The second of five Savoia-Marchetti SM.75s purchased by Hungarian airliner Malert still in Italy at Savoia-Marchetti’s factory on Vergiate airfield waiting for delivery on Autumn 1938. This plane, civil registration HA-SMB, airframe number NC.32015, in the Royal Hungarian Air Force (Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légierő) after 1940 became the aircraft serial E.102. Victor Sierra

Waiting for delivery

One of five three engine civil airliners Savoia-Marchetti SM.75s purchased by Hungarian airline Malert in 1938 at one of Berlin Airports, Gatow or Tempelhof, before the outbreak of WW2. During the entry of Hungary in the war all the five SM.75s were transferred to Hungarian Air Force and refurbished by Manfred Weiss factory in Budapest like troop transports with French 870-HP Gnome-Rhone K.14 radial engines built by Weiss in Hungary instead the original Italian engines Alfa Romeo. Victor Sierra

Hungarian airliner at Berlin

A transport plane Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 of Royal Hungarian Air Force (Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légierő). In particular is the former HA-SMA of civil airline Malert transferred to Hungarian Air Force with the military code E.101 for use like military transport. Victor Sierra