The Ro.26 was a biplane trainer aircraft with equal-span
wings with a slight upward cant. The wings and
tail section were of all-wooden construction and covered with
canvas. The fuselage was of all-metal construction, built with
autogenously welded steel tubes. The aircraft had fixed, wide-track rear tricycle landing gear with oil-elastic
shock absorbers. A pair of floats could replace the landing gear in order to transform the aircraft into a floatplane. The open
cockpits were arranged in tandem, with the instructor placed in the first cockpit, accessible from a door positioned on the right side of the fuselage. The pilot in the forward cockpit could engage and disengage the flight controls in flight at will. The Alfa Romeo Lynx seven-cylinder, air-cooled engine was rated at and drove a
helical wooden two-bladed propeller that was in diameter. ==Operational history==