Caproni Ca.133

The Caproni Ca.133 was a three-engined transport and bomber aircraft used by the Italian Regia Aeronautica from the Second Italo-Abyssinian War until the Second World War. It was developed as a civilian airliner and successor to the Ca.101; the prototype first flew in December 1934 and production began in 1935. Designed by the engineer Rodolfo Verduzio, it was an improved Ca.101, robust, inexpensive and easy to maintain in difficult conditions, with a welded steel-tube structure covered in metal and fabric, a high-mounted wing of wood and steel, a fixed spatted undercarriage, and engines in the nose and under each wing in faired nacelles. The civil version carried up to 16 passengers and flew with Ala Littoria. Military versions served as transports and light bombers, mostly in Italian East Africa, and saw action on all fronts, and a stretched transport version was built as the Ca.148.