The CANT 10 was a
flying boat
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airliner
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produced in
Italy in the 1920s. It was a conventional
biplane
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design with single-bay,
unstaggered wings of equal span, having seating for four passengers within the
hull
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Structures
* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
, while the pilot sat in an open
cockpit
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The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the ...
. The
engine was mounted in
pusher configuration
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in the interplane gap.
Operational history
CANT 10 flying boats were used by
Società Italiana Servizi Aerei for over a decade, linking destinations in the
Adriatic Sea.
Two CANT 10ters were used by a company called TAXI AEREI in Buenos Aires, operating flights from the River Plate. One of them was lost in an accident and the other one was bought by the Paraguayan government for the Naval Aviation in 1929; it was used as a transport during the Chaco War and was withdrawn from use in 1933.
Variants
* CANT 10 :
* CANT 10ter :
Operators
*
**
Società Italiana Servizi Aerei (S.I.S.A.)
*
** TAXI AEREI
*
** Paraguayan Naval Aviation
Specifications
See also
References
*
aerei-italiani.net* Sapienza Fracchia, Antonio Luis: "La Contribución Italiana en la Aviación Paraguaya". Author's edition. Asunción, 2007. 300pp.
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CANT 10
1920s Italian airliners
Flying boats
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1925