what is it?
The CANT Z.1012 was a small three-engined monoplane built in Italy in the late 1930s to carry either three or five passengers depending on the engines. A small number were built for Italian diplomatic use.
How to recognise it: 3 piston engines with propellers · 15 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 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,300 km: 7× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1937-11-17
- retired
- 1943
- status
- retired
- number built
- 5
- role
- light civil transport
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- makers
- Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini
- engines
- 3× Alfa-Romeo 110 4-cylinder air-cooled inverted inline / Alfa Romeo 115 / Alfa Romeo 110
- crew
- 1
- length
- 10 m
- wingspan
- 15 m
- height
- 3.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,750 kg
- top speed
- 280 km/h
- cruise speed
- 240 km/h
- range
- 1,300 km
- ceiling
- 5,000 m
- wings
- monoplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3648501, Wikipedia: CANT Z.1012 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.