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SM.75 | |
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General information | |
Type | Civil airliner & military transport |
Manufacturer | Savoia-Marchetti |
Designer | Alessandro Marchetti (1884–1966) |
Primary users | Italy Hungary |
Number built | 90[1] |
History | |
Introduction date | 1938 |
First flight | 1937 |
Retired | 1949[2] |
Variants | Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 |
The Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 Marsupiale (Italian: marsupial) was an Italian passenger and military transport aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s. It was a low-wing, trimotor monoplane of mixed metal and wood construction with a retractable tailwheel undercarriage. It was the last of a line of transport aeroplanes that Alessandro Marchetti began designing in the early 1930s. The SM.75 was fast, robust, capable of long-range flight and could carry up to 24 passengers for 1,000 miles.[3]