Fiat G.212 – Wikipedia

The Fiat G.212 It was a low -wing Timper transport plane produced by the Italian Air Force Fiat Aviation company in the late 1940s and employed both in the civil and military sphere after the post -war period.

The project was started by Giuseppe Gabrielli towards the end of 1943 with the aim of replacing the Fiat G.12 with a plane of greater power, but the trend of the war and a veto placed by the German military authorities delayed the project, whose prototype flew on January 20, 1947.

The prototype, called G.212 CA , was motorized with three Alfa Romeo 128 RC.18 engines that paid 860 HP and was designed for civil transport; Even the Air Force was interested in the project and completed its evaluation tests.

Unlike the predecessor, of which he maintained the general setting, the G.212 had a new fuselage, capable of transporting up to 30 passengers.

The Fiat G.212 was mainly employed in commercial services: 9 specimens of the civil variant were used by the airline Ali, an airline owned by Fiat, starting from 1948, operating mainly on international connections based in Milan. It was a G.212 of the Ali that on May 4, 1949 he impacted against the wall of the back of the Basilica of Superga, in what became known as the tragedy of Superga, in which the entire football team of the “Grande Torino” died. ^[5]

In the same period 3 specimens were used by the Egyptian Saide, who employed them until 1950 on the route the Cairo-Bengasi-Tripoli-Tunisi. Subsequently they were forfeited by military aviation and were employed in 1957, at the time of the Arab-Israeli war, for the exchange of prisoners.

The Italian military aeronautics instead purchased about ten specimens of Fiat G.212, which were used starting from 1948 in training and transport tasks.

Fiat G.212 CA

Prototype equipped with the 860 horsepower Alfa Romeo 128 RC.18.

Fiat g.212 of

It is a 1949 version equipped for the education in flight and used by the AMI: under the fuselage there was a gondola windowed with two seats alongside the student and instructor and equipped with equipment for the pointing and photojourcing.

Fiat G.212 CP

Version intended for commercial use, which compared to the prototype mounted Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G Twin Wasp engines.

Fiat G.212 TP

Transport version which flew in 1950.

Civil [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Egypt

France

Italy

Kuwait

Military [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Egypt

Italy

A single G.212 has saved himself from demolition and is also the only still existing Fiat trimator. It is exhibited at the Historical Museum of Air Force.

• Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi, Airplani guide around the world – civil models from 1935 to 1960 , 1st edition, Verona, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, January 1978.
• ( IN ) David Donald, The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft , Aerospace Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-85605-375-X.

Magazines [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• ( IN ) John Stroud, Post War Propliners: Fiat G.12 and G.212 , in Aeroplane Monthly , Volume 23, No. 1, London, IPC, January 1994, pp. 64-68.

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