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Famed shipbuilding firm of Genoa, which was asked by Government 1916 to produce new fighter. Design of SV by Savoia and Verduzio (soon joined by Rosatelli), called SV.5 at first…
Founded about November 1909 at Via Salbertrand, Turin, by Francesco Darbesio and Ing. Origoni (initially in factory of Darbesio’s Taurinia motor firm). First aircraft resembled Farman biplane. Nos. 2, 3…
Aeronautica Umbra Trojani, formed by Muzio Macchi 1935 at Foligno, south of Florence, built S.M.79 but never achieved major success with own designs despite several adequate prototypes. Best-known, AUT.18 fighter…
Classic F.8 Falco 2-seater designed by Stelio Frati (June 1955), manufacture later passed to Aeromere. P.19 Scricciolo side-by-side trainer (December 1959), staple product along with several sailplanes. Final prototype Frati’s…
Formed 1988 by Partenavia and 2 other partners to produce P.86 Mosquito 2-seater. Also produced more powerful P.66D Delta.
Formed 1939 by renaming Vercellese as Azionari Vercellese Industrie Aeronautiche. Continued to produce FL.3, again renamed 1947 as Lombardi.
Bacini e Scali Napoletani began 1923 with repairs to marine aircraft and progressed to licence construction 1936.
Designer Filippo Bastianelli gave his name to PRB flying-boat, first product of Società Industriale per l'Aviazione 1918. Large biplane, civil or military, 4 300-hp Fiat in tandem pairs.
Cantieri Aeronautici Bergamaschi formed at Bergamo 1926 to produce improved training aircraft, C.1 and C.2 biplanes. Became subsidiary of Caproni 1931, hence A.P.1 close-support monoplane, Borea, Ghibli and Libbecio received…
This Milan company built BN.1 Saetta, twin-fuselage fighter, designed by Nardi, completed 1939 but not flown until fitted with 2 1,350-hp DB 605. Bestelli-Colombo C.3 4-seat tourer with 2 135-hp…
Aeronàutica Vittorio Bonomi built several light aircraft 1926-30; see Bossi-Bonomi. Became Lombarda.
This company built at least 8 aeroplanes 1910-13. First appears to have been Bossi-Majoli biplane of 1911 with girder fuselage and chain reduction drive from low Gnome to high propeller.…
Enea Bossi and Vittorio Bonomi built pioneer man-powered aircraft 1937, claimed flights near 1 km.
Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, Milan engineering company, was given 1916 contract to build Caproni bombers. Then followed profusion of original designs, covering many aircraft categories: A.2 cantilever monoplane 1921 for…
BredaNardi Costruzioni Aeronautiche formed Milan 15 February 1971 by Breda and Nardi in equal shares to build Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas) 300C and 500C helicopters and derivatives. Became subsidiary of…
Alitalia captain Renato Bucciero, assisted by Gastone Canal, built SVIT training/touring aircraft 1969.
Costruzioni Aeronautiche Novaresi SA, at Cameri, Novara, was subsidiary of Fiat. Among first designs were Lictor 90 (90 hp) and Lictor 130 (130 hp) low-wing cabin monoplanes of 1935. First…
Formed 1923 as Cantieri Navali Triestino, sometimes rendered as CNT or Cant but correctly as CANT, wholly-owned subsidiary of famed shipyard Cantieri Navali di Monfalcone, also of Trieste. Appointed chief…
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