Caproni Ca.134

The Caproni Ca.134 was a two-seat reconnaissance biplane built by Caproni in the 1930s. It had a metal fuselage with metal panels and tandem cockpits, the observer's with side windows and a defensive machine gun, a biplane tail with twin fins, and an inverted sesquiplane wing arrangement braced with N-shaped struts and steel wire. The landing gear was fixed with trouser fairings, and a 662 kW Isotta Fraschini Asso XI R.C.40 V-12 drove the propeller. Armament was a 12.7 mm fixed gun and a 7.7 mm gun in the rear cockpit. The Ministry of Aeronautics issued a specification for a strategic land reconnaissance aircraft in 1936; the Ca.134 was evaluated at Guidonia on 23 January 1937 but won no order, and it appears to have been permanently grounded on 11 May 1939.