SIAI S.16

SIAI S.16
Francesco de Pinedo's SIAI S.16ter Gennariello landing on the Brisbane River in Australia in 1925 during his Rome-Australia-Tokyo-Rome flight.
General information
TypePassenger and military flying-boat
National originItaly
ManufacturerSIAI
Designer
Rafaele Conflenti
Primary userItalian Navy
History
First flight1919
Developed intoSavoia-Marchetti S.59

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

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