Technique
The M.416 was a classic aircraft made in mixed technique; single-engine low-wing monoplane with fixed landing gear.
The fuselage was made with a welded steel tube structure , with stringers placed on the external profile of the structure, and covered in canvas except in the front section where the engine was positioned, enclosed in a hood . On the same there was the cockpit with two seats side by side, for the student pilot and his instructor, completely closed by a Perspex dome . At the rear it ended in a traditional single fin empennage with cantilevered horizontal planes . The wing , of entirely metallic construction, was made in a single piece, with a two-spar structure , and was positioned low and cantilevered .
The landing gear was a fixed bicycle, with shock-absorbed front elements, integrated at the rear by a "directional" support wheel. Propulsion was entrusted to a Lycoming O-435 , an air-cooled 6-cylinder opposed engine capable of delivering a maximum power of 190 hp (142 kW ) at 2,500 rpm which was combined with a two- bladed wooden propeller fixed pitch
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The specimens still in flight conditions concluded their operational career by being sold by the Italian air force to various flying clubs in the national territory.
In the immediate period following the end of the Second World War, the M.416 covered the need for a new training aircraft for the first period flight schools
Propulsion was entrusted to a Lycoming O-435 , an air-cooled 6-cylinder opposed engine capable of delivering a maximum power of 190 hp (142 kW ) at 2,500 rpm.