Savoia-Marchetti S.65

The Savoia-Marchetti S.65 was an Italian racing seaplane built for the 1929 Schneider Trophy race. It was a single-seat, twin-engine floatplane of low-wing monoplane layout with two floats and a tailplane carried on two booms, and its two 745 kW Isotta Fraschini engines were mounted in tandem, one in the nose driving a tractor propeller and the other at the rear of the fuselage driving a pusher. The S.65 was excluded from the 1929 race because of mechanical problems. Its first test flight, on 18 January 1930 with Tommaso Dal Molin at the controls, ended when it plunged into Lake Garda and the pilot was killed. The project was abandoned and the second S.65 was kept in the SIAI museum until 1939.