Savoia-Marchetti SM.82

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Savoia-Marchetti S.M.82
Type	Heavy bomber/transport
Manufacturer	Savoia-Marchetti
Maiden flight	1939
Retired	>1960
Status	out of service
Primary users	Italian Luftwaffe
Produced	1939-1943
Number built	400±

The Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 Canguru was an Italian bomber and transport aircraft of World War II. It was a cantilever, mid-wing monoplane trimotor with a retractable, tailwheel undercarriage.

Contents 1 Development 2 Operational history 3 Aircraft markings 4 Operators 5 Specifications (SM.82) 6 References 7 External links 8 Related content

[edit] Development

The SM.82 was developed from the earlier SM.75 Marsupiale civil transport as a heavy bomber and transport aircraft. The prototype first flew in 1939.

[edit] Operational history

It its primary role, the SM.82 proved underpowered. As a result, it was mainly used in its secondary role as a transport, in which it proved highly successful. It was equipped with special equipment to ease loading and the cabin was capacious enough to hold a dismantled CR.42 fighter. In the trooping role, it was fitted with forty folding seats but it often carried many more.

Around 400 were manufactured, entering service in 1941. A number were operated as transports by the Luftwaffe. After the armistice of 1943, the type continued in service with both fascist and co-belligerent forces.

After the war, about thirty continued in service with the air force until the early 1960s.

[edit] Aircraft markings

[edit] Operators

•  Germany
•  Italy
•  Italy (Italian Social Republic)
•  Italy (post-war)

[edit] Specifications (SM.82)

Data from ^[1]

General characteristics

• Capacity: (troop transport) 40 troops
• Length: 22.9 m (75 ft 1.5in)
• Wingspan: 29.68 m (97 ft 4.5 in)
• Height: 6.0 m (19 ft 8.25 in)
• Wing area: 118.6 m² (1,276.64 ft²)
• Empty weight: 10,550 kg (23,259 lb)
• Loaded weight: kg (lb)
• Useful load: kg (kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 18,020 kg (39,727 lb)

Performance

• Never exceed speed: km/h (knots, mph)
• Maximum speed: 370 km/h (knots, 230 mph)
• Cruise speed: 300 km/h (knots, 186 mph)
• Stall speed: km/h (knots, mph)
• Range: 3,000 km (nm, 1,864 mi)
• Service ceiling: 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
• Rate of climb: m/s (ft/min)
• Wing loading: kg/m² (lb/ft²)

Armament

(bomber) 1x12.7-mm (0.50-in) machine gun, 4x7.7-mm (0.303-in) machine gun, 4,000-kg (8,818-lb) bombload

[edit] References

1. ^ Mondey, David. Axis Aircraft of World War II. 

[edit] External links

U.S. Intelligence Summary of Italian SM-82

[edit] Related content

Related development

• Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 Marsupiale

Comparable aircraft

• Junkers Ju 52/3m