Piaggio P-180 Avanti plane

The P180 Avanti II is Piaggio Aero’s flagship product. It is the world’s fastest turboprop business aircraft. It offers customers the speed of a light jet aircraft, the comfort of a large, quiet, midsize cabin, and fuel efficiencies that are nearly 40% higher than most business jets and 25% higher than the most efficient twin turboprops.

The P180 Avanti II is the culmination of an effort by Piaggio Aero engineers to design, without compromise, an aircraft to meet the objectives of jet-like speed, a wide-body, stand-up cabin, and turboprop efficiency. After an intensive aerodynamic analysis and thousands of hours of wind tunnel testing, Piaggio engineers concluded that these goals could not be achieved utilizing conventional aircraft configurations.

Thus the P180 design evolved to include the following:

• PIAGGIO’s patented Three-Lifting-Surface Configuration (3LSC), which permits a 34-percent reduction in total wing area over conventional designs, thereby reducing weight and drag;

• A non-cylindrical, low-drag fuselage shapedeveloped through extensive wind tunnel testing to allow a large cabin cross section without a large drag penalty;

While its surface appearance is radically different from other aircraft, there is much to the
P.180 that pilots and maintenance personnel will find conventional and familiar:

• Well known and widely used systems;
• 95-percent aluminium construction;
• Conventional flight controls.

Thanks to this unique combination of the innovative and the conventional, you can enjoy the P.180’s exhilarating performance and exceptional comfort, while flying with confidence in the Avanti II’s proven technologies and systems.

As you read through the following aircraft specifications, you will reach the inevitable conclusion. The Avanti II offers more performance, more comfort and greater efficiency at a lower price than any other business aircraft available today.