Fiat RS.14

The Fiat RS.14 was an Italian long-range maritime strategic reconnaissance floatplane, a twin-engined all-metal monoplane with two floats and a glazed nose, designed by Manlio Stiavelli at the CMASA works at Marina di Pisa. Two Fiat A.74 radial engines of about 618 kilowatts each drove it to roughly 390 kilometres per hour. The first of two prototypes flew in May 1939 and 188 were built including the prototypes. The Regia Aeronautica used it for convoy escort and anti-submarine patrols from bases in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, and after the 1943 armistice survivors served the co-belligerent air force, with six flying in the Italian Air Force until 1948. A land-plane version, the AS.14, flew once in 1943.