Fiat Aviazione

Fiat Aviazione was the aircraft making arm of the Italian Fiat group, based in Turin and focused mainly on military aviation. Its Wikipedia article dates Fiat aero engine work to 1908 and says the Societa Italiana Aviazione was founded in 1916 and renamed Fiat in 1918. It is best remembered for the Fiat CR.32 and CR.42 biplane fighters of the 1930s, the G.50 and G.55 fighters, the BR.20 bomber and, in the 1950s, the G.91 light ground attack plane, which became a NATO standard light fighter with over 700 built. In 1969 Fiat Aviazione merged with Aerfer to form Aeritalia, later Alenia Aeronautica. The Fiat aero engine side continued and was renamed Fiat Avio in 1989.