what is it?
The Fiat G.212 was an Italian three-engine airliner of the 1940s. An enlarged development of Fiat's earlier G.12 transport, it was used in small numbers in commercial service and by the Italian Air Force.
How to recognise it: 3 piston engines with propellers · 29.3 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 79 years ago, in 1947.
- Top speed is 2.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 29.3 m: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
- Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Range of 3,001 km: 17× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1947-01-19
- introduced
- 1947
- number built
- 19
- role
- airliner
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- makers
- Fiat, Fiat Aviazione
- engines
- 3× Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G Twin Wasp
- crew
- 3
- passengers
- 34
- length
- 23.1 m
- wingspan
- 29.3 m
- height
- 8.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 17.4 t
- top speed
- 380 km/h
- cruise speed
- 300 km/h
- range
- 3,001 km
- ceiling
- 7,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q942458, Wikipedia: Fiat G.212 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.