The CANT Z.506 Airone (Italian: Heron) was a trimotor floatplane produced by CANT from 1935. It served as a transport and postal aircraft with the Italian...
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structure. It was designed by Filippo Zappata, who also designed the CANT Z.506 and had "excellent flying characteristics and good stability". It was...
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The CRDA CANT Z.1018 Leone (Lion) was an Italian medium bomber of the 1940s. In 1939, the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Air Force) initiated its R Plan, or...
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smaller and lighter than the established CANT Z.506 reconnaissance bomber, which was a three engine aircraft. The Z.515 was a cantilever low wing monoplane...
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CANT Z.509 was a three-engine Italian floatplane developed from the Z.506A for use as a mailplane. Designed as a larger and heavier version of the Z.506A...
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The twin-engined CANT Z.1011 was one of two bombers of about the same size and powered by the same engines, designed by Filippo Zappata in the mid-1930s...
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At CANT, Zappata designed a series of successful multi-engined seaplanes such as the CANT Z.501 Gabbiano flying boat and the CANT Z.506 Airone floatplane...
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The CANT Z.501 Gabbiano (Italian: Gull) was a high-wing central-hull flying boat, with two outboard floats. It was powered by an engine installed in the...
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The CANT Z.1012 was a small three-engined monoplane built in Italy in the late 1930s to carry either three or five passengers depending on the engines...
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Retrieved 5 October 2024. "CANT Z-506". Aeronautica Militare. 16 October 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2024. "Cant Z.506 S Airone". aeronautica.difesa. Archived...
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The CANT Z.508 was a three-engine Italian flying boat developed from the CANT Z.501 for use as a heavy bomber. Designed as a scaled-up three-engine version...
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The CANT Z.511 was a four-engine long-range seaplane designed by Filippo Zappata of the "Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico" (CRDA) company. Originally designed...
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Junkers Ju 52 Junkers Ju 86 Fiat BR.20 Cicogna Heinkel He 111 CANT Z.501 Gabbiano CANT Z.506 Airone Deano (2019-01-26). "The Survivors: Spain's Fiat CR.32 Cricket...
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seaplanes were usually here at any one time including the types CANT Z.501 Gabbiano, CANT Z.506 Airone, Fiat RS.14 and the IMAM Ro.43. The base was protected by...
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confiscated aircraft Dornier Do 24 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor CANT Z.501 Gabbiano CANT Z.506 Airone Fairey Swordfish-Confiscated Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann Bücker...
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Jadida". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved June 12, 2022. "Crash of a CRDA CANT Z.506 Airone into the Mediterranean Sea: 14 killed | Bureau of Aircraft Accidents...
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Italians sent a CANT Z.506 Airone aircraft escorted by four C.205Vs on a search-and-rescue mission. A group of P-40s attacked the Z.506, but despite the...
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ISBN 978-99932-32-52-0 (in Italian) De Marchi, Italo – Tonizzo, Pietro. CANT. Z. 506 "airone"- CANT. Z. 1007 "alcione" . Modena, Mucchi Editorr, 1997. NO ISBN. Domange...
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liaison planes (one RWD-14 Czapla and two RWD-17), and a single modern CANT Z.506 Airone, purchased in Italy. Both squadron were to provide reconnaissance...
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result of a 1939 requirement for an improved version of the established CANT Z.506 reconnaissance bomber, which was a three engine aircraft. Work on the...
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Islands, dies along with the other three members of his crew when his CANT Z.506 Airone ("Heron") seaplane crashes off Pollença, Majorca, in a storm during...
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The CANT Z.504 was a prototype reconnaissance biplane flying boat made by CANT in the 1930s. Since the 1920s the Regia Aeronautica evaluated the opportunity...
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The CANT Z.1010 was a single engine, five seat Italian passenger aircraft flown in the mid-1930s. Only one was built. The Z.1010 was a wooden monoplane...
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The CANT Z.505 was a prototype trimotor transport floatplane built by CANT in the 1930s. In 1934 the airline Ala Littoria issued a specification for the...
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war. CANT 6 CANT 7 CANT 10 CANT 18 CANT 22 CANT 25 CANT 26 CANT 36 CANT 37 CANT Z.501 CANT Z.506 CANT Z.508 CANT Z.509 CANT Z.511 CANT Z.515 CANT Z.1007...
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down an Italian Regia Aeronautica (Royal Air Force) 287th Squadron CANT Z.506 Airone reconnaissance floatplane which had sighted Force H before the plane...
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Burdwan. The ten most injured survivors of Bedouin were picked up by a CANT Z.506 Airone (Heron) seaplane after a Luftwaffe aircraft had spotted them and dropped...
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82 transport and damaged another. On 23 November, he shot down a CANT Z.506 Airone floatplane near Sfax. The following day while on a patrol he destroyed...
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an anti-submarine screen and providing fighter cover. At noon, a CANT Z.506 Airone (Heron) reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by a Skua of 800 NAS...
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The CANT 10 was a flying boat airliner produced in Italy in the 1920s. It was a conventional biplane design with single-bay, unstaggered wings of equal...
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