what is it?
The Piaggio P.32 was an Italian medium bomber of the late 1930s, produced by Piaggio, and designed by Giovanni Pegna. It was a modern design for its time, but was a failure due to lack of powerplants commensurate with its high wing loading.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 18 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 90 years ago, in 1936.
- Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 18 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,950 km: 11× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1936
- introduced
- 1938
- retired
- 1939
- status
- retired
- number built
- 28
- role
- medium bomber
- makers
- Piaggio Aerospace
- engines
- 2× Isotta Fraschini Asso XI R.C.
- crew
- 5
- length
- 16.3 m
- wingspan
- 18 m
- height
- 5.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 7,335 kg
- top speed
- 400 km/h
- range
- 1,950 km
- ceiling
- 7,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3797059, Wikipedia: Piaggio P.32 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.