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| Role | Night bomber Type of aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Piaggio |
| Designer | Giovanni Pegna |
| First flight | 1923 |
| Primary user | Regia Aeronautica |
ThePiaggio P.3 was an Italian nightbomberprototype built byPiaggio in 1923.
Designed byIngGiovanni Pegna, the P.3 was a four-engine, two-baybiplane with wings of unequal span, the lower wing being greater in span than the upper. Its four 149-kilowatt (200-horsepower) S.P.A. 6A engines were mounted in tandem pairs on the lower wing, with each engine driving one of fourpropellers, two mounted in atractor and two in apusher configuration. The P.3's tail was of biplane configuration with threerudders mounted between the two planes. The crew of four consisted of a pilot, co-pilot, nose gunner, and rear gunner; the pilot and co-pilot sat side by side in acockpit just ahead of the wings, the nose gunner manned amachine gun mounted in a cockpit in front of them, and the rear gunner manned two machine guns, one in an amidships cockpit behind the pilots and another mounted in a ventral tunnel for defense against attacks from below.
The P.3 made its first flight in 1923, and Piaggio later installed two 306-kilowatt (410-horsepower)Fiat A.20V engines on the aircraft. However, theRegia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) did not place a production order for the P.3.
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