The "Volugrafo Aermoto 125" (Aermoto air-launch "Volugrafo") was a parachutable motorcycle produced in 1942 for the Italian Army. It was originally conceived in 1936 as a light motorcycle by Claudio Belmondo. At the outbreak of World War II, the Axis Powers began planning "Operation C3" for the invasion of Malta. The Italian Army requested wanted a parachutable motor bike for the operaton. Belmondo redesigned the lightweight motorbike as the Aeromoto 125 to meet the Army's requirements. The prototype was made by in 1942 and went into production the following year. The Army ordered a first batch of 600 Aermotos, destined for one of the battalions of the 183rd Paratroopers Division Ciclone, which was being set up in the Tarquinia area in the summer of 1943. The motorcycle also equipped the Tarquinia parachute school, the San Marco Regiment and, after the Armistice of Cassibile, the Paratroop Swimmers (NP) of the Decima Flottiglia MAS. The production, after the bombing of the Turin Volugrafo plants, was moved to Favria and continued until 1944 reaching a total of 2000 made. The Germans bought up these motorbikes, both by taking them from the 183rd Paratroopers Division Ciclone, and by continuing their production; they were assigned in particular to the paratroop units of the Luftwaffe engaged on the Adriatic coast and in the area of Rome.