piaggio P.32bis, which had been developed from the Caproni Ca.405C Procellaria.
The Caproni Ca.20 was an early monoplane fighter. Developed by Giovanni Battista Caproni in 1914. The only prototype made is today on display at the Museum of Flight in the United States.
The Italian Corpo Aeronautico Militare was formed as part of the part of the Regio Esercito on 7 January 1915, incorporating the Aviators Flights Battalion (airplanes), the Specialists Battalion (airships) and the Ballonists Battalion. Prior to World War I, Italy had pioneered military aviation in the Italo-Turkish War during 1911–1912. Its army also contained one of the world's foremost theorists about the future of military aviation, Giulio Douhet; Douhet also had a practical side, as he was largely responsible for the development of Italy's Caproni bombers starting in 1913. Italy also had the advantage of a delayed entry into World War I, not starting the fight until 24 May 1915, but took no advantage of it so far as aviation was concerned.

The Reggiane Re.2007 was a purported Italian fighter aircraft concept designed in 1943 by Roberto Longhi.
Taliedo is a peripheral district ("quartiere") of the city Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 4 administrative division, located south-east of the city centre. The informal boundaries of the district are three main city streets, respectively Via Mecenate, Via Bonfadini and Via Salomone.
The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics is Italy's oldest aviation museum, as well as the country's oldest corporate museum. It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni and his wife, Timina Guasti Caproni.
The Caproni Ca.16 was a single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.10 was a single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.9 was a single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.6 was a single-engine biplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.7 was a proposed biplane designed by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.8 was a single-seat monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.22 was a single-engine monoplane made by the Italian company Aeronautica Caproni in 1913.
The Caproni Ca.11 was a single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.13 was a two-seater single-engine monoplane built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Caproni Ca.53 was an Italian prototype light bomber built in the last months of World War I.
The Caproni Ca.14 was an early biplane developed by Giovanni Battista Caproni in the early 1910s.