CANT Z-506 B Airone. 1939 - Construction
Kraków 2020-03-25
00139b Section 1939
CANT Z-506 B Airone
Poland
Torpedo bomber seaplane
Construction
The CANT Z-506 aircraft was designed as a two-float transport seaplane, which is powered by three star engines.
Wings
The wooden structure has three girders. The wings are covered with plywood.
Fuselage
The wooden hull is covered with plywood. The floats are made of duralumin coated with chitonal and are 12.50 meters long. Each float has six chambers.
Engines
Engines: 3 × Alfa Romeo 126 R.C.34 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, each 560 kW (750 HP). Propellers: 3-blade propellers with variable pitch.
Armament
Guns:
1 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) Isotta Fraschini-Scotti machine gun
3 × 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine guns
Bombs:
1,200 kg (2,645 lb) of general ordnance or
1 × 816 kg (1,800 lb) torpedo
Data T-T CANT Z-506
- Length: 19.24 m (63 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 26.5 m (86 ft 11 in)
- Height: 7.45 m (24 ft 5 in)
- Wing area: 86.26 m2 (928.5 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 8,750 kg (19,290 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 12,705 kg (28,010 lb)
- Powerplant: 3 × Alfa Romeo 126 R.C.34 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, 560 kW (750 hp) each
- Propellers: 3-bladed variable-pitch propellers
- Maximum speed: 350 km/h (220 mph, 190 kn)
- Cruise speed: 299 km/h (186 mph, 161 kn)
- Range: 1,998 km (1,241 mi, 1,079 nmi) with a 950 kg (2,095 lb) bomb load
- Endurance: 6 hours 26 minutes
- Service ceiling: 7,000 m (23,000 ft)
- Time to altitude: 3,999 m (13,120 ft) in 20 minutes
Written by Karol Placha Hetman