Private company

Aerfer

Aircraft manufacturer in Italy

Aerfer was an Italian manufacturing company created in 1955 by the merger of IMAM and Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali. The name is a contraction of Costruzioni Aeronautiche e Ferroviarie (Aeronautical and Railway Constructions). In the 1950s and 1960s, Aerfer manufactured bodies for trolleybuses for several cities, particularly in Italy (including the Naples trolleybus system), but also some for foreign trolleybus systems, such as those of Mexico City and Istanbul, Turkey.2 It is part of Finmeccanica.1 It ceased to exist in 1969.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1955Founded1
  • HeadquartersNaples1
  • Legal formjoint-stock company1

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Aerfer was an Italian manufacturing company created in 1955 by the merger of IMAM and Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali. The name is a contraction of Costruzioni Aeronautiche e Ferroviarie (Aeronautical and Railway Constructions).2

Products and brands

SAI.7 (1939) Single propeller engine single-seat racing aircraft

SAI.7T (1943) Single propeller engine two-seat training aircraft

S.7 (1949) Single propeller engine two-seat touring aircraft

Supersette (1951) Single propeller engine two-seat trainer/racing aircraft

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Sagittario (1953) Single jet engine adaptation of S.7 aircraft, with wooden wings and tail surfaces

Aerfer Sagittario 2 (1956) All-metal development of Sagittario; broke sound barrier

Aerfer Ariete (1958) Development of Sagittario 2 with additional jet engine for climb and speed

Aerfer Leone (1959) Proposed development of Sagittario 2 with additional rocket engine for climb and speed (not built)

From Wikipedia’s article on Aerfer, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1969Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1955Founded Founded1

Sources

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