Breda Ba.32

Ba.32
The sole Ba.32 prototype
Role	Airliner
Manufacturer	Breda
First flight	1931[1]
Number built	2?(second, with FIAT engines, may have been a conversion)[1]

The Breda Ba.32 was an Italian airliner prototype designed and built by the Breda company.^[1]

Design and development

The Breda Ba.32 was a low-wing trimotor monoplane with fixed, spatted main landing gear. It was powered by three Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engines. It had a crew of two, and its cabin could accommodate up to 10 passengers.^[1]

The Ba.32 prototype first flew in 1931, but despite displaying good flight characteristics, no production orders ensued and no further examples were built.^[1]

Operators

 Kingdom of Italy

Specifications (Ba.32)

Data from Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930-1945^[1]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Capacity: 8-11
• Length: 16.749 m (54 ft 11.4 in)
• Wingspan: 26.67 m (87 ft 6 in)
• Height: 4.153 m (13 ft 7.5 in)
• Wing area: 84.97 m² (914.6 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 3,792 kg (8,360 lb)
• Gross weight: 6,441 kg (14,200 lb)
• Powerplant: 3 × Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior 9-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engine, 240 kW (320 hp) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 237 km/h; 128 kn (147 mph)
• Cruise speed: 211 km/h; 114 kn (131 mph)
• Stall speed: 93 km/h; 50 kn (58 mph)
• Range: 1,352 km; 730 nmi (840 mi)
• Endurance: 8hrs
• Service ceiling: 5,304 m (17,400 ft)
• Rate of climb: 1.6 m/s (310 ft/min)
• Time to altitude: 16,400 in 52 minutes

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

• Fokker F.VII/3m
• Junkers Ju52

Notes

1. Thompson, Jonathan W. (1963). Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930-1945. USA: Aero Publishers Inc. ISBN 0-8168-6500-0.

References

• Thompson, Jonathan W. (1963). Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930-1945. USA: Aero Publishers Inc. ISBN 0-8168-6500-0.