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Savoia-Marchetti SM.87
Cold War (1970–1991)
The Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 Marsupiale was an Italian passenger and military transport aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s. It was a low-wing, trimotor monoplane of mixed metal and wood construction with a retractable tailwheel undercarriage. It was the last of a line of transport aeroplanes that Alessandro Marchetti began designing in the early 1930s. The SM.75 was fast, robust, capable of long-range flight and could carry up to 24 passengers for 1,000 miles.
Specifications
- Category
- Fixed Wing
- Domain
- Civil
- Era
- Cold War (1970–1991)
- Engine
- 3× 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines
- Thrust / Power
- 750 hp each
- Length (ft)
- 71
- Wingspan (ft)
- 97
- Empty Weight (lb)
- 20900
- MTOW (lb)
- 31900
- Service Ceiling (ft)
- 22966
- Range (mi)
- 1416
- Max Speed (mph)
- 229