Caproni Ca.95

The Caproni Ca.95 was a large, three-engine, long-range heavy bomber prototype built in Italy in 1929, carrying a 1,600 kg bomb load and three defensive gun positions. Only one was built. It was a high-wing monoplane with fixed landing gear, steel-tube framed throughout and almost entirely fabric covered, its very large wing in three parts braced by struts to the undercarriage. The octagonal fuselage held a side-by-side enclosed cabin for the pilots, a bomb bay under the wing, retractable dorsal and ventral gun turrets and a third gun in the tail. Three 750 kW Isotta Fraschini Asso 1000 water-cooled W-18 engines powered it, one in the nose and two at the ends of the wing centre-section. The exact first flight date is uncertain, but it was probably flying by May 1930, and it served in an experimental aircraft squadron of the Regia Aeronautica until 1934.