SIAI-Marchetti
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| Industry | Aerospace |
|---|---|
| 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 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 Marshall 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 6 years after the war before declaring bankruptcy in 1951. 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.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 SM.62 - bomber/reconnaissance flying boat (1926)
- 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 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 - airliner/transport (1939)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.77
- Savoia-Marchetti S.78 - bomber/reconnaissance flying boat (1932)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero - bomber (1934)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.80 - touring amphibian (1933)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 Pipistrello - bomber/transport (1935)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 Canguru - heavy bomber/transport (1939)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.83 - 10-passenger transport (1937)
- 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 - bomber (1941)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.90 - prototype transport (re-engined SM.75)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.91 - twin-engined heavy fighter prototype (1943)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.92 - twin-engined heavy fighter prototype (1943)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.93 - dive bomber (1943)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 - transport/airliner (1943)
- SIAI-Marchetti SM.101 - single-engine transport aircraft (1947)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.102 - twin-engine transport aircraft (1949)
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.105 - military/civil transport aircraft
- SIAI-Marchetti FN.333 Riviera - luxury touring amphibian flying boat (1952)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.205 - four-seat liaison aircraft (1965)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.210 - twin-engined cabin aircraft (1970)
- SIAI-Marchetti S.211 - two-seat jet trainer, light attack aircraft (1981)
- 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
- Gunston, Bill (2006). World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines, 5th Edition. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England, UK: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7509-4479-X.
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