Macchi M.16


The Macchi M.16 was a light, single-seat aircraft designed by Alessandro Tonini and produced by Macchi in Italy in 1919.

Design and development

The M.16 was a single-bay biplane with unstaggered wings and a largely conventional design except for an unusually deep fuselage that extended in a bulge below the lower wing. The M.16 was developed in parallel with the Macchi M.20, a two-seat civil trainer aircraft which it resembled and with which it shared many common features.
The M.16 proved a successful sporting type, setting an altitude record of 3,770 m in 1920 while competing for the Coppa Mappelli, and winning first prize in the competition in 1921.
The United States Navy purchased three float-equipped examples for evaluation as communication floatplanes.

Operators

  • Private users
  • United States Navy
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    Specifications