what is it?
The Ambrosini SAI.3 was a two-seat Italian touring airplane first flown in 1937.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.5 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.5 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1937
- number built
- 10
- role
- general aviation aircraft
- makers
- SAI Ambrosini
- engines
- 1× Fiat A.50 / Sh 14 / Alfa Romeo 115
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 10.5 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 788 kg
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- cruise speed
- 169 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 3,999 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3459176, Wikipedia: Ambrosini SAI.3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.