Piaggio P.6
The Piaggio P.6 was an Italian catapult-launched reconnaissance floatplane designed and built by Piaggio for the "Regia Marina" (Italian Royal Navy). Development. To meet a "Regia Marina" requirement for a two-seat catapult-launched seaplane, Piaggio produced two designs. The first, designated the P.6"bis, was a small biplane flying boat powered by a 190 kW (260 hp) Isotta Fraschini V.6 engine driving a pusher propeller. The second design designated, the P.6, was a floatplane with one large central float and two stabilising floats at the wingtips and a nose-mounted A.20 engine. Both aircraft had the same  biplane wing structure with rigid strut bracing and both were armed with a single machine gun (the flying-boat's in the bow and the floatplane's in the rear cockpit). In 1928, the P.6"ter was produced based on the P.6 floatplane with the engine boosted to 306 kW (410 hp). A production run of 15 P-6"ter" aircraft was produced for the Italian Navy where it had an unremarkable career, being used on battleships and cruisers.