SIAI-Marchetti SF.600 Canguro

The SF.600 Canguro, meaning Kangaroo, was a small Italian feederliner developed in the late 1970s, built first by SIAI-Marchetti and later offered under the Vulcanair name. It was a high-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional layout with a rectangular fuselage, a high-set tail and a fixed tricycle undercarriage whose main units sat on sponsons along the fuselage sides. SIAI-Marchetti paid towards the prototype and built it at the former Aviamilano plant. The type was sold with two Allison 250 turboprops of about 313 kilowatts each, carrying two crew and nine passengers, but it found few buyers even with turboprops and an optional retractable undercarriage. Agusta kept offering it after buying SIAI-Marchetti, joint production schemes with Sammi in South Korea and PADC in the Philippines came to nothing, and Vulcanair bought the design in 1997 and reused its fuselage for the Vulcanair Mission.