Caproni Ca.193

The Caproni Ca.193 was an Italian liaison and air-taxi aircraft offered to the Italian Air Force as an instrument flight trainer and to the Navy for liaison. Design began in 1945 and only the prototype was built, the last aircraft Caproni designed and built in Milan. It was all-metal, with cantilever mid-mounted wings, a monocoque fuselage with a hinged nose for loading a stretcher, seating for one pilot and five passengers or two pilots and three, a tricycle undercarriage and twin fins. Two Walter Minor 6-III engines drove pusher propellers. Registered I-POLO, it first flew on 13 May 1949 at Linate, was bought by the Air Force in March 1950, sold for civil use in 1952 and withdrawn in 1960 at Trento, and is now displayed at the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics.