CANT 26

CANT 26
General information
Type	Biplane trainer
Manufacturer	CANT
Number built	7
History
First flight	1928

The CANT 26 was an Italian two-seat biplane trainer built by CANT.

Design and development

The CANT 26 was an unusual product of CANT as it was a landplane. It was a two-seat biplane with tailwheel landing gear and powered by a 60 kW (80 hp) engine. Only seven examples were built, one of which competed in the Challenge 1929 trials, and another of which was temporarily converted into a seaplane. One plane was registered in Argentina as R-183 and it was later sold to an Italian citizen resident in Paraguay, Nicola Bo in 1932. He sold it to the Paraguayan Military Air Arm. It received the serial T-6 and it was used as a liaison aircraft during the Chaco War. It was destroyed in a fatal accident during the war on May 5, 1933, killing Capt. José D. Jara (pilot) and Lt. Niemann (passenger).

Operators

  Paraguay

• Paraguayan Air Force

Specifications

CANT 26 3-View drawing from L'Air January 15, 1929

Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928 ^[1]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 7 m (23 ft 0 in)
• Wingspan: 10 m (32 ft 10 in)
• Height: 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 26.2 m² (282 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 370 kg (816 lb)
• Gross weight: 650 kg (1,433 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Isotta Fraschini Asso 80 6-cyl air-cooled in-line piston engine, 60 kW (80 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 150 km/h (93 mph, 81 kn)
• Stall speed: 62 km/h (39 mph, 33 kn)
• Range: 810 km (500 mi, 440 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 3,800 m (12,500 ft)
• Wing loading: 25 kg/m² (5.1 lb/sq ft)
• Power/mass: 0.238 kW/kg (0.145 hp/lb)

References

1. Grey, C.G., ed. (1928). Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928. London: Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd. pp. 160c –161c.

Further reading

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing
• Sapienza Fracchia, Antonio Luis: "La Contribución Italiana en la Aviación Paraguaya". Author's edition. Asunción, 2007. 300pp.

External links

• aerei-italiani.net