Macchi M.9

The Macchi M.9 was an enlarged version of the two-seat Macchi M.8 patrol flying boat, using the 300hp Fiat A-12bis engine. Several hundred were planned, but only thirty were completed and sixteen delivered by the Armistice. The design included full wireless equipment, a machine gun, camera, and bomb load, including provisionally two spherical anti-submarine mines. After the war it served as a civilian transport.