The Z.506A entered into service in 1936 with the Ala Littoria airline on routes around the Mediterranean, including those of the Rome-Syracuse-Benghaz Empire route.
The CANT Z.506 Airone (Italian: heron) was a three-engined single-plane seaplane produced from 1935 onwards by the Italian aircraft manufacturer Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico - CANT. It was used as a transport and mail plane on the Ala Littoria airlines.
During the Second World War it was used as reconnaissance aircraft, torpedo bomber and sea rescue aircraft by the Italian Regia Aeronautica and Regia Marina, Aeronautica Cobelligerante del Sud, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana and the Luftwaffe.
The military version proved to be one of the best seaplanes ever built. Despite its wooden structure, it could operate in the roughest seas. A number of Z.506S sea rescue aircraft remained in service until 1959.
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