Ambrosini SAI.2S
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. It first appeared in 1937 and was initially powered by the Alfa Romeo 115-I engine of Script error: No such module "convert".. At least one example was converted postwar with the de Havilland Gipsy Six Series II of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1]
The aircraft was primarily of wooden construction, the fuselage being a wooden monocoque and the two-spar wing having a duralumin-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.[1]
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 since 2006[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., and is preserved at the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics at Trento Airport.[2]
Despite the similar designation, this design was unrelated to the earlier SAI.2
Specifications
References
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