The Piaggio P.16 was an Italian three-engine heavy bomber that Piaggio designed and built for the Regia Aeronautica. It was a mostly metal shoulder-wing monoplane with inverted gull wings, a thick semi-elliptical wing, a high-mounted tail, retractable main landing gear and a spatted fixed tailwheel. Three Piaggio Stella P.IX radial engines of 520 kW each gave a maximum speed of 400 km/h and a range of 2,000 km with 1,000 kg of bombs. Defence was four 7.62 mm machine guns, two in the wing leading edge, one in a retractable dorsal turret and one under the rear fuselage. The prototype first flew in November 1934; an order for 12 was placed and then cancelled in favour of the Piaggio P.32.
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The P.16 first flew in November 1934
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was an Italian heavy bomber
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