Piaggio Aero
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Piaggio Aero Industries s.p.a. | |
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Type | Private |
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Founded | 1848 |
Headquarters | Genova |
Website | [http://www.piaggioaero.com/ |
Piaggio Aero Industries is an aircraft manufacturing company born from the former Rinaldo Piaggio SPA, an Italian company. The company is one of the world's oldest airplane manufacturers, and its planes have been well known from early days of aviation history. Piaggio Aero is one of the most established Italian companies, composed of two operating units based in Liguria, Italy, and it has on payroll 1.450 skilled employees. There is also two subsidiaries: Piaggio Aero France (Cannes France and Piaggio America (West Palm Beach, Florida).
[edit] Aircraft
- Piaggio P.2 (single engine low wing monoplane single seat fighter)
- Piaggio P.3 (four engine biplane night bomber)
- Piaggio P.6 (seaplane)
- Piaggio P.7 (unflown high wing monoplane for the 1929 Schneider Trophy)
- Piaggio P.8 (single engine parasol wing single seat floatplane)
- Piaggio P.9 (single engine high wing two-seat cabin monoplane)
- Piaggio P.10 (single engine three-seat biplane floatplane)
- Piaggio P.11 (licence built copy of the Blackburn Lincock)
- Piaggio P.16 (three engine heavy bomber)
- Piaggio P.23 (four engined commercial transport (a push-pull configuration, with two pusher and two tractor propellers))
- Piaggio P.23R (three engine racing monoplane)
- Piaggio P.32 (twin engine bomber)
- Piaggio P.50 (four engine heavy bomber (with two pusher and two tractor propellers))
- Piaggio P.108 (four engine heavy bomber)
- Piaggio P.111 (high altitude research aircraft)
- Piaggio P.119 (single engine single seat fighter)
- Piaggio P.136 (amphibian flying boat known as the Royal Gull in the United States)
- Piaggio P.148 (two-seat primary/aerobatic trainer)
- Piaggio P.149 (four/five-seat utility/liaison or two-seat trainer - produced in Germany as Focke-Wulf FWP-149D)
- Piaggio P.150 (two seat trainer)
- Piaggio P.166 (utility light transport known as the Albatross in South African service)
- Piaggio PD-808 (twin jet light utility transport)
- Piaggio P.180 Avanti, business aircraft
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