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Piaggio Aerospace Piaggio P.180 Avanti
Role Executive transport
National origin Italy
Manufacturer Piaggio Aero
First flight 23 September 1986
Introduction 30 September 1990
Status In production
Primary users Italian Air Force
Italian Army
Italian Navy
Avantair
Produced 1986–present
Number built 246 (Dec 2020)
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Piaggio P.180 Avanti
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. The Avanti seats up to nine people in a pressurized cabin and may be flown by one or two pilots. The design is of three-surface configuration, having both a small forward wing and a conventional tailplane, as well as its main wing, with the main wing spars passing behind the passenger cabin area.
A 1980s wave of new-generation planes, developed to appeal to Fortune 500 clients, included Piaggio's Avanti and Beech Aircraft Corp.'s very similar Starship. Engineering studies for the airplane that would eventually be named Avanti began in 1979 and designs were tested in wind tunnels in Italy and the United States in 1980 and 1981, conducted by Professor Jan Roskam from the University of Kansas (using Wichita State University's wind tunnel and Boeing's transonic wind tunnel in Seattle) along with Professor Gerald Gregorek at Ohio State University (using OSU's 2D pressure wind tunnel).
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The Avanti's counter-rotating turboprop engines are placed on a mid-set, high-aspect-ratio wing located just behind the cabin. The three-surface design incorporates both a T-tail and a pair of small, fixed forewings having slight anhedral and landing flaps. On the Avanti II these flaps automatically deploy in concert with the main wing flaps. This reduces the load on the tailplane, even when the flaps are deployed, by reducing the pitch-down moment created by the deployment of the main wing flaps. This in turn allows the size of both the tailplane and the main wing to be reduced This particular three-lifting-surface configuration was patented in 1982.
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Piaggio P.180 Avanti
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Piaggio P.180 Avanti
General Info
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- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 7–9
- Length: 14.4 m (47.3 ft)
- Wingspan: 14.0 m (46.0 ft)
- Height: 4.0 m (13.0 ft)
- Wing area: 16.0 m2 (172 sq ft)
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- Empty weight: 3,799 kg (8,375 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 5,488 kg
- Fuel capacity: 1,271 kg (2,802 lb)
- Max landing weight: 5,216 kg
- Max zero-fuel weight: 4,445 kg
- Cabin: 17.5 feet (5.3 m) long, 5.8 feet (1.8 m) high, 6.1 feet (1.9 m) wide (3.5 ft floor)
- Foreplane area: 2.19 m² (23.59 ft²)
- Horizontal stabilizer area: 3.83 m²
- Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66B turboprop, 630 kW (850 shp) each ISA+28C Flat Rated
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Performance
- Maximum speed: 740 km/h (460 mph, 400 kn) FL310 high speed cruise
- Cruise speed: 589 km/h (366 mph, 318 kn) FL410 long range cruise
- Minimum control speed: 190 km/h (120 mph, 100 kn) Vmca
- Range: 2,800 km (1,740 mi, 1,510 nmi) 4 passengers, NBAA IFR, 100-nm alternate
- Ferry range: 2,830 km (1,760 mi,
- Service ceiling: 12,000 m (41,000 ft)
- Time to altitude: 10 min to FL 250
Armament
- Guns: Provision for two 12.7 mm M2 Browning or two 30mm DEFA cannon in under wing pods
- Hardpoints: 6 with a capacity of Up to 1,815 kg (4,001 lb) of weapons
- Rockets: pods for Zuni or SNEB unguided rockets.
- Missiles: AIM-9 Sidewinder or R.550 Magic air-to-air missiles
- Bombs: general-purpose bombs
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Piaggio P.180 Avanti
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