Aircraft engine FIAT A.80 R.C. 41

The Fiat A.80 is a twin-row, radial aircraft engine with 18 cylinders, with a max. power of 1000 HP. Before the 30’s FIAT mainly developed liquid-cooled aircraft engines so the FIAT A.74 and the FIAT A.80 have been the first high power air-cooled airplane engines produced by FIAT in the 30’s. These engines have been derived from a Pratt and Whitney model and have been then developed by FIAT with several original design improvements. Despite they have been produced in a large number up to the first part of the 40’s, due to several reasons, only few specimen survived up to nowadays. These engines have been widely used for many aircrafts up to the 40’s, mainly in military aircrafts. The FIAT A.80 was also employed by the Japanese imperial army that used the FIAT B.R.20 bombers during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).