what is it?
The Fiat G.8 was a military utility aircraft produced in Italy in the mid-1930s. Its design and production were undertaken at the CMASA works in Pisa which became part of Fiat in 1930, hence the type is sometimes referred to as the CMASA G.8 or Fiat-CMASA G.8. It was a conventional biplane design with staggered wings of unequal span braced by struts arranged in a Warren truss.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.8 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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1934
- retired
- 1950
- status
- retired
- number built
- 61
- role
- utility aircraft
- makers
- Fiat Aviazione
- engines
- 1× Fiat A.54
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 8.8 m
- height
- 2.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 840 kg
- top speed
- 212 km/h
- range
- 925 km
- ceiling
- 5,200 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3744455, Wikipedia: Fiat G.8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.