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s Italian piston aircraft engine

The Fiat A was an air cooledradial engine with 18 cylinders developed by the Italian engineering company Fiat and produced in small numbers during World War II.

It was one of the most powerful aircraft engines produced in Italy and the culmination of series of successively larger engines developed from the A It was used as the power plant for one operational aircraft, the Fiat BRbis bomber.

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Design and development

First run in , the A was a more powerful development of the A, itself derived from the A, which powered the Breda Ba and Fiat BR It was claimed to be 50% more powerful than its antecedents and one of the most powerful engines produced by the country.

It was the largest Italian engine design of the time.

The A was an cylinder radial, consisting of two rows of nine cylinders arranged in a double star with a triple throw crankcase made of aluminium alloy. Each cylinder had the same bore as the A at &#;mm (&#;in) but an increa