SIAI S.16

SIAI S.16
General De Pinedo's Savoia Marchetti seaplane landing on the Brisbane River in 1925.
Role	Passenger and military flying-boat
National origin	Italy
Manufacturer	SIAI
Designer	Rafaele Conflenti
First flight	1919
Primary user	Italian Navy

The SIAI S.16 was an Italian passenger flying-boat later used a military reconnaissance-bomber, claimed to be the most successful flying-boat of the 1920s.

The first flying-boat designed by the Societa Idrovolanti Alta Italia (SIAI) for use as a civilian passenger carrier, the S.13 was a biplane flying-boat with room for five passengers. The S.16 was powered by a single Fiat A.12bis engine. Military versions were also developed with a bow cockpit for an observer-gunner and bomb-racks fitted underneath the wings. The military version was sold to Brazil, Soviet Union, Spain and Turkey.

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