In the mid-1960s, SIAI-Marchetti developed a five-seater aircraft from its S.205 four-seater light aircraft, substantially similar but with a more powerful engine. The prototype of this new aircraft, called S.208, flew for the first time on May 22, 1967. Monoplane, single-engine low-wing of all metal construction was mass-produced from the spring of 1968 and in the first five years about eighty, of which more than half intended for the Air Force in the S.208M version (aeronautical nomenclature U-208A) which used it for connection and training. Other civil tasks assigned to this light aircraft were, marginally, the health one, the freight transport one and finally the agricultural one in the S.208AG version. The version intended for the Armed Force, differed from the civilian version for the modified on-board instrumentation, two doors for the pilot station, the possibility of mounting the hook for towing gliders and the lack of fuel tanks at the wing tips. It is currently used by the connecting squadrons and by the 60th Wing for towing gliders.
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