🎖️ military retired
what is it?
The Fiat RS.14 was an Italian long-range maritime strategic reconnaissance floatplane. The RS.14 was a four/five seat all-metal cantilever low/mid-wing monoplane powered by two wing-mounted 626 kW (839 hp) Fiat A.74 R.C.38 engines. It had a conventional cantilever tail unit with a single fin and rudder.
How to recognise it: 2 engines · 19.5 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 87 years ago, in 1939.
- Top speed is 3.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 19.5 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 2,500 km: 14× Amsterdam to Brussels.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1939-05
- introduced
- 1941
- retired
- 1948
- status
- retired
- number built
- 188
- role
- long-range maritime reconnaissance floatplane
- makers
- Fiat
- engines
- 2× Fiat A.74 R.C.38 14-cylinder radial piston
- length
- 14.1 m
- wingspan
- 19.5 m
- height
- 5.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 8,470 kg
- top speed
- 390 km/h
- range
- 2,500 km
- ceiling
- 6,300 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2463634, Wikipedia: Fiat RS.14 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.