title: CANT 26
text: # CANT 26
  
  The CANT 26 was an Italian two-seat biplane trainer built by CANT.
  
  ## Design and development
  
  The CANT 26 was an unusual product of CANT as it was a landplane. It was a two-seat biplane with tailwheel landing gear and powered by a 60 kW (80 hp) engine. Only seven examples were built, one of which competed in the Challenge 1929 trials, and another of which was temporarily converted into a seaplane. One plane was registered in Argentina as R-183 and it was later sold to an Italian citizen resident in Paraguay, Nicola Bo in 1932. He sold it to the Paraguayan Military Air Arm. It received the serial T-6 and it was used as a liaison aircraft during the Chaco War. It was destroyed in a fatal accident during the war on May 5, 1933, killing Capt. José D. Jara (pilot) and Lt. Niemann (passenger).
  
  ## Operators
  
  ### Paraguay
  
  * Paraguayan Air Force
  
  ## Specifications
  
  Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: 2
  * Length: 7 m (23 ft 0 in)
  * Wingspan: 10 m (32 ft 10 in)
  * Height: 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in)
  * Wing area: 26.2 $m^2$ (282 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 370 kg (816 lb)
  * Gross weight: 650 kg (1,433 lb)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Isotta Fraschini Asso 80 6-cyl air-cooled in-line piston engine, 60 kW (80 hp)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propeller
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 150 km/h (93 mph, 81 kn)
  * Stall speed: 62 km/h (39 mph, 33 kn)
  * Range: 810 km (500 mi, 440 nmi)
  * Service ceiling: 3,800 m (12,500 ft)
  * Wing loading: 25 $kg/m^2$ (5.1 lb/sq ft)
  * Power/mass: 0.238 kW/kg (0.145 hp/lb)
  