Caproni Ca.111

The Caproni Ca.111 was a long-range reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber produced in Italy during the 1930s, a derivative of the Ca.101 with a different engine. It was meant for harsh conditions with minimal support. The engineer Rodolfo Verduzio designed it for Gianni Caproni in 1931, and it first flew in February 1932 as MM 205. It was a high-wing monoplane with a robust but simple structure, a tubular steel skeleton with a fabric and wood skin, a square-section fuselage and a nearly rectangular wing. A single Isotta Fraschini Asso 750 water-cooled W18 engine of 630 kilowatts gave a maximum speed of 280 kilometres per hour with a crew of three. A civil version was built with seven seats, the Ca.140 was a retractable-undercarriage prototype, and the redesigned Ca.112 was not put into production.