The single engine,
high wing Moskalyev SAM-5bis-2 was a 1934 light transport developed into four different types, of which the SAM-14 was the penultimate. Apart from having a more powerful,
inline engine, it was similar to the original. It had the same
high-set two spar,
cantilever wing as the SAM-5bis-2, with ply-skin ahead of the forward spar forming a torsion resistant box. The whole surface, including the ply-skinned
leading edge, was
fabric covered. The SAM-14's wings had
Kalman flaps. It was powered by a nose-mounted
Voronezh MV-4 4-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline, a licence-built
Renault 4Pei engine. The fuselage had a wooden girder structure and was
plywood-covered forward of the rear of the cabin, under the
trailing edge, and fabric covered aft. The pilot's enclosed cockpit was ahead of the wing leading edge and its five-place passenger cabin was behind him under the wing, with three windows on each side and two port side doors. Behind the cabin the fuselage was fabric covered, narrowing to the SAM-5bis-2-style tail, with a blunted triangular
fin and more rounded
rudder. A triangular plan tailplane was mounted on top of the fuselage and carried rounded, tabbed
elevators, separated for rudder movement. The SAM-14 had wide-splayed cantilever
landing gear, each side with a landing leg and drag
strut within a common fairing. The few photographs show it on short main skis and a tail ski. ==Operational history==