Costruzioni Meccaniche Aeronautiche SA; previously SA
Industrie Aeromarittime Gallinari; established 1922
at Marina di Pisa as Societa di Costruzioni di Pisa to
license-build Dornier Wal flying-boats. Title CMASA
adopted in 1930; became subsidiary of Fiat same
year. Production included G.8 two-seat aerobatic training/
touring biplane (1934); M.F.4 radial-engined flying-boat (1933); M.F.5 (development of Wal); M.F.6 two-seat
fighter/reconnaissance floatplane; M.F.10 two-seat
fighter/reconnaissance shipborne flying-boat (1935); BGA
twin-engined floatplane/bomber (1936); and twin-engined,
twin-float R.S.14 reconnaissance seaplane. The latter was
the most successful, serving throughout Second World
War. Assisted also in production of Fiat fighters in late
1930s/early 1940s. Activities suspended on Italian
Armistice (September 1943). The C.S. high-speed monoplane
and J.S.54 six-engined civil flying-boat were then
under development, but never produced.
