Savoia-Marchetti SM.95

The Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 was an Italian four-engine, mid-range transport aircraft designed by Alessandro Marchetti as the successor to the SM.75. It was announced in 1937, when four-engine aircraft were seen as the future, and began as the SM.76 with four Alfa Romeo engines before being renamed SM.95C in 1939. The war halted the project until December 1941, when the airline LATI asked for a four-engined aircraft for its South American routes. Construction was mixed, with a welded steel fuselage structure and wooden wings, and it normally seated 20 to 30 passengers, up to 38 over short ranges. It first flew in 1943, but the armistice that September stopped the programme after only two aircraft, which Germany requisitioned. Production resumed after the war and the last of twenty was completed on 18 November 1949.