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The Piaggio P.180 Avanti is an executive/VIP light transport aircraft, designed by Piaggio Aero and built in Italy. It features twin, wing-mounted turboprop engines, in a pusher configuration. [2] The Avanti seats up to nine people in a pressurized cabin and may be flown by one or two pilots.
A Piaggio P.149 A Piaggio P.166 in flight. The Rinaldo Piaggio S.p.A company was founded in Sestri Ponente, Genoa, Italy in 1884. [1] Originally, the company was involved in the outfitting of ocean liners and the manufacturing of rolling stock for the developing Italian railway infrastructure around the turn of the century.
Avantair operated a fleet of Piaggio P180 Avanti aircraft. Avantair was an aircraft fractional ownership company, headquartered at Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A..Avantair provided fractional ownership, leasing and time card options within a fleet of twin-turboprop-engined P.180 aircraft.
Piaggio P.180 Avanti; Piaggio PD.808; Media in category "Piaggio aircraft" This category contains only the following file. Piaggio P.119 fighter prototype.jpg 380 × ...
Piaggio P.136 1948 amphibious transport, 63 built; Dinfia IA 45 Querandi 1957 5/6 seater, 2 built; Piaggio P.166 1957 transport, 145 built; AAC Angel, 1984 transport, 4 built; Piaggio P.180 Avanti 1986 executive transport, 216+ built; Mc Donnel Douglas MD-80 1987 Liner experimental Propfan; EM-11 Orka 2003 4 seat transport, 5 built
A Piaggio P.180 Avanti showing its three lifting surfaces. A three-surface aircraft or sometimes three-lifting-surface aircraft has a foreplane, a central wing and a tailplane. The central wing surface always provides lift and is usually the largest, while the functions of the fore and aft planes may vary between types and may include lift ...
Societa Anonima Piaggio / Industrie Aeronautiche e Meccaniche Rinaldo Piaggio SpA) ... Piaggio P.166 Albatross; Piaggio P.180 Avanti; Piaggio PD.1 (Ing. Corradino D ...
He returned to San Diego, then flew the same course as co-pilot for fellow adventurer Joe Ritchie in Ritchie's turboprop Piaggio Avanti. Their time was 3 hours, 51 minutes, 52 seconds, an average speed of 546.44 mph (879.41 km/h), which broke the previous turboprop transcontinental record held by Chuck Yeager and Renald Davenport. [32] [33]