Piaggio P.8

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Piaggio P.8 was an Italian reconnaissance floatplane built by Piaggio for the Regia Marina. It was designed to operate from the submarine Ettore Fieramosca, with a watertight cylindrical hangar for quick assembly on the surface and fast disassembly after recovery. The plane was a single-seat, parasol-wing monoplane with twin floats under the fuselage. It was powered by a 56 kW (75 hp) Blackburn Cirrus II engine and could reach about 135 km/h (84 mph). The P.8 first flew in 1928. Ettore Fieramosca, commissioned in 1930, considered several small seaplanes including the P.8, but none were ever used aboard; the submarine’s hangar was removed in 1931.