SIAI-Marchetti SM.101

The SIAI-Marchetti SM.101 was a single-engined light transport cabin monoplane of the late 1940s, designed and built by SIAI-Marchetti. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage whose main legs retracted, and its enclosed cabin held two crew and six passengers. A nose-mounted 235 horsepower Walter Bora radial engine powered it, giving a maximum speed of about 240 kilometres per hour at sea level and a range of 1,250 kilometres. The prototype, the only SM.101 built, first flew on 20 December 1947, but the company soon decided that a single-engined passenger transport was unlikely to sell and developed the design with two engines as the SM.102.