Antonio Locatelli (19 April 1895 – 27 June 1936) was a pioneering Italian aviator and National Fascist Party legislator.

Giovanni Branni and Bruno Farcinelli, engineers[2]: 266, 270 ), he left Pisa, Italy, on 25 July 1924, heading west.

Locatelli's attempt came to an end on 21 August when heavy fog forced a landing 120 miles short of Greenland.

Four days earlier, he had met up with the American team led by Lowell Smith, who were to be ultimately successful in setting the record, in Reykjavík, and had intended to accompany them on the circumnavigation.

[2]: 270 [1][3] It was this chance meeting which ultimately saved their lives as the Americans raised the alarm when Locatelli failed to arrive in Greenland and the USS Richmond (CL-9) found them after a search by a flotilla of craft.