Piaggio P.149
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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.[1] The prototype first flew on 19 June 1953.[2]
Only a few were sold, until the German Air Force selected the aircraft for a training and utility role. Piaggio delivered 76 aircraft out of a total of 88 built in Italy to Germany, while another 190 were built in Germany by Focke-Wulf.[2][3]
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.[3]
Operators
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- Italian Air Force operated two Piaggio P.149Ds from 1953 until 1955[7]
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- Nigerian Air Force operated 12 Piaggo P.149D in 1967[8]
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- Ugandan Air Force[10]
Specifications (P.149D)
See also
Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Citations
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- ↑ Stevens 1958, p. 73
- ↑ a b Simpson 1995, p. 279
- ↑ a b c Gandet 2001, pp. 42–43.
- ↑ Wheeler 1980, p. 1339.
- ↑ Piaggio P-149D
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- ↑ Donald 1997, p. 735.
- ↑ Wheeler 1980, p. 1374.
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References
- Donald, David. The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Leicester, UK: Blitz Editions, 1997. Template:ISBN.
- Gandet, Erich. "'Wulf' in Sheep's Clothing: Farewell to Swissair's P.149s". Air Enthusiast. No. 92. March/April 2001. pp. 42–43. Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn"..
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 2714.
- Simpson, R. W. AirlifeTemplate:'s General Aviation. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., Second edition, 1995. Template:ISBN.
- Stevens, James Hay. "Fully Aerobatic Four-Seater". Flight, 18 July 1958, p. 73.
- Wheeler, Barry C. "World's Air Forces 1980". Flight International, 4 October 1980. pp. 1323–1378.
External links
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