SIAI Marchetti SF 260

I’ve been researching the SIAI Marchetti SF 260 for a number of years with the intention of developing a set of highly accurate three-view scale drawings.

I discovered early on that the specifications listed by SIAI and Janes are far from accurate and often downright misleading so there’s been a lot of Columbo-like detective work. Aermacchi will not help with drawings, claiming proprietary rights, so I’ve had to do a lot of scrounging.

If anybody is able to help with documentation, drawings or photographs, it would be much appreciated. What I’m interested in is the bare bones or guts of the airplane – what’s hidden under the skin, the bare structure of the fuselage, wing and tailplane, including details of the control systems.

I’ve already amassed an extensive collection of data, sketches, measurements, and photographs, but there always seems to be just one more measurement, line, curve, or hidden flange, that requires confirmation, and just one more small detail that the existing photographs don’t reveal. Unfortunately, I don’t have an airframe tucked away in the garage. :)-

Help from any source would be much appreciated.