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Savoia-Marchetti S.74

1934 four engine airliner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ1154796 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Savoia-Marchetti S.74 was a four-engine airliner developed by Savoia-Marchetti for Ala Littoria.

Design and development

The prototype first flew on 16 November 1934. Only three were ever built.

Operational history

The aircraft were used in passenger service. On 22 December 1937, one broke the speed record over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi), at 322.089 km/h (200.137 mph). When Italy entered World War II in 1940, they were put into service as military transport aircraft for the Regia Aeronautica. None of the three survived the war.

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“Savoia-Marchetti S.74” enters the record as 1934 four engine airliner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Savoia-Marchetti, four and engine can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Savoia-Marchetti S.74” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.