The FIAT A 80 is a twin-row, radial aircraft engine with 18 cylinders, with a max. power of 1000 hp. Before the 1930’s FIAT mainly developed liquid-cooled aircraft engines so the FIAT A 74 and the FIAT A 80 have been the first high power air-cooled airplane engines produced by FIAT. These engines, produced in vaious versions, have been derived from a Pratt and Whitney model and have been then developed by FIAT with several original design improvements. Despite they have been produced in a large number up to the first part of the 1940’s, due to several reasons, only few specimen survived up to nowadays. These engines have been widely used for many Italian military aircrafts up to the 1940’s. The FIAT A 80 was also employed by the Japanese imperial army that used the FIAT B.R.20 bombers during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Before the war few exemples have been also used in some liner aircrafts.

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