Caproni Ca.132

The Caproni Ca.132 was a prototype for a large aircraft built in Italy in 1934, intended for use as either a bomber or an airliner. It was a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by a radial engine on each wing and one in the nose, with the main undercarriage housed within large streamlined spats. Configured as an airliner it would have seated 20 passengers. The Regia Aeronautica of the Kingdom of Italy took it for evaluation only. The figures given for the bomber version are a crew of four, a length of 18.6 metres, a wingspan of 26.69 metres, an empty mass of 7,000 kilograms, a gross mass of 10,700 kilograms and a maximum speed of 314 kilometres per hour, with three Piaggio Stella P.IX engines, four machine guns and 900 kilograms of bombs.