Piaggio / Focke-Wulf P.149D

Piaggio's P 149 had it's maiden flight in 1953 and was designed as a five-seat multipurpose aircraft. It was demonstrated to German Military Officials at Bonn in 1955 and impressed them with it's fully aerobatic capabilities and that it was hard to stall. As a consequence, an order for a total of 270 airlanes was signed. 194 of these aircraft were to be built under licence by Focke-Wulf, while BMW produced the needed Lycoming engines.
Delivery of the P 149D to the Flugzeugführerschule "S" began in mai 1957. 12 of these aircraft were transferred to the Marineflieger and served as training-, light transport and liaison aircraft.
Four airframes went to MFG 5, two served as station hacks with MFG 2 and another six aircraft were owned by Nordholz based MFG 3. All of these aircraft were built by Focke-Wulf at Bremen.
P 149D served in the German military till 1990, with JaboG 49. Since then civil registred "Piggis" continue to fly with the Sprotfliegergruppen at several German Airbases.

Technical data:

 

Measures

Wingspan           : 11,12m

Length             :  8,52m

Height             :  2,85m

Weights

Weight empty       :  1160kg

max. Takeoff Weight:  1650kg

Performance

max. Speed         :  280km/h

Range              : 1050km

Serviceceiling     :15000ft

Engine

Lycoming Go-435-C2

Thrust             : 354kW