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Savoia-Marchetti was an Italian aircraft company. It was founded in 1915 and originally named SIAI (Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia - Seaplane company of Northern Italy). After World War I gained the name Savoia, when it acquired the Società Anonima Costruzioni Aeronautiche Savoia, an Italian aircraft company founded by Umberto Savoia in 1915.

The name Marchetti was added when chief designer Allessandro Marchetti joined the company in 1922. Shortly thereafter, the company began to develop a reputation for very fast, well performing aircraft. With the development of the wildly successful S.55 flying boat, Savoia-Marchetti exploded onto the aviation scene as a dominant manufacturer. Savoia-Marchetti became famous for series flying boats and seaplanes, which set numerous endurance and speed records. Favoured by Air Marshall Italo Balbo, the company began rapidly prototyping and developing a number of other aircraft, increasingly focusing on warplanes in the lead-up to World War II. However, most of S.M.'s manufacturing capabilities were destroyed in World War Two.

Savoia-Marchetti only survived in post war Italy by building trucks and railway equipment. However it still struggled with insolvency for 6 years after the war before declaring bankruptcy in 1951. In 1953, the company re-opened as a shadow of its former self. It began to focus increasingly on helicopters in the 1970s and was eventually purchased by the aerospace firm Agusta in 1983.

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Type Flying boat
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti
Designed by Alessandro Marchetti
Maiden flight August 1924
Introduced 1926
Retired 1945
Primary users Societa Idrovolanti Alto Italia (Savoia)
Regia Aeronautica

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A flying boat is a type of aircraft which uses its fuselage as a floating hull, generally stabilised on the water surface by underwing floats or stub projections. It is a specialised form of seaplane, an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water utilising a carriage
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Italo Balbo (June 5, 1896 - June 28, 1940) was an Italian blackshirt leader, aviator, governor of Libya, and heir apparent of Mussolini.

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Balbo was born in Quartesana, near Ferrara (Italy), in 1896.
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helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades. Helicopters are classified as rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from fixed-wing aircraft because the helicopter derives
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Agusta (now part of AgustaWestland) is an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It is based in the Varese province of Italy, with its main manufacturing plant being at Cascina Costa. It is a subsbidiary of Finmeccanica.
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Type Flying boat
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti
Designed by Alessandro Marchetti
Maiden flight August 1924
Introduced 1926
Retired 1945
Primary users Societa Idrovolanti Alto Italia (Savoia)
Regia Aeronautica

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Type Reconnaissance flying boat
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti The Savoia-Marchetti SM.62 was an Italian single-engined maritime reconnaissance flying boat produced from 1926.
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Savoia-Marchetti S.74 was a four engine airliner developed by Savoia-Marchetti for Ala Littoria.

Design and development

The prototype first flew on 16 November 1934. Only three were ever built.
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Type Reconnaissance flying boat
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti The Savoia-Marchetti SM.62 was an Italian single-engined maritime reconnaissance flying boat produced from 1926.
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SM.75 Marsupiale
Type Civil airliner & military transport
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti
Maiden flight 1937
Introduced 1938
Status out of service
Primary users Italy
Hungary[1]
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Type Bomber/reconnaissance flying boat
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti
Maiden flight 1932
Number built 49 The Savoia-Marchetti SM.78 was an Italian bomber/reconnaissance biplane flying boat of the early 1930s.

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Type Bomber and transport aircraft
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti
Maiden flight 1934
Introduced 1935
Retired 1950
Primary users Regia Aeronautica
Spanish Air Force
Aeronautica Militare Italiana
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The Savoia-Marchetti SM.
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Type Dive-bomber
Manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti
Maiden flight 19 December 1936
Retired 1940
Primary user Regia Aeronautica
Number built 34 The Savoia-Marchetti SM.
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