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Fleet list of Società Anonima di Navigazione Aerea – SANA (1925-1934)

Fleet list of Società Anonima di Navigazione Aerea – SANA
(1925-1934)

Abbreviations:

b/u = Broken up
Canx = cancelled from the register
c/n = Constructor’s Number
dbr = Destroyed beyond repair
f.u. = Fate unknown
In = Date aircraft was taken in use / or registered
Regn = Registration
wfu = Withdrawn from use

 

The company was formed on January 19, 1925 as a subsidiary of the Società Anonima Italiana Constrizioni Meccaniche – SAICM and the Banca Commerciale Italiano. Operated air service by Dornier flying boats across the Mediterranean and along the Italian coast. Taken over by the State-owned airline company Società Aerea Mediterranea – SAM (later Ala Littoria).

We would be interested to know the fate of the different aircraft. When were they withdrawn from use or cancelled?

 

Type Regn. Fleet- c/n In Fate
  number
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-DAUR I 28 27.2.26 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-DEAR 1 III 30 27.2.26 1.29 crashed
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-DOAR IV 31 1.4.26 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-DAER II 29 3.4.26 3.1.30 lost at sea
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-DAOK V 39 8.11.26 (1)
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AYZZ VII 50 11.1.27 .32 canx
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AYZY VI 49 7.2.27 .32 canx.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZDI VIII 81 7.8.27 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZDL IX 82 9.10.27 f.u.
Dornier Do.R4 Superwal I-RIDE 142 2.28 12-13.4.29 burnt out
Dornier Do.R4 Superwal I-RENE 141 2.28 f.u.
Dornier Do.R4 Superwal I-REOS 144 3.28 8.34 to Ala Littoria SA as I-REOS
Dornier Do.R4 Superwal I-RATA 145 .28 11.8.33 crashed
Dornier Do.R4 Superwal I-RONY 170 .28 21.11.30 crashed
Dornier Do.R4 Superwal I-RUDO 171 .28 8.34 to Ala Littoria SA as I-RONY
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZDZ X 91 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZEA XI 92 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZEB XII 93 7.6.30 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZEC XIV 94 16.6.30 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-DEAR 2 144 8.30 8.34 to Ala Littoria as I-DEAR
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZED 106 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZEF 255 .31 (2)
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZER 256 .31 (2)
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-AZDQ 120 1.32 f.u.
Dornier Wal-Cabina I-CITO 126 3.6.32 f.u.
Dornier Do.X I-REDI 2 28.8.31 not taken up, to MM.182
Dornier Do.X I-ABBN 3 13.5.32 not taken up, to MM.208

(1)     C/n reported as 58 as well. C/n 39 most likely to be correct.
(2)     Believed to have been delivered in 1931.