SIAI-Marchetti
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Industry | Aerospace |
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Founded | 1915 |
Defunct | 1983 |
Fate | Absorbed by Agusta in 1983 Absorbed by Aermacchi in 1997 |
Headquarters | Italy |
Products | Transport aircraft Bombers Experimental planes Air force trainers Seaplanes |
SIAI-Marchetti was an Italian aircraft manufacturer.
History
The original company was founded in 1915 as SIAI (Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia - Seaplane company of Northern Italy). After World War I it gained the name Savoia, when it acquired the Società Anonima Costruzioni Aeronautiche Savoia, an Italian aircraft company founded by Umberto Savoia in 1915.
The name Marchetti was added when chief designer Alessandro Marchetti joined the company in 1922. Savoia-Marchetti gained prominence with the successful S.55 flying boat. Savoia-Marchetti became famous for its flying boats and seaplanes, which set numerous endurance and speed records. Favoured by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, the company began rapidly prototyping and developing a number of other aircraft, increasingly focusing on warplanes in the lead-up to World War II. However, most of S.M.'s manufacturing capabilities were destroyed in World War Two. It was renamed SIAI-Marchetti in 1943.
SIAI-Marchetti only survived in postwar Italy by building trucks and railway equipment.[citation needed] However it still struggled with insolvency for six years after the war before declaring bankruptcy in September 1951, with all staff being dismissed, although more than half were re-employed by the liquidator to complete existing orders.[1] In 1953, the company reopened. It began to focus increasingly on helicopters in the 1970s and was eventually purchased by the aerospace firm Agusta in 1983.
Aircraft
- SIAI S.8 - two-seat reconnaissance flying boat (1917)
- SIAI S.9 - two-seat flying boat (1918)
- SIAI S.12 - two-seat reconnaissance flying boat (1918) and racing seaplane (as Savoia S.12, 1920)
- SIAI S.13 - two-seat reconnaissance flying boat (ca. 1919)
- SIAI S.16 - flying boat (1919)
- SIAI S.17 - racing flying boat (1920)
- SIAI S.19 - racing flying boat (1920)
- SIAI S.21 - racing flying boat (1921)
- SIAI S.22 - racing flying boat (1921)
- SIAI S.23 - biplane flying boat trainer (1922)
- SIAI S.50 - 1922 redesignation of Marchetti MVT fighter prototype (1919)
- SIAI S.51 - racing flying boat (1922)
- SIAI S.52 - fighter prototype (1924)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.55 - double-hulled flying boat (1924)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.56 - three-seat trainer/touring flying boat (1924)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.57 - reconnaissance flying boat (1923)
- SIAI S.58 - single-seat flying boat fighter prototype (1924)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.59 - reconnaissance/bomber flying boat (1925)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.60 - high-speed monoplane bomber project (1925)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.62 - bomber/reconnaissance flying boat (1926)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.63 - flying boat airliner, single-hull version of S.55 (1927)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.64 - record breaking aircraft (1928)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.65 - twin engined push/pull racing seaplane (1929)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.66 - 22-passenger flying boat (1931)
- SIAI S.67 - single-seat flying boat fighter (1930)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.70 - high-speed attack/bomber project (1930s)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.71 - eight-passenger light transport (1930)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.72 - bomber/transport (1934)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.73 - 18-passenger airliner/transport (1934)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.74 - airliner (1934)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 - airliner/transport (1937)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.76 (I) - projected four-engined version of SM.75 (1937); redesignated as SM.95 in 1939
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.76 (II) - SM.75 for LATI (1940)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.77 - flying boat airliner (1937)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.78 - bomber/reconnaissance flying boat (1932)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero - medium bomber (1934)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.80 - touring amphibian (1933)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 Pipistrello - bomber/transport (1935)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 Marsupiale - heavy bomber/transport (1939)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.83 - 10-passenger transport, civilized version of SM.79 (1937)
- Savoia-Marchetti S.84 - prototype airliner developed from the S.73 (1936)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.84 - medium bomber/torpedo bomber (1940)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.85 - dive bomber (1936)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.86 - dive bomber (1940)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.87 - floatplane version of SM.75 (1940)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.88 - twin-engined heavy fighter prototype (1939)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.89 - ground attack (1941)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.90 - prototype transport developed from the SM.75
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.91 - prototype twin-engine long-range fighter-bomber (1943)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.92 - prototype twin-engine heavy fighter/bomber (1943)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.93 - dive bomber (1943)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.94
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 - transport/airliner (1943)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.96 (I) - projected cargo version of SM.95 (1942)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.96 (II) - projected single-seat monoplane fighter (1940s)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.96 (III) - projected twin-tail assault transport (1940s)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.97 - four engine airliner study (1943?)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.99 - two or three engine transport study (1940s)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.101 - single-engine transport aircraft (1947)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.102 - twin-engine transport aircraft (1949)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.103 - low-wing fighter-trainer project
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.104 - twin engine, twin boom transport project (1946)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.105 Canguro - projected military/civil transport aircraft (1947)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.106 - four engine high-wing transport project
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.107 - twin-engine low-wing transport project
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.10X - low-wing twin-engine jet fighter project (1949)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.109 - four engine high-wing cargo transport project
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.110 Chimera II - four engine jet airliner project (1950)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.112 - twin-turboprop airliner project (1953-1957)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.115 - transport aircraft project (1950s)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.122 - twin-turboprop airliner project (1953-1957)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.132 - twin-engine low-wing jetliner project (1953-1954)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.133 - twin-engine interceptor/fighter project
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.155 - twin-hull transatlantic flying boat project (1944)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.166 - twin-hull flying boat project
- SIAI-Marchetti FN.333 Riviera - luxury touring amphibian flying boat (1952)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.201 - V/STOL transport project
- SIAI-Marchetti S.202 - two-seat trainer, project sold to FFA
- SIAI-Marchetti S.204 - twin turboprop light transport project (1960s)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.205 - four-seat liaison aircraft (1965)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.206 - projected 5-6 seat version of S.205 (1967?)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.208 - 5-seat version of S.205 (1967)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.210 - twin-engined cabin aircraft (1970)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.211 - two-seat jet trainer, light attack aircraft (1981)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.226 - 22 passenger business jet project (1980s)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.229 - swept-wing canard twin engine jet aircraft project, enlarged version of S.226 (1980s)
- SIAI Marchetti SF.260 - aerobatics plane and a military trainer (1964)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019 - STOL liaison, observation aircraft (1969)
- SIAI Marchetti SF.600 Canguro - feederliner aircraft (1978)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.700 - general purpose amphibian aircraft (not built)
- FFA AS-202 Bravo - two/three-seat light civil aircraft (1969)
See also
References
- ^ Bridgman 1953, p. 144
- Bridgman, Leonard (1952). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1952–53. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd.
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(help) - Gunston, Bill (2006). World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines (5th ed.). Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England, UK: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7509-4479-X.
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