The CANT 26 was an Italian two-seat

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trainer built by

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Design and development

The CANT 26 was an unusual product of CANT as it was a landplane. It was a two-seat biplane with

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and powered by a 60 kW (80 hp)

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. Only seven examples were built, one of which competed in the

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trials, and another of which was temporarily converted into a

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. One plane was registered in Argentina as R-183 and it was later sold to an Italian citizen resident in Paraguay, Nicola Bo in 1932. He sold it to the Paraguayan Military Air Arm. It received the serial T-6 and it was used as a

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during the Chaco War. It was destroyed in a fatal accident during the war on May 5, 1933, killing Capt. José D. Jara (pilot) and Lt. Niemann (passenger).

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CANT 26 The CANT 26 was an Italian two-seat biplane Trainer (aircraft), trainer built by Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini, CANT. Design and development The CANT 26 was an unusual product of CANT as it was a landplane. It was a two-seat biplane wi ...

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