05 November 1911: First flight in Italy by seaplane

(To Marina Militare)
05/11/15

Sunday - The captain GN pilot Alessandro Guidoni, takes in flight on the roadstead of Spezia a farman biplane with engine from 70 hp that had converted into a seaplane "after unsuccessful trials and some bathroom" (as he will say) applying two cylindrical floats fitted of hydrodynamic fins.

It is the first flight in Italy of a seaplane.