__NOTOC__ The CANT 7 was a

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and

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that was produced in

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in the 1920s. It was a conventional

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design with single-bay, unstaggered wings of equal span, with the single

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mounted below the upper wing. The aircraft was designed to prepare pilots for flying boat

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s, and most of the examples produced were purchased by

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for this purpose.

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(S.I.S.A.)

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