SIAI-Marchetti SM.102

The SIAI-Marchetti SM.102 was a twin-engined light transport cabin monoplane of the late 1940s, developed from the abandoned single-engined SM.101. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage whose main gear retracted, and its enclosed cabin held two crew and eight passengers. The prototype, registered I-NDIA, had two 500 horsepower Ranger engines and first flew on 24 February 1949 from Vergiate; it was demonstrated in India and elsewhere in the Middle and Far East without winning orders. The design was then re-engined with two 450 horsepower Pratt and Whitney Wasp Junior radials to meet an Italian Air Force light transport requirement, flew on 7 April 1950, and 21 served with the air force until 1959.