SIAI S.67

The SIAI S.67 was an Italian flying boat fighter of the early 1930s, designed and built by Societa Idrovolanti Alta Italia. In 1929 the Regia Marina awarded SIAI a contract for a catapult-launched fighter to be carried aboard Condottieri-class cruisers, and the company responded with a wooden, single-seat monoplane flying boat powered by a 313 kilowatt Fiat A.20 V12 engine driving a three-bladed pusher propeller and armed with two 7.7 millimetre Vickers machine guns. Six men aboard a cruiser could erect it on its catapult and have it ready within five minutes. It first flew on 28 January 1930 and the prototype crashed in April. Two production aircraft served with the 162nd Squadron of the 88th Maritime Fighter Group until 1935.