Marchetti Collection

Balbo / Savoia-Marchetti
General Italo Balbo, Italian aviator, and his Savoia-Marchetti

The Minuet Dance of Long Ago Date: 18th century

Italian Savoia-Marchetti S74, long-distance commercial aircraft Date: 1938

Savoia Marchetti SM81 -seen in Spanish Civil War markings, this transport version of the SM 79 flew supplies to Italian forces in North Africa

Arturo Ferrarin and Carlo Del Prete make a non-stop flight Rome - Brazil, covering 7000 km in 44 hours, in a Savoia- Marchetti SM-64 specifically created for long flights. Date: July 1928

SIAI Marchetti SF. 260AM MM54436 - 70-36
SIAI Marchetti SF.260AM MM54436 - 70-36 (msn 264/16-19), on display at the Museo Storico dell'Aeronautica Militare. Vigna di Valle. Date: circa 2000

FALL / GREYHOUND / 1933
A group of four unnamed greyhounds standing together. Owned by Marchetti. Date: 1933

FALL / GREYHOUND / 1934
CHAMPION BRIGID OF LOUEN Owned by Mrs Marchetti. Head study. Date: 1934

FALL / GREYHOUND / 1935
CHAMPION JASMINE OF HARROWINS Owned by Mrs Marchetti. Date: 1935

FALL / GREYHOUND / 1932
CHAMPION BARMAID Owned by Mrs Marchetti. Challenge certificate winner 1933-1934. Date: 1932

SIAI Marchetti SM93 -this Italian attempt at a Ju 87 Stuka replacement used a prone pilot position and was tested by the Luftwaffe

Savoia Marchetti SM95 -Alitalia, (on the ground)

Savoia Marchetti SM84 -this flawed replacement for the SM 79 is seen here converted to a transport and flying in Hungarian markings

Balboa Formation 1931
Italo Balbo leads a formation flight of twelve flying boats across the South Atlantic from Portuguese Guinea to Natal, Brazil. Date: 5-6 January 1931

SIAI Marchetti SM92 -seen in Luftwaffe marks, this twin boom close support type failed to get into production

SIAI Marchetti SM102 (aft) parked of I-NDIA

Savoia Marchetti SM79 -Italys finest bomber of the war Fast and well armed it flew against Malta and Allied Mediterranean convoys

Savoia Marchetti SM75-ALA Littoria

Savoia Marchetti SM75 (side view, on the ground)-Ala Littoria

Savoia Marchetti S79 (side view, on the ground) of prototype I-MAGO

Savoia Marchetti S63 (forward view) on water of I-aBH

Fighting planes of the powers of Italy
One of the cheif aims in Italian aircraft development was the production of long-range bomber to dominate the Mediterranean. Date: WWII

Marchettis Restaurant Ship, Venice, California, USA
Marchettis Restaurant Ship Cabrillo, Venice, California, USA. Date: circa 1906

Savoia Marchetti S66

Savoia Marchetti SM81 Pipistrello bomber

Savoia Marchetti SM79 Sparviero bomber

Savoia Marchetti S79 bomber

Dinner Party / Marchetti
Pouring the champagne at a private dinner party

Bruno Mussolini Flies
Two Italian aircraft, one of them piloted by Bruno Mussolini, Il Duces son, fly to Brazil where they are received with great applause

Siai Marchetti
SIAI MARCHETTI Italian aeroplanes used during World War Two

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