Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A. was founded in 1998, when a consortium led by Piero Ferrari (of the famous automotive family and current Vice President of Ferrari S.p.A.) acquired the aeronautical and ...

Piaggio Aero Industries’ P180 Avanti was first certified in 1990, but as the company struggled financially during the ensuing decade, the plane failed to gain favor among business fliers. Piaggio ...

Piaggio Aero – the Italian aircraft manufacturer part-owned by Abu Dhabi investment house Mubadala - has signed a contract at for the sale of two P.180 Avanti II aircraft plus 8 options with SR Jet, ...

The United Arab Emirates Air Force has selected the P180 Avanti II aircraft as part of a fleet expansion programme to include two light multi-utility aircraft. The Italian turboprop has been chosen ...

It has been a tough decade for Piaggio and the P180 Avanti. Deliveries of the iconic twin-pusher – which emerged in the late 1980s and is now in its third iteration, the Evo – have fallen from their ...

Piaggio says a failure of European manufacturers to bring to the market an affordable medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air vehicle opens the door for its P.1HH Hammerhead to be the MALE ...

If you think private jet (ie an aircraft driven by a turbofan or turbojet) when you think about a private plane, think again. The Avanti Evo is the latest twin turboprop aircraft from Italian ...

Piaggio insists that it will keep producing the Avanti, while admitting that product support needs to improve. Piaggio is assuring operators of its Avantis that it will continue to support those ...