CANT 35

CANT

Industry	Aviation
Founded	1930
Headquarters	Italy
Products	Aircraft

The CANT 35 was an Italian reconnaissance flying boat constructed by CANT during the early 1930s.

Design and development

Conceived as a wooden biplane seaplane, the CANT 35 featured folding wings for ease of storage. Its upper wing was distinctively equipped with Handley Page-type leading-edge slats. Defensive armament included two 7.7 mm machine guns positioned in separate gunner stations—one located centrally and another at the front. For offensive capabilities, the aircraft was designed to carry bombs on underwing racks and was fitted with photographic equipment to fulfill reconnaissance roles.

This model emerged in response to a 1930 specification aimed at providing aircraft for certain units of the Regia Marina, notably for the heavy cruisers of the Trento class and the seaplane tender Giuseppe Miraglia. Engineer Raffaele Conflenti developed a biplane flying boat with a central hull, which was acquired on October 24, 1930, at a cost of 402,000 lire and assigned the military serial MM.154. The aircraft was temporarily relocated to Lisbon on December 21, 1931, before undertaking its maiden flight on May 18, 1932. Despite this, no further development followed, and the sole prototype was lost in an accident on June 23, six years later.