Caproni Ca.101

The Caproni Ca.101 was a three-engine Italian airliner that later saw military use as a transport and bomber. It was designed in 1927 and first flown in 1928 as a derivative of the Ca.97, with an enlarged airframe that raised the payload from 574 to 800 kilograms, about 20 percent of the maximum weight. Planned as a civil airliner, it was soon converted to the bomber and transport role. It had one engine in the nose and one under each high wing, a fixed undercarriage, and a fuselage of steel tube covered with fabric with a wooden floor. It was first fitted with the 149 kilowatt Armstrong Siddeley Lynx. In military form it carried eight soldiers, four wounded or 1,500 kilograms of cargo, with Lewis guns in the nose and ventral positions and bombs carried internally. The Regia Aeronautica retired its Ca.101s in 1939.