Piaggio P.136

The Piaggio P.136 is an Italian twin-engine amphibian flying boat designed and manufactured by Piaggio Aero. It has an all-metal hull, pusher propellers, a gull wing and retractable landing gear, and it carries up to five people with baggage or two stretchers with an attendant. The prototype made its first flight in late 1948. In the United States it was sold as the Royal Gull by Kearney and Trecker, which assembled aircraft from parts imported from Italy. The Italian Air Force bought 14 for coastal patrol and air-sea rescue, and private and civil operators also took some. In the late 1950s the land-based utility aircraft P.166 was developed from it.