Piaggio P.149

Piaggio P.149
Role Utility liaison or training monoplane
Manufacturer Piaggio Aero
Focke-Wulf
First flight 19 June 1953
Primary users German Air Force
Swissair Flying School
Number built 88 (Piaggio)
190 (Focke-Wulf)
Developed from Piaggio P.148
German Air Force Focke-Wulf built FWP.149D at Hanover Airport in 1966
Piaggio P.149E of the Swissair Flying School at Bern (Belp) airfield in 1973
Focke-Wulf FWP. 149D in Canadian civil service
P.149D

The Piaggio P.149 is a 1950s Italian utility and liaison aircraft designed and built by Piaggio. The aircraft was built under licence by Focke-Wulf in West Germany as the FWP.149D.

Development

The P.149 was developed as a four-seat touring variant of the earlier P.148. The P.149 is an all-metal, low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear with room for four or five occupants. The prototype first flew on 19 June 1953.

Only a few were sold, until the German Air Force selected the aircraft for a training and utility role. Piaggio delivered 72 aircraft to Germany, and another 190 were built in Germany by Focke-Wulf as the FWP.149D.

Operational history

The aircraft was operated by the German Air Force between 1957 and 1990.

Swissair's Flying School based at Bern (Belp) airfield used a small fleet of the type to provide primary instruction to trainee pilots.[1]

Operators

 Germany
 Israel
 Italy
 Nigeria
  Switzerland
 Tanzania
 Uganda
Ugandan Air Force[8]

Specifications (P.149D)

Data from The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 2714

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

References

  1. 1 2 Gandet 2001, pp. 42–43.
  2. Wheeler 1980, p. 1339.
  3. Piaggio P-149D
  4. "Piaggio P.149D". Israeli Airforce Website. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  5. aeroflight
  6. Wheeler 1980, p. 1359.
  7. Donald 1997, p. 735.
  8. Wheeler 1980, p. 1374.
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