The Ambrosini SAI.2S was a four-seat
light aircraft produced in
Italy shortly before
World War II.
Design and construction
It was a low-wing,
cantilever cabin
monoplane of conventional configuration with fixed,
tailwheel undercarriage
Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft
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. It first appeared in 1937 and was initially powered by the
Alfa Romeo 115-I engine of . At least one example was converted postwar with the
de Havilland Gipsy Six Series II of .
The aircraft was primarily of wooden construction, the
fuselage being a wooden monocoque and the two-spar wing having a
duralumin
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Its use as a tra ...
-covered centre-section built integral with the fuselage and internally reinforced with steel tubes. The wing carried
Handley Page slots and
split flaps, and dual controls were fitted.
Operation
The type was produced in small numbers, for use by private pilot owners. Two examples were operational in 1965. One aircraft was still extant , and is preserved at the
Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics at Trento Airport.
Despite the similar designation, this design was unrelated to the earlier
SAI.2
Specifications
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SAI Ambrosini aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
1930s Italian civil utility aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1937